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maydān مَيْدان , var. mīdān, pl. mayādīnᵘ
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ID 845 • Sw – • BP 1661 • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√MYD
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1a square, open place, open tract; b field; arena; 2a battleground, battlefield; b combat area, fighting zone; c race course, race track; d playground (fig.); 3 field, domain, line, sphere of activity – WehrCowan1976.
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▪ (Huehnergard2011:) Engl maidan, from Ar maydān ‘city square, open space, racetrack, combat area’, from māda, vb. I, ‘to be moved, sway’.
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►maydān al-tadrīb, drill ground; military training center
►maydān al-ḥarb, theater of war
►maydān al-sibāq, race course, race track
►maydān al-ʕamal, field of activity, scope of action
►maydān al-qitāl, battlefield
►ḫaraǧa min maydān al-ʕamal, to be put out of service or commission
►ẓahara fī l-maydān, to turn up, appear on the scene
►fī maydān al-šaraf, on the field of honour
►madāfiʕ al-maydān, fieldpieces, field guns, infantry howitzers

 For other values attached to the root, cf. ↗māda, ↗mīdaẗ, ↗mīdāʔ, ↗māʔidaẗ, as well as, for the overall picture, root entry ↗√MYD.
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