different between maida vs maidan

English

Etymology

From Hindi ???? (maid?), from Classical Persian ????? (maida).

Noun

maida (uncountable)

1. A finely milled, refined and bleached wheat flour, used in making many Indian foods like samosa, chakli and bhatoora.

Anagrams

• Amida

English

Alternative forms

• meidan

Etymology 1

From Hindi ????? (maid?n)/Urdu ?????? (maid?n), and its source, Persian ?????? (meydân, “town-square or central place of gathering”), from Arabic ????????? (mayd?n), itself an Iranian borrowing (see the Arabic entry for more), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *méd?yos. Compare Avestan ????????????????????????????? (maⁱ?iia), Sanskrit ???? (madhya), Latin medius.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ma??d??n/, /?ma?d??n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ma??d?n/

Noun

maidan (plural maidans)

1. (chiefly South Asia) A marketplace or other open space in or by a city or town; an esplanade. [from 16th c.]
   • 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin 2005, p. 5:

     Inland, the prospect alters. There is an oval maidan, and a long sallow hospital.

   • 1957, Lawrence Durrell, Justine, Faber, page 84:

     Below on the amorphous brown-violet meidan by the railway station […].

   • M. Crawford

     a gallop on the green maidan

Alternative forms

• meidan

Translations

References

• “maidan”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).
• “maidan”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “maidan” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2021.

Etymology 2

From ??????? ????????????? (Majdán Nezaléžnosti, “Independence Square”) in Kiev, from Ukrainian ??????? (majdán, “square”), from Ottoman Turkish ?????? (meydan), from the same Persian source as above.

Alternative forms

• Maydan

Noun

Maidan (plural Maidans or maidans)

1. Independence Square, the main city square in Kiev, Ukraine. [from 1993]
2. The Orange Revolution protests that took place in Kiev’s Maidan in 2004–05; the Euromaidan protests of 2013–14; the protest movement associated with the 2014 Ukrainian Revolution.

Related terms

• anti-maidan, antiMaidan
• AutoMaidan
• Euromaidan, EuroMaidan

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:maidan.

Further reading

• Maidan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Maidan in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• Aminda, Dai Nam, Damian, aidman

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ?????? (meydan, “square, open space”), from Persian ?????? (meydân), from Arabic ????????? (mayd?n).

Noun

maidan n (plural maidane)

1. open space

Declension

Derived terms

• maidanez