medal

medal

See also: meðal

English

The National Geographic Society's "Hubbard Medal"

Etymology

From Middle English [Term?], from Middle French medaille, medale, from Italian medaglia (originally "half a denarius"), from Vulgar Latin *medālia, dissimilated form of the unattested *mediālia, neuter plural (taken for a feminine singular) of the adjective *mediālis (“of the middle”), from Late Latin mediāle (“middle”), from Latin medius.

Pronunciation

• enPR: mĕdʹ-əl, IPA^(key): /ˈmɛdəl/
  • (UK) IPA^(key): [ˈmɛd.ɫ̩]

    • Audio (RP)

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    • Homophone: meddle
  • (US) IPA^(key): [ˈmɛɾ.ɫ̩]
    • Homophones: meddle, metal, mettle
  • (General Australian) IPA^(key): [ˈmeɾ.ɫ̩]
    • Homophones: meddle, metal, mettle
• Rhymes: -ɛdəl

Noun

medal (plural medals)

1. A stamped metal disc used as a personal ornament, a charm, or a religious object.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970:

     , II.i.3:

     Whether their images, shrines, relics, consecrated things, holy water, medals, benedictions, those divine amulets, holy exorcisms, and the sign of the cross, be available in this disease?

2. A stamped or cast metal object (usually a disc), particularly one awarded as a prize or reward.

Derived terms

• bronze medal
• gold medal
• medalist
• silver medal
• tea and medals

 

Related terms

• medalet
• medallic
• medallion
• medallist
• medallurgy

 

Descendants

• → Japanese: メダル (medaru)
• → Korean: 메달 (medal)

Translations

stamped metal disc

Afrikaans: medalje (af) Albanian: medalja f Amharic: ሽልማት (šəlmat) Arabic: مِيدَالِيَة‎ f (mīdāliya), مِِيدَالْيَة‎ f (midālya), وِسَام‎ m (wisām) Armenian: մեդալ (hy) (medal) Azerbaijani: medal (az) Bashkir: миҙал (miðal) Basque: domina (eu) Belarusian: меда́ль f (mjedálʹ) Bengali: তকমা (tôkôma), পদক (pôdôkô), মেডেল (meḍel) Breton: medalenn (br) f Bulgarian: меда́л (bg) m (medál) Burmese: ဆုတံဆိပ်ရှင် (hcu.tamhciphrang), ဆုရှင် (hcu.hrang) Catalan: medalla (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 獎章／奖章 (zh) (jiǎngzhāng), 勳章／勋章 (zh), 勛章／勋章 (zh) (xūnzhāng) Czech: medaile (cs) f Danish: medalje c Dutch: medaille (nl) m or f, erepenning (nl) f Erzya: ловмоярмак (lovmojarmak) Esperanto: medalo Estonian: medal (et) Faroese: heiðursmerki, medalja Finnish: mitali (fi) French: médaille (fr) f Galician: medalla (gl) f Georgian: მედალი (medali) German: Medaille (de) f Greek: μετάλλιο (el) n (metállio) Gujarati: પદક m (padak), ચંદ્રક m (candrak) Hebrew: מֵדַלִיָה‎ (he) f (medaliya) Hindi: पदक (hi) m (padak), मेडल (hi) m (meḍal), तकमा (hi) m (takmā), तमगा (hi) m (tamgā), तमग़ा m (tamġā), तक्मा (hi) m (takmā), बिल्ला (hi) m (billā) Hungarian: medália Hunsrik: Mëtallia f Icelandic: minnispeningur m, medalía f Ido: medalio (io) Indonesian: medali (id) Irish: bonn m Italian: medaglia (it) f Japanese: 賞牌 (ja) (しょうはい, shōhai), メダル (ja) (medaru), 勲章 (ja) (くんしょう, kunshō) Kazakh: медаль (medal) Khmer: មេដាយ (km) (meedaay), ឥស្សរិយាភរណៈ (əhsa’ri’yiepʰea’rea’na’) Korean: 메달 (ko) (medal) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: medalya (ku) Kyrgyz: медаль (medalʹ) Ladin: bedaia f Lao: ຫລຽນ (līan), ຫຣຽນ (rīan) Latin: medalis Latvian: medaļa f Lithuanian: medalis m Macedonian: медал m (medal) Malay: pingat (ms) Malayalam: സ്മാരകമുദ്ര (smārakamudra), ബിരുദമുദ്ര (birudamudra), പതക്കം (ml) (patakkaṃ) Maltese: midalja f Marathi: पदक n (padak), बिल्ला m (billā) Mongolian: please add this translation if you can Nepali: पदक (padak), तक्मा (takmā) Norwegian: Bokmål: medalje Nynorsk: medalje Occitan: medalha (oc) f Ossetian: медаль (medalʹ) Persian: مدال‎ (fa) (medâl) Polish: medal (pl) m Portuguese: medalha (pt) f Punjabi: ਤਮਗ਼ਾ (tamġā), ਮੈਡਲ (maiḍal) Romanian: medalie (ro) f Russian: меда́ль (ru) f (medálʹ) Scottish Gaelic: bonn-cuimhne m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: медаља f Roman: medalja (sh) f Sicilian: middaghia f Slovak: medaila f Slovene: medalja (sl) f Somali: billad, bilada Sotho: metlele Spanish: medalla (es) f Swahili: nishani (sw) Swedish: medalj (sv) c Tagalog: medalya Tajik: медал (medal) Tamil: பதக்கம் (ta) (patakkam) Telugu: బిరుదు బిళ్ళ (te) (birudu biḷḷa), పతకం (patakaṁ) Thai: เหรียญ (th) (rǐian) Tibetan: རྟགས་མ (rtags ma) Turkish: madalya (tr) Turkmen: nyşan, medal Ukrainian: меда́ль f (medálʹ) Urdu: تمغا‎ f (tamġā), میڈل‎ m (meḍal) Uzbek: medal (uz) Vietnamese: huy chương (vi), mề đay (vi) Walloon: medaye (wa) Welsh: bathodyn m, medal m West Frisian: medalje Yiddish: מעדאַל‎ f (medal)

Verb

medal (third-person singular simple present medals, present participle medaling or medalling, simple past and past participle medaled or medalled)

1. (intransitive, sports, colloquial) To win a medal.

   He medalled twice at the Olympics.

   • 2013 January 13, “Je Ne Sais What?”, in The Good Wife, season 4, episode 12, spoken by Anna (Elizabeth Alderfer):

     I wanted to medal. I was pregnant and I wanted to medal.

2. (transitive) To award a medal to.

Anagrams

• Delma, damel, delam, lamed

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Azerbaijani

Etymology

From French médaille, from Italian medaglia.

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Noun

medal (definite accusative medalnı, plural medallar)

1. medal

Declension

Declension of medal
	singular	plural
nominative	medal	medallar
definite accusative	medalı	medalları
dative	medala	medallara
locative	medalda	medallarda
ablative	medaldan	medallardan
definite genitive	medalın	medalların

Possessive forms of medal
	nominative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	medalım	medallarım
sənin (“your”)	medalın	medalların
onun (“his/her/its”)	medalı	medalları
bizim (“our”)	medalımız	medallarımız
sizin (“your”)	medalınız	medallarınız
onların (“their”)	medalı or medalları	medalları
	accusative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	medalımı	medallarımı
sənin (“your”)	medalını	medallarını
onun (“his/her/its”)	medalını	medallarını
bizim (“our”)	medalımızı	medallarımızı
sizin (“your”)	medalınızı	medallarınızı
onların (“their”)	medalını or medallarını	medallarını
	dative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	medalıma	medallarıma
sənin (“your”)	medalına	medallarına
onun (“his/her/its”)	medalına	medallarına
bizim (“our”)	medalımıza	medallarımıza
sizin (“your”)	medalınıza	medallarınıza
onların (“their”)	medalına or medallarına	medallarına
	locative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	medalımda	medallarımda
sənin (“your”)	medalında	medallarında
onun (“his/her/its”)	medalında	medallarında
bizim (“our”)	medalımızda	medallarımızda
sizin (“your”)	medalınızda	medallarınızda
onların (“their”)	medalında or medallarında	medallarında
	ablative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	medalımdan	medallarımdan
sənin (“your”)	medalından	medallarından
onun (“his/her/its”)	medalından	medallarından
bizim (“our”)	medalımızdan	medallarımızdan
sizin (“your”)	medalınızdan	medallarınızdan
onların (“their”)	medalından or medallarından	medallarından
	genitive
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	medalımın	medallarımın
sənin (“your”)	medalının	medallarının
onun (“his/her/its”)	medalının	medallarının
bizim (“our”)	medalımızın	medallarımızın
sizin (“your”)	medalınızın	medallarınızın
onların (“their”)	medalının or medallarının	medallarının

Derived terms

• medalçı

Further reading

• “medal” in Obastan.com.

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Crimean Tatar

Noun

medal

1. medal.

Declension

Declension of medal

nominative	medal
genitive	medalniñ
dative	medalge
accusative	medalni
locative	medalde
ablative	medalden

References

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎, Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

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Estonian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

medal (genitive medali, partitive medalit)

1. medal

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• hõbemedal
• kuldmedal
• pronksmedal

Further reading

• medal in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat

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Polish

Medals engraved by Polish artist Zbigniew Kotyłło

Etymology

Borrowed from French médaille, from Italian medaglia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ.dal/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ɛdal
• Syllabification: me‧dal

Noun

medal m inan (diminutive medalik)

1. medal (stamped metal disc)

Declension

Declension of medal

	singular	plural
nominative	medal	medale
genitive	medalu	medali
dative	medalowi	medalom
accusative	medal	medale
instrumental	medalem	medalami
locative	medalu	medalach
vocative	medalu	medale

Derived terms

adjective

• medalowy

 

nouns

• medalier
• medalista
• medalistka

 

Related terms

adjective

• medalierski

 

nouns

• medaliera
• medaliernia
• medalierstwo

 

Further reading

• medal in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• medal in Polish dictionaries at PWN