معدن

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

• IPA^(key): /maʕ.din/

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مَعْدِن • (maʕdin) m (plural مَعَادِن (maʕādin))

1. mine, lode, place where a mineral is found

   Synonym: (commoner) مَنْجِم (manjim)

   • 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

• مَعْدِنِيّ (maʕdiniyy)

مِعْدَن • (miʕdan) m

1. (obsolete) a pointed hammer to strike rocks, a pickaxe

   Synonyms: صَاقُور (ṣāqūr), مِعْوَل (miʕwal)

Borrowed from Arabic مَعْدِن (maʕdin), from عَدَنَ (ʕadana).

معدن • (maʼden) (definite accusative معدنی (maʼdeni), plural معادن (maʼâdin))

1. mine, an excavation from which ore or minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels

   Synonyms: كان (kân), منجم (mencem)

   • 1895 June 8, photo caption in Servet-i Fünun, page 228:

     ترانسوال یكی التون معدنلری: كمبرلی رودپورت معدننده التون معدنی اخراجی

     transval yeni altın madenleri: kimberli rodport madeninde altın madeni ihracı

     New Transvaal gold mines: gold ore extraction in the Kimberley Roodeport mine

2. metal, any of various chemical elements in the periodic table that form a metallic bond with other metal atoms

   Synonym: فلز (filizz)

3. (mineralogy) ore, rock or other material that contains valuable or utilitarian materials, primarily metals or gems

   Synonym: جوهر (cevher)

4. mineral, a solid substance that has a fairly well-defined chemical composition and a specific crystal structure

معدن • (maʼden)

1. metallic, of, relating to, or characteristic of metal, made of or containing such a material

   Synonym: معدنی (maʼdenî)

• Turkish: maden
• → Albanian: madem
• → Armenian: մատէն (matēn), մա̈դա̈ն (mädän), մատէմ (matēm)
• → Greek: μαντέμι (mantémi)
• → Macedonian: мадем (madem)
• → Polish: majdan
• → Romanian: madem
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: мајдан

  Latin script: majdan

معدن • (maʼden)

1. Maden (a town and district of Elazığ Province, Turkey)

   Synonym: ارغنی معدنی (ergani maʼdeni) (historical)

2. (now historical) synonym of چام آردی (çam ardı)
3. (now historical) synonym of كسكین (keskin)

• Turkish: Maden
• → Armenian: Մադեն (Maden)

Borrowed from Classical Persian مَعْدَن (ma'dan), borrowed from Arabic مَعْدِن (maʕdin), from عَدَنَ (ʕadana).

• IPA^(key): /mɑd̪ən/

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معدن • (mâdën) m (plural معدنونه (mâdënûna))

1. (rare, obsolete) mineral

Borrowed from Arabic مَعْدِن (maʕdin), from عَدَنَ (ʕadana).

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معدن • (ma'dan) (plural معادن (ma'âden), or معدن‌ها (ma'dan-hā / ma'dan-hâ), Tajik spelling маъдан)

1. mine, quarry

   Synonym: کان (kân)

   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 2077:

     یاد الناس معادن هین بیار
     معدنی باشد فزون از صد هزار

     yād alnās ma'ādin hīn biyār
     ma'dan-ē bāšad fuzūn az sad hazār

     Take heed, remember (the adage), ‘Men are mines’:
     one mine may be more than a hundred thousand.

• Tajik: маъдан (ma'dan)
• → Hindustani:

  Urdu: مَعْدِن (ma'din)

• → Pashto: معدن (ma'dán)
• → Turkmen: magdan
• → Uyghur: مەدەن (meden)
• → Uzbek: ma'dan

Borrowed from Classical Persian مَعْدَن (ma'dan), borrowed from Arabic مَعْدِن (maʕdin), from عَدَنَ (ʕadana).

معدن • (ma'din) m or f

1. mine, quarry

• معدنی (ma'dinī)
• معدنیات (ma'dinīyāt)