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Median
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median médian medían medián
English
Alternative forms
en Medean
Etymology
en :af Media -n + 1
Pronunciation
en /ˈmiːdɪən/
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Median.wav Southern England
Adjective
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Relating to Media or Medes. from 16th c.
9 II Lucullus seeing certaine Median men at armes, which were in the front of Tigranes Army, heavily and unweildily armed, as in an iron prison, apprehended thereby an opinion, that he might easily defeat them.
en obsolete Of laws, rules etc.: unchanging, invariable. 17th 19th c.
en 1835 w:Edgar Allan Poe King Pest ‘This proceeding,’ interposed the president, ‘is by no means in accordance with the terms of the mulct or sentence, which is in its nature Median, and not to be altered or recalled.’
en 1856 w:Richard F. Burton First Footsteps in East Africa Könemann 2000 50 And if you venture to object to these Median laws, – as I am now doing, – you elicit a chorus of disapproval, and acquire some evil name.
Translations
relating to Media or Medes
Armenian: hy մարական, hy մեդական
Catalan: ca mede m, ca mèdic m
Danish: da medisk
Finnish: fi meedialainen
German: de medisch
Irish: ga Méideach
Polish: pl medyjski
Russian: ru мидийский
Welsh: cy Medaidd
Noun
A Mede.
Translations
Mede
Proper noun
The northwestern Old Iranian language of the Medes, attested only by numerous loanwords in Old Persian, few borrowings in Old Armenian and some glosses in Ancient Greek; nothing is known of its grammar.
Synonyms
en Medic
Translations
language
Arabic: ar ميدي
Armenian: hy մարերեն, hy մեդերեն
Azerbaijani: az Midiya dili
Catalan: ca mèdic m
Czech: cs médština f
Danish: da medisk
Finnish: fi meedia
German: de Medisch n
Irish: ga Méidis f
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ckb مادی
Northern Kurdish: kmr medî
Persian: fa مادی mâdi
Polish: pl język medyjski m
Portuguese: pt língua meda
Russian: ru мидийский
Serbo-Croatian: sh Medijski jezik
Spanish: es idioma medo
Talysh: tly Midijə zyvon
Turkish: tr Medce
Ukrainian: uk Мідійська мова
Urdu: ur مادی زبان
Zazaki: zza Medki
See also
xme-old
Median
1 xme
Anagrams
en adeimn Damien Eidman Maiden Manide Medina Midean aidmen demain maenid maiden mained medina meidan
en Demonyms
German
de:
Etymology
de en median, from de la mediānus.
Pronunciation
de /meˈdi̯aːn/
de De-Median.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Noun
m
de statistics median measure of central tendency
de Medianwert Zentralwert
Declension
m
Further reading