# maidan

> English word · Noun · IPA /maɪˈdɑːn/ · frequency rank #43,248

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

## 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.

## Easily confused with
- **main** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/maidan-vs-main)
- **Milan** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/maidan-vs-milan)
- **Mazda** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/maidan-vs-mazda)
- **maids** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/maidan-vs-maids)
- **Mayan** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/maidan-vs-mayan)
- **Midas** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/maidan-vs-midas)
- **maiden** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/maidan-vs-maiden)
- **Marian** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/maidan-vs-marian)
- **Maison** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/maidan-vs-maison)
- **mayday** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/maidan-vs-mayday)
- **Marwan** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/maidan-vs-marwan)
- **Malian** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/maidan-vs-malian)
- **Malden** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/maidan-vs-malden)
- **mailman** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/maidan-vs-mailman)
- **maid** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/maid-vs-maidan)
- **Maia** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/maia-vs-maidan)
- **madam** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/madam-vs-maidan)
- **Mahan** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mahan-vs-maidan)
- **madden** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/madden-vs-maidan)
- **madman** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/madman-vs-maidan)

## Common misspellings (8)
`amidan`, `madian`, `maiadn`, `maidann`, `maiddan`, `maidna`, `miadan`, `mmaidan`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/maidan