of foreign derivation; Madai, a country of central Asia:—Madai, Medes, Media.
Outline
Media or Medes or Madai = "middle land"
proper masculine noun
a people descended from the son of Japheth and who inhabited the territory of Media
proper locative noun
land inhabited by the descendants of Japheth; located northwest of Persia proper, south and southwest of the Caspian Sea, east of Armenia and Assyria, and west and northwest of the great salt desert of Iram