ميدان

Betekenis (Engels)

square (open space in a city)
battlefield
field, sphere (e.g. of study)

مجال

حقل

السّيرك

πλατεία

Frekwensie

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/maj.daːn/

An Iranian borrowing; ultimately from Proto-Iranian *mádyanah (“middle”, noun), from *mádyah (“middle”, adjective) + *-nah (nominal suffix). Compare Middle Persian mdyʾn' (*mayān, “middle; among, between”), whence Persian میان (miyân)), Parthian mdyʾn (*maẟyān, “among, amid, between”), Sogdian [script needed] (myẟʾn /⁠*mēẟan⁠/, “middle”), Avestan 𐬨𐬀𐬌𐬜𐬌𐬌𐬁𐬥𐬀 (maⁱδiiāna, “middle”).