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Old Ruthenian
Etymology
Borrowed from Turkic language, probably from Crimean Tatar meydan or Ottoman Turkish میدان (meydan), further borrowed from Persian میدان (meydân), borrowed from Arabic مَيْدَان (maydān), borrowed from Old Persian *madyānaʰ, from Proto-Iranian *madyānah, from *mádyah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *mádʰyas, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *mádʰyas, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos. Doublet of межа́ (mežá). Cognate with Russian майда́н (majdán) (from Middle Russian маида́нъ (maidán)). First attested in the early 1600s.
Noun
майданъ • (majdan) m inan
- public square
- a place to make or store something
Derived terms
- Майда́нъ (Majdán) (Old Ukrainian surname)
Descendants
Further reading
- Chikalo, M. I., editor (2017), “майданъ”, in Словник української мови XVI – I пол. XVII ст. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: 16ᵗʰ – 1ˢᵗ half of 17ᵗʰ c.] (in Ukrainian), numbers 17 (м – моавитѧнка), Lviv: KIUS, →ISBN, page 15
- Tymchenko, E. K. (2002) “майданъ”, in Nimchuk, V. V., editor, Матеріали до словника писемної та книжної української мови XV–XVIII ст. [Materials for the Dictionary of the Written and Book Ukrainian Language of 15ᵗʰ–18ᵗʰ cc.] (in Ukrainian), volumes 1 (А – Н), Kyiv, New York: National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S., →ISBN, page 417