ملن

Arabic

Verb

مِلْنَ • (milna) (form I)

  1. second-person feminine plural active imperative of مَالَ (māla)
  2. third-person feminine plural past active of مَالَ (māla)
  3. third-person feminine plural past passive of مَالَ (māla)

Urdu

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit मिलन (milana).

Pronunciation

Noun

مِلَن • (milan) m (Hindi spelling मिलन)

  1. meeting, encounter
  2. mixing, union
  3. joining, contact

Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit मलिन (malina).

Pronunciation

Adjective

مَلِن • (malin) (Hindi spelling मलिन) (rare)

  1. dirty, filthy, foul, impure, soiled, unclean
  2. tarnished, stained, sullied, tainted, rusty, polluted, depraved, sinful, bad, vile, vicious
  3. black, dark, obscure, obscured, beclouded
  4. dull, dim

References

  • Platts, John T. (1884) “malin”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
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