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name
Ellipsis of Maidan Shahr: the capital of Maidan Wardak province, Afghanistan.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
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Synonyms: Maidan Shar, Maidan Shahr, Shar, Shahr
Antonyms: none provided
name
Ellipsis of Maidan Wardak: a province of Afghanistan.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
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Synonyms: Wardak, Wardag, Maidan Wardag, Maidan Wardak
Antonyms: none provided
name
Ellipsis of Euromaidan, the protests in Ukraine in 2014.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
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noun
A marketplace or other open space in or by a city or town; an esplanade.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: South-Asia
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noun
Independence Square, the main city square in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
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.
From Майда́н Незале́жності (Majdán Nezaléžnosti, “Independence Square”) in Kiev, from Ukrainian майда́н (majdán, “square”), from Ottoman Turkish میدان (meydan), from the same Persian source as above.
Across languages
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