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Medina
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medina médina Medína mediną
English
Alternative forms
en Al Madinah for the city in Saudi Arabia
en Madinah
Etymology 1
From en ar اَلْمَدِينَة the city. en ar م د ن en This spelling influenced by Ottoman Turkish? en Mdina.
Pronunciation
en /məˈdinə/
en en-us-Medina.ogg US
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Sumxr-Medina.wav US
Proper noun
en Q35484en major city/capital p:suf/Medina c/Saudi Arabia holy to Islam, 200 miles north of Mecca along the Hejaz, from which the Hijra was launched; contains Muhammad's tomb A <<major city>>, the <<capital>> of <<p:suf/Medina>>, <<c/Saudi Arabia>>; holy to Islam Islam.
en Q236027en province c/Saudi Arabia.
en city/county seat co/Medina County s/Ohio named for the city in Saudi Arabia.
Derived terms
en Medinan Medinese
Translations
city in Saudi Arabia
Acehnese: ace Madinah
Albanian: sq Medina f
Arabic: ar الْمَدِينَة f, ar الْمَدِينَةُ الْمُنَوَّرَة f
Armenian: hy Մեդինա
Azerbaijani: az Mədinə
Bashkir: ba Мәҙинә
Bengali: bn মদিনা
Chechen: ce Мадинат
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 麥地那 Màidìnà, cmn 麥迪娜 Màidínà
Czech: cs Medína f
Dhivehi: dv މަދީނާ
Finnish: fi Medina
French: fr Médine
Galician: gl Medina
Georgian: ka მედინა
German: de Medina n
Greek: el Μεδίνα f
Gujarati: gu મદીના
Hausa: ha Madina
Hebrew: he מָדִינָה f madína
Hindi: hi मदीना
Hungarian: hu Medina
Indonesian: id Madinah
Ingush: inh Маддане
Iranun: ill
Irish: ga Meidíne f
Japanese: ja マディーナ Madīna
Javanese: jv Medinah
Kannada: kn ಮದೀನಾ
Kazakh: kk Медине, kk Мәдине
Korean: ko ^메디나
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: kmr Medîne
Kyrgyz: ky Медина
Lak: lbe Мадина
Latin: la Medina
Latvian: lv Medīna
Macedonian: mk Медина f
Maguindanao: mdh
Malay: ms Madinah
Malayalam: ml മദീന
Maranao: mrw
Marathi: mr मदीना n
Minangkabau: min Madinah
Odia: or ମଦିନା
Pashto: ps مدينه f madiná
Persian: fa مدینه madine
Middle Persian: pal mtyng madīnag Late Middle Persian
Polish: pl Medyna f
Portuguese: pt Medina f
Punjabi: pa ਮਦੀਨਾ
Rohingya: rhg Modina, rhg 𐴔𐴡𐴊𐴞𐴕𐴝
Russian: ru Меди́на f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Медина f
Latin: sh Medina f
Spanish: es Medina
Sundanese: su Madinah
Tajik: tg Мадина
Tamil: ta மதீனா
Tatar: tt Мәдинә
Tausug: tsg
Telugu: te మదీనా
Thai: th อัลมะดีนะฮ์, th เมดีนา
Turkish: tr Medine
Ottoman Turkish: ota مدینه Medîne
Turkmen: tk Medine
Urdu: ur مدینہ madīnā
Uyghur: ug مەدىنە
Uzbek: uz Madina
Yakan: yka
Etymology 2
en enm Medine, from en ang medume the middle one.
Proper noun
en A <<river>>, flowing south to north through the centre of the <<co/Isle of Wight>>, <<cc/England>> the River Medina.
en A <<former borough>> of the <<co/Isle of Wight>>, <<cc/England>>.
Etymology 3
en :bor es:Medina + 1
Proper noun
en A <<river>> in south central <<s/Texas>>, which gives its name to Medina County the Medina River.
en Spanish.
en Michael Martinez and Jaqueline Hurtado Undocumented immigrants picked for city posts say U.S. ‘progressing’ w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2015/08/08/us/huntington-park-undocumented-immigrants-city-commission-appointees 2015-08-08 “It’s a great message that we’re sending not only here in Huntington Park but in other cities as well,” Medina added. https://web.archive.org/web/20250926041716/https://www.cnn.com/2015/08/08/us/huntington-park-undocumented-immigrants-city-commission-appointees 26 September 2025
en female surnames.
Derived terms
en Medina County
en Medina del Campo
Etymology 4
en
Proper noun
en Q14935863 en suburb city/Perth s/Western Australia.
en Q22062380 en municipality s/Minas Gerais c/Brazil.
en Q115262291 en community twp:Suf/Zorra p/Ontario c/Canada.
en Q1579406 en municipality/and/town dept/Cundinamarca c/Colombia.
en municipal district p:suf/San Cristóbal c/Dominican Republic.
en village co:Suf/Tolna c/Hungary.
en rural locality dist/Hurunui r/Canterbury c/New Zealand; a short river named the Medina River is nearby. NZ Topo Map
en municipality p/Misamis Oriental c/Philippines.
en number of places c/USA:
en unincorporated community co/Jefferson County s/Kansas.
en city co/Hennepin County s/Minnesota.
en village in the towns of x/Shelby and x/Ridgeway co/Orleans County s/New York. TopoZone: Medina, New York
en tiny city co/Stutsman County s/North Dakota.
en small city co/Gibson County s/Tennessee.
en unincorporated community co/Bandera County s/Texas.
en CDP co/Zapata County s/Texas.
en small city co/King County s/Washington.
en unincorporated community co/Jackson County s/West Virginia.
en town co/Dane County s/Wisconsin.
en unincorporated community town:pref/Dale co/Outagamie County s/Wisconsin.
Translations
village in Tolna County, Hungary
Hungarian: hu Medina
See also
en medina
References
Anagrams
en adeimn Damien Eidman Maiden Manide Median Midean aidmen demain maenid maiden mained median meidan
Albanian
Proper noun
fsq verify gender of province
sq Medina Q35484,Q236027
Catalan
Pronunciation
Proper noun
f
ca Medina Q35484,Q236027
Proper noun
mfbysense
ca
Derived terms
ca medinès
Cebuano
Etymology
From ceb es Medina. The municipality in Misamis Oriental is named after Medina-Sidonia in Spain.
Pronunciation
ceb Me di na
Proper noun
ceb Spanish
ceb municipality p/Misamis Oriental c/Philippines Medina
Czech
Pronunciation
Proper noun
f medinský
cs rare or archaic cs Medína:
cs Medina Q35484,Q236027 ## 1
Declension
f.sg
Further reading
Medina
German
Pronunciation
de De-Medina.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Noun
f,s
medina old town in North African cities
Declension
f,s
Proper noun
n
de Medina Q35484,Q236027
Further reading
Medina_Stadt
Medina_Stadtteil_Viertel_Gesamtheit Medina (Stadtteil, Viertel, Gesamtheit)
de
Hungarian
Pronunciation
hu Me di na
hu nɒ 3
Etymology 1
hu:+ (Szaúd-Arábia)
thumb
hu ar اَلْمَدِينَة Medina the city.
Proper noun
hu proper noun
hu Medina Q35484,Q236027
Declension
Mediná o sgMediná sg
Derived terms
hu medinai
Etymology 2
hu:+ (Magyarország)
thumb
hu
Proper noun
hu proper noun
hu village co:Suf/Tolna c/Hungary
Declension
Mediná o sgMediná sg
Derived terms
hu medinai
Latin
Alternative forms
la Almidīna
la Yathrēbum pre-Islamic
Etymology
la Medīna :bor ar:اَلْمَدِينَة + 1
Pronunciation
Medīna
Proper noun
Medīna<1.loc>
la post-Classical la Arabic <<city>> in modern <<c/Saudi Arabia>> Medina
Declension
Medīna<1.loc>
Portuguese
Pronunciation
pt medina
pt Me di na
Proper noun
f
pt Medina Q35484,Q236027
pt municipality s/Minas Gerais c/Brazil Medina
Proper noun
mf
pt
Slovak
Pronunciation
Proper noun
f Mediny žena
sk Medina Q35484,Q236027
References
Spanish
Pronunciation
Proper noun
es Medina Q35484,Q236027
es
Tagalog
Etymology
tl :bor es:Medina + 1
Pronunciation
Proper noun
+
tl Medina Q35484,Q236027
tl municipality p/Misamis Oriental c/Philippines Medina
tl Spanish
Statistics
Medina 36th 110,717