Arabic

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Etymology

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Noun of place and tool noun of عَدَنَ (ʕadana, to strike).

Root
ع د ن (ʕ d n)
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  • IPA(key): /maʕ.din/
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Noun

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مَعْدِن (maʕdinm (plural مَعَادِن (maʕādin))

  1. mine, lode, place where a mineral is found
    • c. 950, أبو دلف مسعر بن مهلهل [ʾAbū Dulaf Misʿar Ibn Muhalhal], edited by Kurd von Schlözer, De itinere Asiatico commentarium[1], published 1845 WC GB, pages 18–19:
      فخرجت إلى الساحل أربد بكلة وهذا أول الهند ومنتهى مسير المراكب لا يتهيّأ لها أن يتجاوزها وألا غرقت قال فلما وصلت إلى كلة رأيته وهي عظيمة عالية السور كثيرة البساتين غزيرة الماء ووجدت بها معدن الرصاص القلعي لا يكون إلا في قلعتها في سائر الدنيا، وفي هذه القلعة تضرب السيوف القلعية، وهي الهندية العتيقة … وأهل هذه القلعة يمتنعون على ملكها إذا أرادوا يطيعونه إن أحبوا ورسمهم رسم الصين في ترك الذبائح وليس في جميع الدنيا معدن الرصاص القلعي إلا في هذه القلعة وبينهما وبين الصين ثلثمائة فرسخ وحولها مدن ورساتيق وقرى ولهم أحكام وحبوس وخبايات وأكلهم البر والتمور وبقولهم كلها تباع وزنا وأرغفة خبزهم تباع عددا ولا حمامات لهم بل عندهم عين جارية يغتسلون فيها ودرهمهم يزن ثلثي درهم ويعرف بالفهري ولهم فلوس يتعاملون بها ويلبسون كأهل الصين الإفرند الصيني المثمن وملكها دون ملك الصين ويخطب لملك الصين وقبلته إليه وبيت عبادته له.
      And I went off to the dusty shore of Kala, which is the first and ultimate end of India for vessels, as nobody even dares to imagine to pass by it since he would drown. When I arrived at Kala, I conned it and it is large and has high walls, many gardens and plenty of water, and I found mines of tin not found in the rest of the world but in Qalʿa, and in this Qalʿa one forges the Qalʿaite swords, the excellent Indian ones, and the populace of this Qalʿa withstands its king when it wants and abides by him when it lists, and their tradition is like the tradition of China, refraining from slaughtering beasts, and there aren’t in all the world tin mines but in this Qalʿa, and between them two and China are three-hundred parasang, and there are towns, rural districts and villages, and they have jurisdiction, jails, and corbans, and their food is wheat and dates and all their vegetables they buy by scales, and their bread is bread-rolls they buy by count. They have no baths but a running spring in which they wash, and their dirham weighs as a third-dirham and is known as Fahrī, and they have fulūs with which they commerce, and they dress like the people of China in dear Chinese silks, and their king is subordinate to the King of China, reports to the King of China, his praying direction is to him, his place of sacrifice is towards him.
  2. mineral
  3. metal

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Noun

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مِعْدَن (miʕdanm

  1. (obsolete) a pointed hammer to strike rocks, a pickaxe
    Synonyms: صَاقُور (ṣāqūr), مِعْوَل (miʕwal)

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Ottoman Turkish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic مَعْدِن (maʕdin, mine, load).

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معدن (maʼden) (plural معادن (maʼaden))

  1. mine, an excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken
  2. metal, any chemical element that forms a metallic bond with other metal atoms
  3. ore, mineral, rock or other material that contains valuable materials
    Synonym: جوهر (cevher)

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Pashto

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Etymology

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From Arabic مَعْدِن (maʕdin).

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معدن (mâdënm (plural معدنونه (mâdënûna))

  1. (rare, obsolete) mineral

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Persian

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Persian Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic مَعْدِن (maʕdin).

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Readings
Classical reading? ma'dan
Dari reading? ma'dan
Iranian reading? ma'dan
Tajik reading? maʾdan

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معدن (ma'dan) (plural معادن (ma'âden) or معدن‌ها (ma'dan-hâ))

  1. mine, quarry
    Synonym: کان (kân)

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Urdu

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Etymology

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From Arabic مَعْدِن (maʕdin).

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معدن (ma'dinm or f

  1. mine, quarry
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