maidan – English noun declension

English noun forms of maidan

Noun: maidan
Singularmaidan
Pluralmaidans; Maidans

Sample Sentences

  • Inland, the prospect alters. There is an oval maidan, and a long sallow hospital. [1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 5:]
  • Below on the amorphous brown-violet meidan by the railway station […]. [1957, Lawrence Durrell, Justine, Faber, page 84:]
  • M. Crawford
  • a gallop on the green maidan

Nouns inflected like maidan

maidan,

Etymology

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. See: Latin Nouns 'medius'.