mina

• Rhymes: -aɪnə

Borrowed from Hindi मैना (mainā)/Urdu مینا (mainā), from Sanskrit मदन (madana).

mina (plural minas)

1. Alternative spelling of myna.

Borrowed from Latin mina, from Ancient Greek μνᾶ (mnâ, “mna”). Compare maneh, from Biblical Hebrew מָנֶה (māne), as well as maund.

mina (plural minas or minae)

1. (historical) A monetary unit of ancient Greece and the Middle East, originally equivalent to the weight of a mina of silver. [From 15th C.]
   • 1989, C. D. C Reeve, Socrates in the Apology: An Essay on Plato′s Apology of Socrates, page 174:

     What then of the actual fine of thirty minae Socrates proposes? Thirty minae was a large sum, “the equivalent of approximately eight-and-one-half years′ wages," according to one recent estimate (Brickhouse and Smith 1988, 227); enough to buy a library of three thousand philosophy books, if the price of Anaxogoras′ book is any guide (26d6-e2).

2. (historical) A unit of weight of varying value used in the ancient Middle East, especially Babylonia, Mesopotamia and Egypt; also an ancient Greek measure of weight equivalent to 1/60th of a talent, approximately 400-700 grams. [From 16th C.]
   • 1999, Andrew George, transl., Gilgamesh, section VI:

     Thirty minas of lapis lazuli in a solid block, two minas each their rims, six kor of oil, the capacity of both.

• “mina”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “mina”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

• Amin, Iman, Main, Mani, Mian, NAMI, NIMA, Naim, amin, iman, main, mani

From Proto-Great Andamanese *muən.

mina

1. brains
2. dirt
3. matter
4. pus

• Juliette Blevins, Linguistic clues to Andamanese pre-history: Understanding the North-South divide, pg. 21 (2009)

mina f (plural mines)

1. mine (e.g. diamond mine)
2. mine (explosive)
3. lead (of pencil)

• mineru

• IPA^(key): /ˈmina/

mina

1. eye

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Borrowed from Spanish mina (“mine”), from French mine.

• IPA^(key): /mina/ [mi.na]
• Rhymes: -ina
• Hyphenation: mi‧na

mina inan

1. lead (of a pencil)
2. mine (device intended to explode when stepped on)

mina

1. Short form of minatu (“to mine”).

• IPA^(key): (Navarro-Lapurdian) /mina/ [mi.na]
• IPA^(key): (Southern) /miɲa/ [mi.ɲa]
• (Navarro-Lapurdian) Rhymes: -ina
• (Southern) Rhymes: -iɲa
• Hyphenation: mi‧na

mina

1. absolutive singular of min (“dear”)

mina

1. absolutive singular of min (“pain”)

• "mina" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus
• “mina” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], euskaltzaindia.eus

Borrowed from Latin mina.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈmi.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈmi.na]
• Rhymes: -ina

mina f (plural mines)

1. mine (excavation from which ore is taken)
2. mine (device intended to explode when stepped on)
3. lead (of a pencil)

• “mina” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

mina

1. inflection of minar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Inherited from Spanish mina.

mina

1. mine (excavation from which ore is taken)

mina

1. always
2. habitually

• IPA^(key): /ˈmiːna/
• Rhymes: -iːna

mīna

1. (transitive) to shoot arrows, to pierce something

• ixili

Borrowed from French mine.

mina

1. mine (explosive device)

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

mina

1. enamel, painting

   Synonym: emal

• Mirjejev, V. A., Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎, Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN
• “mina”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɪna]
• Hyphenation: mi‧na

mina f

1. (explosive): mine

• mina in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• mina in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

mina

1. size

From Proto-Finnic *minä, from Proto-Uralic *minä.

• IPA^(key): /ˈminɑ/
• Hyphenation: mi‧na

mina (genitive minu, partitive mind)

1. I (1st person singular personal pronoun)

• Used stressed in a sentence; when the pronoun is unstressed, the short form ma is used.
• Singular short forms of cases other than nominative, genitive and the locative cases exist, but they are considered nonstandard and dialectal, e.g. muga for the singular comitative.

• mina in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
• “mina”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
• “mina”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN

From Zulu mina.

mina

1. I, me; first-person singular pronoun.

From a clipping of minuutti.

• IPA^(key): /ˈminɑ/, [ˈminɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -inɑ
• Syllabification^(key): mi‧na

mina (slang)

1. minute

• minuutti

• main, mani, nami

• IPA^(key): /mi.na/

• Audio

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• Homophones: minas, minât

mina

1. third-person singular past historic of miner

• main

From Late Latin mina, from Gaulish *mēnā (“ore, mine”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈminɐ]

mina f (plural minas)

1. mine
2. barrow

• “mina” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “mina” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “mina” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Proto-Polynesian *mina, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *minat (compare with Malay minat).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmi.na/, [ˈmi.nə]

mina

1. to regret, be sorry, deplore; to grieve for something that is lost

   Mina au i kona puka ʻole ʻana mai ke kula mai.

   I regret she did not graduate from school.

2. to prize greatly, value greatly, especially of something in danger of being lost

   He mea mina ʻia ke keiki.

   A child is to be prized.

• Pukui, Mary Kawena, Elbert, Samuel H. (1986) “mina”, in Hawaiian Dictionary, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press

• IPA^(key): [minaʔ]

mina

1. only

   Synonym: aja

• IPA^(key): [ˈmina]
• Hyphenation: mi‧na

From English myna, from Hindi मैना (mainā)/Urdu مینا (mainā), from Sanskrit मदन (madana).

mina (first-person possessive minaku, second-person possessive minamu, third-person possessive minanya)

1. myna (Sturnidae).

   Synonyms: beo, jalak

From Sanskrit मीन (mīna).

mina (first-person possessive minaku, second-person possessive minamu, third-person possessive minanya)

1. fish.

   Synonym: ikan

From Arabic مِينَاء (mīnāʔ, “port, harbour”).

mina (first-person possessive minaku, second-person possessive minamu, third-person possessive minanya)

1. port, harbor.

   Synonym: pelabuhan

• “mina” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Late Latin mina, from Gaulish [Term?], from Proto-Celtic *mēnis (“ore, metal”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmi.na/
• Rhymes: -ina
• Hyphenation: mì‧na

mina f (plural mine)

1. mine, land mine
2. lead in pencils
3. mine which produces ore

• minare
• minerale
• miniera

• amni, iman, mani

mina

1. (Banawá) morning

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

mina

1. Rōmaji transcription of みな

mina

1. Romanization of ꦩꦶꦤ

mina

1. to swallow

From Ancient Greek μνᾶ (mnâ).

mina f (genitive minae); first declension

1. A Greek weight equal to 100 drachmas
2. A Greek silver coin equal to 100 drachmas

Borrowed from Gaulish *mēnā (“ore, mine”).

mina f (genitive minae); first declension

1. (Late Latin, Medieval Latin) ore, mine

• minārium
• minō

Clipping of hemina, from Ancient Greek ἡμίνα (hēmína).

mina f (genitive minae); first declension

1. (Medieval Latin) A dry measure equivalent to two bushels

• mināgium
• minārius
• mināta
• minellus

From minor (“threaten”).

mina f (genitive minae); first declension

1. (Medieval Latin) ambush

First-declension noun.

• minae (“battlements, peaks, threats”)

• "mina", in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "mina", in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mina in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• "mina" in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “mina”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “mina”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎, London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “mina”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 682/1

mina

1. third-person singular/plural past indicative of mīt

From Proto-Finnic *minä.

mina

1. I

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• IPA^(key): /ˈmiː.na/

mina f (plural mini)

1. tunnel

From Proto-Polynesian *mina, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *minat (compare with Malay minat).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmi.na/

mina

1. desire; wish
2. aspiration
3. longing
4. appetite

mina (passive minatia or minahia or minaia)

1. to desire
2. to feel an inclination
3. to wish
4. to have a craving for

• “mina” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

mina

1. foot

From Proto-Nguni *miná.

miná

1. I, me; first-person singular absolute pronoun.

• minen

mina m or f

1. definite feminine singular of mine

• IPA^(key): /²miːnɑ/

From mine.

• mine

mina (present tense minar/miner, past tense mina/minte, past participle mina/mint, passive infinitive minast, present participle minande, imperative mina/min)

1. to mine

mina f

1. definite singular of mine

• “mina” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Vulgar Latin *mīna or Vulgar Latin *mēna.

• IPA^(key): [miˈnɔ]

• Audio

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mina f (plural minas)

1. mine

-mina

1. to roll up, to fold up

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɪnɐ]

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mina

1. water
2. rain
3. waterhole

• kapi
• kumpuli

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mina

1. nest

• IPA^(key): /ˈmi.na/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: mi‧na

Borrowed from French mine, from Late Latin mina, from Gaulish *mēnā (“ore, mine”).

mina f

1. mine (exploding device)

Borrowed from French mine, from Breton min (“beak, muzzle”).

mina f (diminutive minka)

1. face, facial expression

• mina in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• mina in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• Hyphenation: mi‧na

From Late Latin mina, from Gaulish *mēnā (“ore, mine”).

mina f (plural minas)

1. mine (place from which ore is extracted)
2. (figuratively) fount
3. mine (explosive)

• (place): Minas Gerais
• (explosive): mina terrestre

• minar, minerar, mineiro, mineração

Either borrowed from Lunfardo or a short form of menina.

mina f (plural minas)

1. (slang, Brazil) girl, gal

mina

1. inflection of minar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

From Proto-Polynesian *mina, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *minat.

mina

1. to like, love; be fond of, delight in

   Antonym: veia

   Ko mina au i te tupu o te tamāwine ia.

   I love that girl's face.

2. to favour, prefer

   Na mina au i te manatunga a te tama ia.

   I prefer that man's suggestion.

• minangia
• mōuli
• manako

• Te Pukamuna | Pukapuka Dictionary

Borrowed from French miner.

a mina (third-person singular present minează, past participle minat) 1st conj.

1. to mine
2. to undermine

• IPA^(key): /míːna/

mȋna f

1. mine (exploding device)

• “mina”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

• IPA^(key): /ˈmina/ [ˈmi.na]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: mi‧na

Borrowed from French mine.

mina f (plural minas)

1. mine (excavation from which ore is taken)
2. mine (device intended to explode when stepped on)
3. lead (of a pencil)

Borrowed from Lunfardo, probably a contraction of Galician meniña (“girl”) or a contraction of Italian femmina (“woman”).

mina f (plural minas, masculine mino, masculine plural minos)

1. (Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, colloquial) woman
2. (Argentina, slang) prostitute

mina

1. inflection of minar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “mina”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

• audio

  (file)

• Pronoun: IPA^(key): /ˈmiːˌna/
• Noun: IPA^(key): /ˈmiː.na/

mina

1. (possessive) Plural of min

mina c

1. mine; a device intended to explode when stepped upon, touched, or in proximity to a ship or vehicle.

• minera

• mina in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• mina in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• mina in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• IPA^(key): [ˈmi.na]

mina (subject clitic mo, possessive prefix mi, Jawi مين)

1. (feminine) third-person singular pronoun, she

• Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *miñak, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *miñak. Compare Malay minyak.

mina

1. oil (petroleum-based liquid)
2. fat, grease

mina

1. I, me; first-person singular pronoun.

mina

1. nest

From Proto-Nguni *miná.

• IPA^(key): /miːná/

miná

1. I, me; first-person singular absolute pronoun.

• C. M. Doke, B. W. Vilakazi (1972) “mina”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “mina (6.3)”