Arabic

Noun

مَيْدَان • ‎(maydān) m ‎(plural مَيَادِين ‎(mayādīn))

1. square
2. field, sphere

Declension

Descendants

• → Aramaic:
  • Classical Syriac: ܡܝܕܐܢ ‎(maydāʾn)
• → Azeri: meydan (or via Persian)
• → Bashkir: майҙан ‎(mayðan) (or via Persian)
• → Kiphcak:

  Armeno-Kipchak: մօյտան ‎(moydan)

  Cuman: maydan

  Mamluk-Kipchak: [Arabic needed] ‎(meydân)

• → Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: meydan

• → French: maïadan
• → Middle Armenian: մայտան ‎(maytan), մէյդան ‎(mēydan), մոյտան ‎(moytan), մօյտան ‎(mōytan), մէտան ‎(mētan) (some forms via Persian, Ottoman Turkish or another Turkic language)
  • Armenian: մեյդան ‎(meydan), մեյտան ‎(meytan) (in some dialects from Ottoman Turkish)
• → Persian: میدان ‎(meydân), میادین ‎(mayâdin)
  • Tajik: майдон ‎(maydon)
    • → Uzbek: maydon
  • → Georgian: მოედანი ‎(moedani)
  • → Hindustani:

    Urdu: میدان ‎(maidān)

    • → English: meidan / maidan
  • → Kazakh: майдан ‎(maydan)
  • → Khorezmian Turkic: ميدان ‎(mäydan)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: میدان ‎(meydân), میادین ‎(meyâdîn)
    • Turkish: meydan
    • → Crimean Tatar: meydan
    • → Czech: mejdan
    • → Greek: μεϊντάνι ‎(meïntáni)
    • → Serbo-Croatian: mègdān / мѐгда̄н, mèjdān / мѐјда̄н
    • → Tatar: мәйдан ‎(mäydan)
  • → Uyghur: مەيدان ‎(meydan)
• → Russian: майданъ ‎(majdan), маидан ‎(maidan), мойданъ ‎(mojdan), майда́н ‎(majdán) (via a Kipchak Turkic language)
  • → Buryat: майдаан ‎(majdaan)
• → Ukrainian: майда́н ‎(majdán) (via a Kipchak Turkic language)
  • → Belarusian: майда́н ‎(majdán)
  • → Polish: majdan
• → Spanish: almidana

References

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “meydan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Lokotsch, Karl (1927) Etymologisches Wörterbuch der europäischen Wörter orientalischen Ursprungs (in German), Heidelberg: Carl Winter’s Universitätsbuchhandlung, page 108b