Medina

See also: medina, médina, and Medína

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /məˈdinə/
  • (file)

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 unincorporated community 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 unincorporated community 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 unincorporated community in Jackson County, West Virginia.
    12. A town in Dane County, Wisconsin.
    13. An unincorporated community in the town of Dale, Outagamie County, Wisconsin.
  13. A surname from Spanish.
  14. A female given name transferred from the surname

Derived terms

Translations

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References

Anagrams

Albanian

Proper noun

Medina f

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

Catalan

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Medina f

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

Derived terms

  • medinès

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)

Czech

Alternative forms

Proper noun

Medina f

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

Declension

This proper noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

  • medinský

Further reading

  • Medina in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu

German

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Noun

Medina f (genitive Medina, plural Medinas)

  1. medina (old town in North African cities)

Declension

Proper noun

Medina n (proper noun, strong, genitive Medinas)

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

Further reading

Latin

Alternative forms

  • Almidīna
  • Yathrēbum (pre-Islamic)

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic المدينة (al-Madina).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Medīna f sg (genitive Medīnae); first declension

  1. (post-Classical) Medina (Arabic city in modern Saudi Arabia)

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Medīna
Genitive Medīnae
Dative Medīnae
Accusative Medīnam
Ablative Medīnā
Vocative Medīna
Locative Medīnae

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 
  • (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)

Proper noun

Medina m or f

  1. a surname

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

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

Tagalog

Etymology

From Spanish Medina.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: Me‧di‧na
  • IPA(key): /meˈdina/, [mɛˈdi.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.

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