Maidan or Meidan or Maydan are the transcriptions for Persian terms (Persian: ميدان) or (Persian: مى دان). The Persian term consists of the word (Persian: مي, mai) for wine or Rose water and suffix for place or bowl (Persian: دان, dan). Maidan also means Cup of Wine or Jam e May oder badeh. Jam e Jam means Cup of Jamshid.
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Other terms for wine in Persian or Dari:
Persian suffix dan
Maidan means wine cup. Maidan means also means place, space, location and location of pleasure or happiness. May i Nab or Mei e Nab (Persian: مى ناب) is a term for Persian literature and poetry. This term was used by the Persian poet like Hafez , Khayyam, Rumi, Abdul-Qādir Bīdel, Amir Khusrow.
Ancient Iran
The four big festivals (Nowruz, Mehregan, Tirgan and Yalda) in ancient Indo-Iran were celebrated with May in large squares and parks. These celebrations were drunk wine and rose water sprayed. Even today - after the Islamization is still on the Sofreh e Nowruzi (Nowruztable) of the Haft-Seen (Persian: هفت سين) Serkeh (vinegar) and Haft Mewa (Persian: هفت ميوه)(Seven varieties of dried fruit like Raisin, Apricot etc. are inserted into the water days before the Nauroz) in Iran and Afghanistan. The term "Maidan" was mentioned in 1647 by Adam Olearius for the first time. Johann Christoph and Beer Olfert Dapper [1681] in Nürnberg have also written about Maidan in ancient Iran. Maidan is also called racetrack (horses). Edward Henry Palmer (1883) has Maidan translated as Hippodrome.
Many festivities were celebrated in Naqsh-e Rustam, Maidan-e Rostam or Rustam Maidan in Shiraz and Kabul, Balkh and Zabul. Rustam was a great hero and rider in the Iranian mythology in Persian.
Maidan can with the court places the Theatre of Dionysus as the wine festivals compare before Islamisierunng in Iranian Culture Area. Also in the maidans were making music and danced and songs presented like Nowruz's satire herald Hajji Firuz(Persian: حاجی پیروز). See too:
In fact, this is Hajji (Persian: هاجى ) as a satirist and not as pilgrims to Mecca. The celebration places were located in the open Area or center of town or at the Darbar oder Dar or Porte or court of the kings (place in center) Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi had discovered alcohol (ethanol) from Wine in its pure form, the first to produce. Wine played a major role in pre-Islamic times in Persian. After Islamization Wine plays a good role in Persian literature and poetry.