minar

minar (plural minars)

1. A minaret.
   • 1885, James Burgess, Lists of the Antiquarian Remains in the Bombay Presidency, page 230:

     The barah-dari has six window places and two doorways, and is surmounted by four small minars.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [miˈna]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [miˈnaɾ]

minar (first-person singular present mino, first-person singular preterite miní, past participle minat)

1. to mine (to dig into, for ore or metal)
2. to mine (to sow explosive mines)
3. to undermine (to weaken or work against)

   Synonym: soscavar

• mina

• “minar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “minar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “minar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “minar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

minar

1. present of mina

From mina +‎ -ar.

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minar

1. to mine

• Hyphenation: mi‧nar

minar (first-person singular present mino, first-person singular preterite minei, past participle minado)

1. to mine (to extract ore from the ground)
2. (transitive) to mine (to place mines (device that explodes when touched or approached) in)

   Synonyms: explorar, minerar

3. to undermine (to dig under something)

   Synonym: solapar

4. (figurative) to undermine (to weaken or work against)

• mina

From Latin mina (“mine”), from Ancient Greek μνᾶ (mnâ, “100 drachmas”).

• IPA^(key): /miˈnaɾ/ [miˈnaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: mi‧nar

minar (first-person singular present mino, first-person singular preterite miné, past participle minado)

1. to sap, mine, dig tunnels under
2. to mine, lay military land or marine mines
3. (figuratively) to undermine, destroy (health, confidence, etc.)
4. to wear away, erode

• “minar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014