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

See also

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)

Proper noun

Medina m or f by sense

  1. 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

Proper noun

Medina f (related adjective medinský)

  1. (rare or archaic) Alternative form of Medína

Declension

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

Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmɛdinɒ]
  • Hyphenation: Me‧di‧na
  • Rhymes: -nɒ

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic اَلْمَدِينَة (al-madīna, Medina, literally the city).

Proper noun

Medina

  1. Medina (the capital city of the Medina Region in western Saudi Arabia; the second-holiest city in Islam)
Declension
Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative Medina
accusative Medinát
dative Medinának
instrumental Medinával
causal-final Medináért
translative Medinává
terminative Medináig
essive-formal Medinaként
essive-modal
inessive Medinában
superessive Medinán
adessive Medinánál
illative Medinába
sublative Medinára
allative Medinához
elative Medinából
delative Medináról
ablative Medinától
non-attributive
possessive - singular
Medináé
non-attributive
possessive - plural
Medináéi
Possessive forms of Medina
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. Medinám
2nd person sing. Medinád
3rd person sing. Medinája
1st person plural Medinánk
2nd person plural Medinátok
3rd person plural Medinájuk
Derived terms
  • medinai

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Proper noun

Medina

  1. A village in Tolna County, Hungary.
Declension
Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative Medina
accusative Medinát
dative Medinának
instrumental Medinával
causal-final Medináért
translative Medinává
terminative Medináig
essive-formal Medinaként
essive-modal
inessive Medinában
superessive Medinán
adessive Medinánál
illative Medinába
sublative Medinára
allative Medinához
elative Medinából
delative Medináról
ablative Medinától
non-attributive
possessive - singular
Medináé
non-attributive
possessive - plural
Medináéi
Possessive forms of Medina
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. Medinám
2nd person sing. Medinád
3rd person sing. Medinája
1st person plural Medinánk
2nd person plural Medinátok
3rd person plural Medinájuk
Derived terms
  • medinai

Latin

Alternative forms

  • Almidīna
  • Yathrēbum (pre-Islamic)

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic اَلْمَدِينَة (al-madīna).

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]

  • Homophone: medina
  • 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): [ˈmeɟina]

Proper noun

Medina f (genitive singular Mediny, declension pattern of žena)

  1. Medina (a city in Saudi Arabia)

References

  • Medina”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

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

Borrowed from Spanish Medina.

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Medina (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜒᜇᜒᜈ)

  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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