medina

Other forms of medina

plural

medinas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about medina

What does medina mean?

medina means "a city in western Saudi Arabia; site of the tomb of Muhammad; the second most holy city of Islam". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in medina?

medina has 3 syllables: me-di-na. The stress falls on "di". In IPA it is /məˈdaɪnə/.

What is another word for medina?

Close synonyms include Al Madinah. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is medina a common word?

medina is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.