Mina

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Mina can refer to:

Contents 1 Places 2 Others 2.1 Meanings 3 See also

[edit] Places

• Mina, Gabon
• Mina, Greece
• Mina, Iloilo, in the Philippines.
• Mina, Saudi Arabia
• Mina, New York, in the United States.
• Mina, Milton, in the Ontario.

[edit] Others

• Mina (unit), ancient unit of weight defined as being 50 shekels.
• Mina, popular folk singer from Serbia.
• Mina (singer), stage name of Anna Maria Mazzini, an Italian female singer from 1950s to date.
• Shim Mina, a Korean singer also known as the "World Cup Girl".
• Mina (drama), Korean drama.
• Saint Mina, Egyptian Saint of the 3rd Century AD. Saint Minas is a Coptic ( Egyptian ) Orthodox Saint.
• Seung Mi Na (Soul Calibur), fictional character from the "Soul" series of fighting video games.
• Mina (Dragonlance), herald of the One God in the Dragonlance setting.
• Mina Harker, a key character in Bram Stoker's novel Dracula.
• Mina Tsukishiro, the main character in Getsumento Heiki Mina a spin of series that was began as a fictitious anime in Densha Otoko
• Mina Mongoose A female Mongoose from the Sonic the Hedgehog Series.
• "Mina" was the name given to Minako Aino (Sailor Venus) in the English dub of the anime Sailor Moon.
• "Mina", another name for the Gen language (a Ghana/Togo language of the Gbe dialect cluster). The language is also called Gẽ.
• "Mina", a Native people and initial rulers of the Dhundhar region in Rajasthan, India.
• MINA or Multipurpose Infrastructure for Network Applications, a Java framework for creating high-performance networking applications.
• The Tambor Mina (Mina drum) is a large drum made out of a hollowed-out tree trunk in Venezuela.

[edit] Meanings

• "Mina", given name for males. In Arabic, etymologically it comes from the word 'Amen' in Coptic language.
• "Mina", given name for males in Egypt. It is the name of the first pharoh in Egypt also called Narmer and/or Menes
• "Mina", is a given name for females in Japanese.
• "Mina", given name for females. In Persian, it means azure and daisy flower.
• "Mina", given name for females in India.
• "Mina", means 'I' in the Estonian language.
• "Mina", means 'precious' in the Nepalese language
• "Mina", means 'Love' in Pashto (an Afghan language)
• "Mina", is slang for 'chick' or 'gal' in Argentina.
• "Mina", means 'Love' in old German.(another way of spelling is 'Minna')
• "Mina", means 'precious stone' in Hindi.
• "Mina", Family name in Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Jordan
• "Mina", means 'Sea Port" in Arabic language

[edit] See also

• Myna, a type of bird.