maidan

n. <印> 练兵场, 操场

发音

UK /maɪˈdɑːn/
其它
UK /ˈmaɪdɑːn/
US /maɪˈdɑn/

词形变化

maidans 复数

别名

maidaun meidan meidaun midan mydan Maydan

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A marketplace or other open space in or by a city or town; an esplanade.

    M. Crawford a gallop on the green maidan

  2. 1.

    Independence Square, the main city square in Kyiv, Ukraine.

  3. 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.

词源

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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