Brown Driver Briggs

 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