māday מָדַי ‘Media’ (Hebrew)

Etymology^?: of foreign origin

māday pr n loc + pr n loc gen
Media or Medes or Madai = "middle land"
n pr m
1) a people descended from the son of Japheth and who inhabited the territory of Media
n pr loc
2) 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