Mina Definition

mīnə
minae, minas
noun
minae
A varying unit of weight and money used in ancient Greece, Egypt, etc., generally equal to160 talent, 100 drachmas, or 50 shekels.
Webster's New World

Myna.

Webster's New World

The myna bird.

Wiktionary
Synonyms:
  • mynah bird
  • myna-bird
  • minah
  • mynah
  • myna

Other Word Forms of Mina

Noun

Singular:
mina
Plural:
minae, minas

Origin of Mina

  • From Latin mina, from Ancient Greek μνᾶ (mna, “mna"). Compare maneh, from Classical Hebrew מָנֶה (“mane"), as well as maund, ultimately from Arabic مَنّ (“mann")

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin from Greek mnā from Akkadian manû a unit of weight from manû to count mnw in Semitic roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Hindi maina "starling", from Sanskrit madana.

    From Wiktionary

Mina Sentence Examples

  • If she had no children, he returned her the dowry and paid her a sum equivalent to the bride-price, or a mina of silver, if there had been none.

  • The mean of these eastern weights is 7700 for the mina, or 128.

  • Wellington had further organized the Spanish forces - Castanos (40,000), with the guerrilla bands of Mina, Longa and others, was in Galicia, the Asturias and northern Spain; Copons (io,000) in Catalonia; Elio (20,000) in Murcia; Del Parque (12,000) in the Sierra Morena, and O'Donell (15,000) in Andalusia.

  • The present population of Adalia, which includes many Christians and Jews, still living, as in the middle ages, in separate quarters, the former round the walled mina or port, is about 25,000.

  • Many parts of the state are wild and hilly, inhabited by a large Mina population, formerly notorious as a race of robbers.

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Words Starting With M and Ending With A

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4 Letter Words4 Letter Words Starting With M4 Letter Words Ending With A