medina

See also: Medina, médina, Medína, and mediną

English

English Wikipedia has articles on:

Medina quarter and Medina

Wikipedia Wikipedia

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 ʕatīqa), 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

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛˈdi.na/
• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: me‧di‧na

Noun

medina f

1. Alternative form of medyna

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	medina	mediny
genitive	mediny	medin
dative	medinie	medinom
accusative	medinę	mediny
instrumental	mediną	medinami
locative	medinie	medinach
vocative	medino	mediny

Declension of medina

Further reading

• medina in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Noun

medina f (plural medinas)

1. medina

Further reading

• “medina”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10