medina

medina

See also: Medina, médina, and Medína

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَدِينَة‎ (madīna, “town, city”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /məˈdiːnə/

Noun

medina (plural medinas)

1. The traditional, older or non-European area of a North African town.

   Although Hicham usually worked in the new town, he still lived in the medina.

Translations

old town of Arab cities

Arabic: مَدِينَة عَتِيقَة‎ f (madīna ʿatīqa), مَدِينَة قَدِيمَة‎ f (madīna qadīma) Czech: medina (cs) f French: médina (fr) f Portuguese: almedina f, medina f Russian: меди́на (ru) f (medína) Spanish: medina (es) f

See also

• Medina

Anagrams

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

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Spanish

Noun

medina f (plural medinas)

1. medina

Further reading

• “medina”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014