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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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MDN مدن 
ID … • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√MDN 
“root” 
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♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘city, fortress, to settle in a place’ are concepts which some philologists consider to be associated with this root. Others derive these concepts from the root DYN. It is clear from literature, however, that madīnaẗ came into Arabic as a borrowing from Aram. Madyan, which some philologists derive from this root, is generally recognised as a foreign name. 
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▪ For Engl medina see ↗madīnaẗ and ↗dīn. 
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madīnaẗ مَدِينَة 
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▪ (Huehnergard2011:) Engl medina, from Ar madīnaẗ ‘city’, from Aram mᵊdin(t)ā ‘jurisdiction, district, province, city’, from dān ‘to judge, adjudicate, administer’, cf. Ar ↗dīn in the sense of ‘judgment’. 
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madanī مَدَنِيّ 
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tamaddun تَمَدُّن 
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