Medina

Medina

See also: medina, médina, and Medína

English

Alternative forms

• Al Madinah (for the city in Saudi Arabia)
• Madinah

Etymology

• The city in Saudi Arabia is derived from Arabic اَلْمَدِينَة‎ (al-madīna, “the city”).
• The river and former borough on the Isle of Wight are derived from Old English Meðune (“the middle one”).
• The river and county in Texas are derived from the Spanish surname Medina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /məˈdinə/

• Audio (US)

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Proper noun

Medina

1. The capital city of the Medina region, Saudi Arabia; a city, holy to Islam, 200 miles north of Mecca along the Hejaz, from which the Hejira was launched; contains Muhammad's tomb.
2. A suburb of Perth, Western Australia.
3. A municipality of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
4. A community in Zorra Township, Ontario, Canada.
5. A municipality and town in the Cundinamarca department, Colombia.
6. A municipal district of San Cristóbal province, Dominican Republic.
7. A river, the River Medina, flowing south to north through the centre of the Isle of Wight, England.
8. A former borough of the Isle of Wight, England.
9. A village in Tolna County, Hungary.
10. A rural locality in Hurunui district, Canterbury, New Zealand; a short river named the Medina River is nearby. [1]
11. A municipality of Misamis Oriental, Philippines.
12. A number of places in the United States:
    1. An unincorporatedcommunity in Jefferson County, Kansas.
    2. A city in Hennepin County, Minnesota.
    3. A village in Orleans County, New York.
    4. A tiny city in Stutsman County, North Dakota.
    5. A city, the county seat of Medina County, Ohio, named for the city in Saudi Arabia.
    6. A small city in Gibson County, Tennessee.
    7. An unincorporatedcommunity in Bandera County, Texas.
    8. A census-designated place in Zapata County, Texas.
    9. A river, the Medina River, in south central Texas, which gives its name to Medina County.
    10. A small city in King County, Washington.
    11. An unincorporatedcommunity in Jackson County, West Virginia.
    12. A town in Dane County, Wisconsin.
    13. An unincorporatedcommunity in the town of Dale, Outagamie County, Wisconsin.
13. A surname from Spanish.
14. A female given name transferred from the surname

Derived terms

• Medina County

Translations

a city in Saudi Arabia

Albanian: Medina f Arabic: الْمَدِينَة‎ f (al-madīna), الْمَدِينَةُ الْمُنَوَّرَة‎ (ar) f (al-madīnatu l-munawwara) Armenian: Մեդինա (Medina) Azerbaijani: Mədinə Bashkir: Мәҙинә (Mäðinä) Bengali: মদিনা (bn) (môdina) Chinese: Mandarin: 麥地那／麦地那 (zh) (Màidìnà), 麥迪娜／麦迪娜 (Màidínà) Czech: Medína (cs) f Dhivehi: މަދީނާ‎ (madīnā) Finnish: Medina (fi) Galician: Medina (gl) Georgian: მედინა (medina) German: Medina (de) n Greek: Μεδίνα f (Medína) Gujarati: મદીના (madīnā) Hausa: Madina Hebrew: מָדִינָה‎ (he) f (madína) Hindi: मदीना (hi) (madīnā) Hungarian: Medina (hu) Indonesian: Madinah Iranun: please add this translation if you can Irish: Meidíne f Japanese: マディーナ (Madīna) Javanese: Medinah Kannada: ಮದೀನಾ (madīnā) Kazakh: Медине (Medine), Мәдине (Mädine) Korean: 메디나 (Medina) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: Medîne (ku) Kyrgyz: Медина (Medina) Lak: Мадина (Madina) Latin: Medina Macedonian: Медина f (Medina) Maguindanao: please add this translation if you can Malay: Madinah Malayalam: മദീന (madīna) Maranao: please add this translation if you can Marathi: मदीना n (madīnā) Middle Persian: mtyng (madīnag) (Late Middle Persian) Oriya: ମଦିନା (or) (môdina) Ottoman Turkish: مدینه‎ (Medine) Pashto: مدينه‎ f (madiná) Persian: مدینه‎ (fa) (madine) Portuguese: Medina (pt) f Punjabi: ਮਦੀਨਾ (madīnā) Rohingya: Modina, 𐴔𐴡𐴊𐴞𐴕𐴝‎ (modina) Russian: Меди́на (ru) f (Medína) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Медина f Roman: Medina (sh) f Spanish: Medina (es) Tajik: Мадина (tg) (Madina) Tamil: மதீனா (matīṉā) Tatar: Мәдинә (Mädinä) Tausug: please add this translation if you can Telugu: మదీనా (madīnā) Thai: อัลมะดีนะฮ์, เมดีนา Turkish: Medine (tr) Turkmen: Medine Urdu: مدینہ‎ (madīnā) Uyghur: مەدىنە‎ (medine) Uzbek: Madina Yakan: please add this translation if you can

See also

• medina

References

1. NZ Topo Map

Anagrams

• Damien, Eidman, Maiden, Manide, Median, Midean, aidmen, demain, maenid, maiden, mained, median, meidan

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /məˈdi.nə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /meˈdi.na/

Proper noun

Medina f

1. Medina (the capital city of the Medina region, Saudi Arabia, holy to Islam)
2. a surname

Derived terms

• medinès

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Cebuano

Etymology

From Spanish Medina. The municipality in Misamis Oriental is named after Medina-Sidonia in Spain.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: Me‧di‧na
• IPA^(key): /meˈdina/, [mɪˈd̪i.n̪ʌ]

Proper noun

Medina

1. a surname from Spanish
2. Medina (a municipality of Misamis Oriental, Philippines)

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Czech

Alternative forms

• Medína

Proper noun

Medina f

1. Medina (the capital city of the Medina region, Saudi Arabia, holy to Islam)

Derived terms

• medinský

Further reading

• Medina in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu

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German

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Noun

Medina f (genitive Medina, plural Medinas)

1. medina (old town in North African cities)

Declension

Declension of Medina [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Medina	die	Medinas
genitive	einer	der	Medina	der	Medinas
dative	einer	der	Medina	den	Medinas
accusative	eine	die	Medina	die	Medinas

Proper noun

Medina n (proper noun, strong, genitive Medinas)

1. Medina (holy city in Saudi Arabia)

Further reading

• “Medina” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Medina” in Duden online
• “Medina (Stadtteil, Viertel, Gesamtheit)” in Duden online
• Medina on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /meˈd͡ʒĩ.nɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /meˈd͡ʒĩ.nɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /meˈd͡ʒi.na/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mɨˈdi.nɐ/ [mɨˈði.nɐ]

• Hyphenation: Me‧di‧na

Proper noun

Medina f

1. Medina (the capital city of the Medina region, Saudi Arabia, holy to Islam)
2. Medina (a municipality of Minas Gerais, Brazil)

Medina m or f

1. a surname

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Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmedina]

Proper noun

Medina f (genitive singular Mediny, declension pattern of žena)

1. Medina (a city in Saudi Arabia)

References

• Medina in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meˈdina/ [meˈð̞i.na]
• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: Me‧di‧na

Proper noun

Medina ?

1. Medina (the capital city of the Medina region, Saudi Arabia, holy to Islam)
2. a surname

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Tagalog

Etymology

From Spanish Medina.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: Me‧di‧na

• IPA^(key): /meˈdina/, [meˈdi.nɐ]

Proper noun

Medina

1. Medina (the capital city of the Medina region, Saudi Arabia, holy to Islam)
2. Medina (a municipality of Misamis Oriental, Philippines)
3. a surname from Spanish

Statistics

According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Medina is the 36th most common surname in the Philippines, occurring in 110,717 individuals.