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maidan¹

  • /maɪˈdɑːn/ UK
  • /ˈmaɪdɑːn/ UK
  • /maɪˈdɑn/ US

Rhymes with (UK) -ɑːn, (US) -ɑn

Where it comes from

From Hindustani میدان (medān) / मैदान (maidān), and its source, Persian میدان (meydân, maydān, “town-square or central place of gathering”), from Arabic مَيْدَان (maydān), itself an Iranian borrowing (see the Arabic entry for more), from Proto-Iranian *madyānah, from *mádyah (“middle”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *mádʰyas, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos. Compare Avestan 𐬨𐬀𐬌𐬜𐬌𐬌𐬀 (maⁱδiia), Sanskrit मध्य (madhya), Latin medius.

noun maidans · maidaun · meidan · meidaun · midan · mydan

  1. South Asia A marketplace or other open space in or by a city or town; an esplanade. Inland, the prospect alters. There is an oval maidan, and a long sallow hospital.

maidan²

Where it comes from

From Майда́н Незале́жності (Majdán Nezaléžnosti, “Independence Square”) in Kiev, from Ukrainian майда́н (majdán, “square”), from Ottoman Turkish میدان (meydan), from the same Persian source as above.

noun Maidan · Maidans · maidans · Maydan

  1. Independence Square, the main city square in Kyiv, Ukraine.
  2. The Orange Revolution protests that took place in Kiev’s Maidan in 2004–05; the Euromaidan protests of 2013–14; the protest movement associated with the 2014 Ukrainian Revolution.

Maidan³

proper noun

  1. abbreviation, ellipsis Ellipsis of Maidan Shahr: the capital of Maidan Wardak province, Afghanistan.

    Similar: Maidan Shar, Maidan Shahr, Shar, Shahr

  2. abbreviation, ellipsis Ellipsis of Maidan Wardak: a province of Afghanistan.

    Similar: Wardak, Wardag, Maidan Wardag, Maidan Wardak

  3. abbreviation, ellipsis Ellipsis of Euromaidan, the protests in Ukraine in 2014.

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noun marketplace or other open space

Españolmeidán
हिन्दीमैदान maidān
العربيةمَيْدَان maydān

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@misc{maidan_2026,
  title = {maidan},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/maidan},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}