al-Mada'in

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Arabic اَلْمَدَائِن (al-madāʔin, literally “The Cities”) (plural of مَدِينَة (madīna)), calque of the Aramaic name.

Proper noun[edit]

al-Mada'in

  1. An historical Sassanian Persian metropolis on the Tigris between the ancient royal centers of Ctesiphon and Seleucia-on-Tigris.

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