ميدان

Significat (Anglès)

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

Conceptes

plaça

camp

circ

Sinònims

مجال

حقل

سيرك

حلبة

ملعب

السّيرك

Traduccions

square

Platz

place

piazza

plaza

field

πλατεία

praça

alan

meydan

domain

plein

public square

μεϊντάνι

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/maj.daːn/

Etimologia (Anglès)

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”).