Quran glossary · draft

مَدَائِن

cities

The plural noun denotes multiple inhabited cities.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 3

Roots: مدن

Lemmas: مدائن

Forms: مَدَآئِنِ

Occurrence examples (3 of 3)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 3.

7:111

قَالُوٓا۟ أَرْجِهْ وَأَخَاهُ وَأَرْسِلْ فِى ٱلْمَدَآئِنِ حَٰشِرِينَ

26:36

قَالُوٓا۟ أَرْجِهْ وَأَخَاهُ وَٱبْعَثْ فِى ٱلْمَدَآئِنِ حَٰشِرِينَ

26:53

فَأَرْسَلَ فِرْعَوْنُ فِى ٱلْمَدَآئِنِ حَٰشِرِينَ

Why this meaning was chosen

All 27 family occurrences were reviewed on one bounded page; every occurrence is a frozen target, with no protected records or compacted candidates. Ten مَدِينَة tokens denote a contextually identified city, three مَدَائِن tokens pluralize such urban places, four corpus-marked proper-name uses identify Medina as the City, and ten مَدْيَن tokens identify the named place or community Midian. Number, case, definiteness, governing preposition, movement direction, construct relation, and the place-to-people metonymy compose locally. The proper names lexicalize particular settlements or communities without Quran-internal contradiction to the inhabited-place core. No aligned reading payload, exact collision, or unresolved issue remains.