medan

See also: Medan and meðan

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay medan, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos via Arabic مَيْدَان (maydān), Classical Persian میدان (maydān), or Urdu میدان (maidān).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛdan/
• Hyphenation: mè‧dan

Noun

mèdan (first-person possessive medanku, second-person possessive medanmu, third-person possessive medannya)

1. field.
   1. square, plaza, esplanade

      Synonyms: alun-alun, lapangan

   2. (figurative, physics) region affected by a particular force.
   3. (figurative, computing) area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value.
2. (figurative) field, scope

   Synonyms: lingkungan, ruang lingkup

3. (figurative) location

   Synonyms: lokasi, daerah

Further reading

• “medan” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• måddå (dialectal, North Trøndelag)

Etymology

From Old Norse meðan, from Proto-Germanic *medanō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²mɛːa(n)/, (unstressed) /mɛa(n)/

Conjunction

medan

1. while

   Kome seg heim att medan det er ljost ute.

   Get back home while it's still light out.

Synonyms

• med
• mens

Derived terms

• imedan

References

• “medan” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish mæþan, mædhan, from Old Norse meðan, from Proto-Germanic *medanō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²meːdan/

• Audio:

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Conjunction

medan

1. while; during the same time that

Anagrams

• damen, menad

Volapük

Noun

medan (nominative plural medans)

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Declension

declension of medan

	singular	plural
nominative	medan	medans
genitive	medana	medanas
dative	medane	medanes
accusative	medani	medanis
vocative 1	o medan!	o medans!
predicative 2	medanu	medanus

• ¹ status as a case is disputed
• ² in later, non-classical Volapük only