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maidan

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6 lettersPronunciation /maɪˈdɑːn/Sorted aadimnStarts with MEnds with N0 cluesCommon crossword word
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  1. A marketplace or other open space in or by a city or town; an esplanade.

Word origin

From Hindustani میدان (medān) / मैदान (maidān), and its source, Persian میدان (meydân, maydān, “town-square or central place of gathering”), from Arabic مَيْدَان (maydān), itself an Iranian borrowing (see the Arabic entry for more), from Proto-Iranian *madyānah, from *mádyah (“middle”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *mádʰyas, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos. Compare Avestan 𐬨𐬀𐬌𐬜𐬌𐬌𐬀 (maⁱδiia), Sanskrit मध्य (madhya), Latin medius.

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  • Inland, the prospect alters. There is an oval maidan, and a long sallow hospital.
  • Below on the amorphous brown-violet meidan by the railway station […].
  • M. Crawford a gallop on the green maidan

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