maidan
/maɪˈdɑn/noun
maidan is spelled M-A-I-D-A-N: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 43,187th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data, counting Maidan, the name). As a noun, maidan means “A marketplace or other open space in or by a city or town; an esplanade” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of maidan is maidans.
How many letters and syllables are in maidan?
| Letters | 6: M-A-I-D-A-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 43,187th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is maidan?
Maidan appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 43,187th most frequent word form in the list. The list counts every capitalisation together, so this includes Maidan, the name.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce maidan?
- UK /maɪˈdɑːn/
- UK /ˈmaɪdɑːn/
- US /maɪˈdɑn/
Maidan has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-maidan.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with maidan?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as maidan from its last stressed vowel (/ɑn/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of maidan
- maidans plural
- maidaun
- meidan
- meidaun
- midan
- mydan
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does maidan mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 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
Independence Square, the main city square in Kyiv, Ukraine.
- 3
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.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Maidan in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense marketplace or other open space:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | meidán |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does maidan come from?
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.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).