noun, masculineplural: meidanes
meidán is masculine in Spanish.
maidan (marketplace or other open space, especially in Islamic countries)
“Como en todas las principales ciudades de Oriente, hay en Teherán una espaciosa plaza Mayor ó Meidán, que se llama la Meidanshay, esto es el plaza Real, donde más que en ningún otro punto de la ciudad se manifiestan los caracteres […]” — As is the case for all the principal cities of the Orient, there is in Tehran a spacious Main or Maidan square, which is called the Meidanshay. This is the Royal square, in which are manifest, more than in any other part of the city, the characters […]