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- Arabic · derived fromاَلْمَدَائِن
- English todayal-Mada'in
From Arabic اَلْمَدَائِن (al-madāʔin, literally “The Cities”) (plural of مَدِينَة (madīna)), calque of the Aramaic name.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
al-Mada'in
Today it means: An historical Sassanian Persian metropolis on the Tigris between the ancient royal centers of Ctesiphon and Seleucia-on-Tigris. Full definition →
Arabic اَلْمَدَائِن