# middle
## English
### Alternative forms

* myddle (obsolete)

### Etymology

From Middle English middel, from Old English middel (“middle, centre, waist”), from Proto-Germanic *midlą, *midilą, *medalą (“middle”), a diminutive of Proto-Germanic *midjō (“middle, midst”) (compare *midjaz (“mid, middle”, adjective)), from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between, in the middle, middle”).
Cognate with West Frisian middel, Dutch middel, German mittel (“middle”, adjective), German Mittel (“middle, means”, noun), Danish middel (“means, agent, medicine; middle/medium”). Related also to Swedish medel (“means, medium”), Icelandic meðal (“means, medicine”). See also mid.

### Pronunciation

* (US) IPA: /ˈmɪdəl/, [ˈmɪ.ɾɫ̩]
* Audio (US):(file)
* (UK) IPA: /ˈmɪdəl/, [ˈmɪ.dəɫ], [ˈmɪ.dʊ]
* (General Australian) IPA: /ˈmɪdəl/, [ˈmɪ̝.dəɫ], [ˈmɪ̝.dʊ], [ˈmɪ̝.ɾ-]
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* (New Zealand) IPA: /ˈmɘdɘl/, [ˈmə.dɯ(ɫ)], [ˈmə.ɾ-]
* Rhymes: -ɪdəl

### Noun

middle (plural middles)
* A centre, midpoint.
    The middle of a circle is the point which has the same distance to every point of circle.
* The part between the beginning and the end.
    I woke up in the middle of the night.
    In the middle of the marathon, David collapsed from fatigue.
** 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.
* (cricket) The middle stump.
* The central part of a human body; the waist.
** 2012, Caroline Moore, Fasting In A Fast World:If I have a diet plan and stick to it, it is easy for me to have control over my middle.
* (grammar) The middle voice.
* (politics) the center of the political spectrum.
    As part of his successful re-election strategy, Clinton began governing from the middle.

#### Synonyms

* (centre): centre, center, midpoint; see also Thesaurus:midpoint
* (part between the beginning and the end): centre, center, midst

#### Translations

Afrikaans: midde
Aklanon: tunga'
Albanian: mes (sq) m , midis (sq)
Arabic: مُنْتَصَف m (muntaṣaf), وَسَط m (wasaṭ)
Armenian: մեջտեղ (hy) (meǰteġ), կենտրոն (hy) (kentron)
Aromanian: njadzã f, nolgic n, nolgiuc, njilgioc, mesi f, mese (roa-rup) f
Assamese: মাজ (maz)
Asturian: mediu (ast) m
Avar: цӏцӏороб (ccʼorob)
Azerbaijani: orta (az)
Bashkir: урта (urta)
Basque: erdi
Belarusian: сярэдзі́на f (sjaredzína), сяро́дак m (sjaródak)
Bengali: মধ্য (bn) (moddho)
Bikol Central: tahaw (bcl)
Bulgarian: среда (bg) f (sreda), център (bg) m (centǎr)
Burmese: အလယ် (my) (a.lai)
Catalan: mig (ca) m
Cebuano: tunga
Cherokee: ᎠᏰᏟ (ayetli)
Cheyenne: sétóve
Chinese:
Eastern Min: 中央 (düng yueng), 中间 (düng (g)an)
Hokkien: 中央 (zh-min-nan) (tiong-ng), 中間 / 中间 (zh-min-nan) (tiong-kan)
Mandarin: 中央 (zh) (zhōngyāng), 中間 / 中间 (zh) (zhōngjiān), 中心 (zh) (zhōngxīn)
Crimean Tatar: orta
Czech: střed (cs) m
Dalmatian: mesu m
Danish: midte c
Drung: vdung
Dutch: midden (nl) n, centrum (nl) n
Egyptian: (qꜣb)
Esperanto: mezo (eo)
Estonian: keskkoht
Evenki: дулин (dulin), уңурэ
Finnish: keskipiste (fi), keskusta (fi)
French: milieu (fr) m
Friulian: mieç m
Fula: hakkunde
Georgian: შუა (šua), შუაგული (šuaguli)
German: Mittelpunkt (de)
Gothic: 𐌼𐌹𐌳𐌿𐌼𐌰 f (miduma)
Greek: μέση (el) f (mési), μέσο (el) n (méso)
Ancient: μέσον n (méson)
Gujarati: મધ્ય (madhya), વચલું (vaclũ), વચ્ચેનું (vaccenũ)
Haitian Creole: mitan
Hebrew: אֶמְצַע (he)
Hindi: मध्य (hi) f (madhya)
Hungarian: középpont (hu)
Indonesian: tengah (id)
Irish: lár m
Old Irish: medón m
Italian: mezzo (it) m
Jamaican Creole: miggle
Japanese: 中央 (ja) (ちゅうおう, chūō), 中間 (ja) (ちゅうかん, chūkan), 中心 (ja) (ちゅうしん, chūshin)
Javanese: tengah (jv)
Kazakh: орта (orta)
Khmer: កណ្ដាល (km) (kɑndaal)
Komi-Permyak: шöр (šör)
Korean: 중앙(中央) (ko) (jung'ang), 중간(中間) (ko) (junggan), 가운데 (ko) (gaunde), 중심 (ko) (jungsim)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ناوەند (ckb) (nawend), ناوەڕاست (nawerrast)
Northern Kurdish: nav (ku) f
Kyrgyz: орто (ky) (orto)
Ladin: mesan
Lao: ກາງ (lo) (kāng)
Latgalian: vyds, vyducs
Latin: medium n
Latvian: vidus m
Lithuanian: vidurys
Lombard: mezz, mès
Macedonian: средина f (sredina), средиште n (središte)
Malay: pusat, tengah (ms)
Malayalam: നടുക് (naṭukŭ), മധ്യം (ml) (madhyaṁ)
Manchu: ᡩᡠᠯᡳᠮᠪᠠ (dulimba)
Maori: pokapū
Mongolian: дунд (mn) (dund)
Mwani: kati
Nepali: बीच (bīc), मध्य (madhya)
Northern Altai: орта (orta), орто (orto)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: midt (no) m
Nynorsk: midt (no) m
Occitan: mièg (oc) m
Odia: ମଝି (or) (majhi), ମଧ୍ୟ (or) (madhya)
Old English: middel; midlen
Old Javanese: tĕngah
Old Turkic: 𐰆𐰺𐱃𐰆 (ortu)
Ottoman Turkish: اورتا (orta)
Papiamentu: mei
Pashto: منځ (ps) m (manź)
Persian: میان (fa) (miyân), وسط (fa) (vasat)
Polish: środek (pl) m, serce (pl) n
Portuguese: meio (pt) m, centro (pt) m
Punjabi: ਮੱਧ (maddha)
Romanian: mijloc (ro) n, miez (ro) n, centru (ro) n
Russian: середи́на (ru) f (seredína), среди́на (ru) f (sredína)
Sanskrit: मध्य (sa) n (madhya)
Santali: ᱜᱚᱵᱷᱚ (gôbhô)
Scottish Gaelic: meadhan m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: средина f
Roman: sredina (sh) f
Slovak: stred m
Slovene: sredina (sl) f
Southern Altai: орто (orto)
Spanish: medio (es) m, centro (es) m
Sranan Tongo: mindri
Swedish: mitt (sv)
Tagalog: (literally) gitna (tl)
Tajik: миёна (tg) (miyona)
Tamil: நடு (ta) (naṭu)
Tatar: урта (tt) (urta)
Tausug: tungaan
Thai: กลาง (th) (glaang)
Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
Tok Pisin: namel
Turkish: orta (tr), merkez (tr)
Turkmen: orta
Udmurt: шор (šor)
Ukrainian: середи́на (uk) f (seredýna)
Urdu: وسط (ur) (vasat)
Uyghur: please add this translation if you can
Uzbek: oʻrta (uz), oʻrtacha (uz)
Venetan: mèzo
Vietnamese: giữa (vi), trung tâm (vi)
Walloon: mitan (wa) m
Welsh: canol (cy) f
West Frisian: middel n
White Hmong: please add this translation if you can
Yakut: орто (orto)
Yiddish: מיטל n (mitl)
Zhuang: cunghyangh :
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### Adjective

middle (not comparable)
* Located in the middle; in between.
    the middle point
    middle name, Middle English, Middle Ages
* Central.
* (grammar) Pertaining to the middle voice.

#### Synonyms

* See also Thesaurus:intermediate

#### Derived terms

* anteromiddle
* middlemost
* middleness
* middler
* middlescent
* middlesome
* middleware
* Middle Armenian
* Middle Assamese
* Middle Bengali
* Middle Breton
* Middle Chinese
* Middle Cornish
* Middle Danish
* Middle Dutch
* Middle Egyptian, Late-, Neo-
* Middle English
* Middle French
* Middle Frisian
* Middle Greek
* Middle High, Low German
* Middle Indo-Aryan
* Middle Iranian
* Middle Irish
* Middle Japanese
* Middle Korean
* Middle Latin
* Middle Mongol
* Middle Mongolian
* Middle Norwegian
* Middle Ottoman
* Middle Persian
* Middle Polish
* Middle Saxon
* Middle Scots
* Middle Welsh
* Hartington Middle Quarter
* Middle America, -n
* Middlebourne
* Middleburg
* Middlebury
* Middle Claydon
* Middle Earth, middle earth; Middle-earth, middle-earth
* Middle East, -ern, -ization
* Middle England, -er
* Middle Francia
* Middle Kingdom
* Middle Ocean
* Middle Rainton
* Middle River
* Middlesbrough
* Middlesex
* Middle States
* Middle Stoke
* Middleton
* Middletown
* Middle Wallop
* Middlewich
* diddle for middle
* down the middle
* in the middle of
* knock someone into the middle of next week
* law of (the) excluded middle
* man in the middle
* monkey in the middle
* piggy (pig) in the middle
* play (work) both sides (ends) against the middle
* take one's half out of the middle
* thick around the middle
* work both ends against the middle
* middle cerebral artery
* middle cervical ganglion
* middle ear
* middle finger
* middle lamella
* middle leg
* middle meningeal artery
* middle phalanx
* middle phalanx/phalange
* middle pharyngeal constrictor
* middle rib
* middle scalene muscle
* middle temporal artery
* lexical middle voice
* man-in-the-middle attack
* middle age, middle-aged
* Middle Ages
* middle-aisle it
* middle article
* middle atmosphere
* middle body
* middleborn
* middlebox
* middlebreaker
* middlebrow
* middlebuster
* middle C
* Middle Cambrian
* middle child
* middle childhood
* middle class, middle-class, lower-, upper-
* middle-click
* middle college
* middle day
* middle distance, middle-distance
* middle dot
* middle eight
* middle-end
* middle for diddle
* middlegame (middle game)
* middle ground
* middle-grounder
* middle guard
* middle hundreds
* middle-income trap
* middle income trap
* middle infield, -er
* middle latitude
* middle manager, middle management
* middleman (middle man), middlewoman, middleperson
* middle marker
* middle-market
* middle mile
* middle name
* middle note
* middle of bumfuck nowhere
* middle office
* middle of nowhere
* middle of the market
* middle of the road, -er
* middle-of-the-roadism
* middle order
* middle pair
* middle passage (Middle Passage)
* middle path
* middle position
* middle power
* middle reaches
* middle-road
* middle-roader
* middle school, middle schooler, middle school student
* middle-sized
* middle splitter
* middle spotted woodpecker
* middlestream
* middle stump
* middle term
* middle tilde
* middle verb
* middle voice
* middle watch
* Middle Watut
* middle way
* middleweight
* middle youth
* missing middle
* principle of excluded middle
* syntactic middle voice

#### Related terms

* mid-
* middle- (in compounds; not a prefix)
* middling

#### Translations
### Verb

middle (third-person singular simple present middles, present participle middling, simple past and past participle middled)
* (obsolete, transitive) To take a middle view of. [17th–18th c.]
** 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XXVII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:And now, to middle the matter between both, it is pity, that the man they favour has not that sort of merit which a person of a mind so delicate as that of Miss Harlowe might reasonably expect in a husband.
* (obsolete, nautical, transitive) To double (a rope) into two equal portions; to fold in the middle. [19th c.]
* (cricket, transitive) To strike (the ball) with the middle portion of the face of the bat.

## Middle English
### Adjective

middle
* inflection of middel:
** weak singular
** strong/weak plural