ميدان

Senso (Inglese)

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

Concetti

piazza

campo

circo

sinonimi

مجال

حقل

سيرك

حلبة

ملعب

السّيرك

Traduzioni

square

Platz

place

plaça

plaza

πλατεία

field

praça

meydan

domain

alan

plein

piazza

circus

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/maj.daːn/

Etimologia (Inglese)

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”).