mine

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Pronunciation

enPR: mīn, IPA^(key): /maɪ̯n/
- Audio (US): (file)
(Philadelphia) IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪ.ɪn/
- Audio (Philadelphia): (file)
Rhymes: -aɪn

Etymology 1

From Middle English min, myn, from Old English mīn, from Proto-West Germanic *mīn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *méynos.

Cognate with Saterland Frisian mien, West Frisian myn, Dutch mijn, Low German mien, German mein, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish min, Faroese and Icelandic mín.

Alternative forms

myne (obsolete)

Pronoun

mine (plural mine)

That or those belonging to me.
1. Used predicatively.
  The house itself is mine, but the land is not.
  
  These books are mine.
  - 1905, E. M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread , chapter 7:
    "Ah, but how beautiful (my baby boy) is! And he is mine, mine for ever. Even if he hates me he will be mine. He cannot help it, he is made out of me; I am his father."
2. Used substantively, with an implied noun.
  Mine has been a long journey.
  - 1953, Ian Fleming, “Rouge et Noir”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 50:
    ‘My name’s Felix Leiter,’ said the American. ‘Glad to meet you.’ ‘Mine’s Bond - James Bond.’
3. Used absolutely, set off from the sentence.
  Mine for only a week so far, it already feels like an old friend.
5. (informal) My house or home.
  We had the party at mine.
6. As double possessive.
  This house of mine is over 100 years old.
  
  You have something of mine.

Derived terms

Translations

that which belongs to me

Afrikaans: myne (af)
Altai:
Southern Altai: мендийи (mendiyi)
Apache:
Western Apache: shíí
Arabic: لِي (lī)
Egyptian Arabic: لي (leya), بتاعي (betaʕi)

Hijazi Arabic: حَقِّي (ḥaggi), لِيَّ (liyya)
Armenian: իմը (imə)
Aromanian: njeu
Azerbaijani: mənimki
Bahamian Creole: mines
Bashkir: минеке (mineke)
Belarusian: мой (moj)
Central Bikol: ko, sako (bcl), sakuya (bcl)
Breton: ma hini (br) sg, ma re (br) pl
Bulgarian: мой (bg) (moj)
Buryat: миниихи (miniixi), миниихин (miniixin)
Catalan: el meu m, la meva f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 我的 (zh) (wǒ de)
Comorian:
Ngazidja Comorian: -ahangu
Coptic:
Bohairic Coptic: ⲫⲱⲓ m (phōi), ⲑⲱⲓ f (thōi), ⲛⲟⲩⲓ pl (noui)

Sahidic Coptic: ⲡⲱⲓ m (pōi), ⲧⲱⲓ f (tōi), ⲛⲟⲩⲓ pl (noui)
Czech: můj (cs) m
Dalmatian: maja
Danish: min (da) m
Dolgan: миньиэнэ (mińiene)
Dutch: de mijne (nl), het mijne (nl)
Egyptian: (Late Egyptian)

(pꜣy .j m), (Late Egyptian)

(tꜣy .j f), (Late Egyptian)

(nꜣy .j pl)
Esperanto: mia (eo), la mia
Even: минӈи (minŋi)
Finnish: minun (fi), (colloquial) mun (fi)
French: le mien (fr) m, à moi (fr)
Friulian: mê
Georgian: ჩემი (čemi)
German: mein (de), meins (de)
Greek: δικός μου (el) m (dikós mou), δικιά μου f (dikiá mou), δική μου (el) f (dikí mou), δικό μου (el) n (dikó mou), δικοί μου (el) m pl (dikoí mou), δικές μου (el) f pl (dikés mou), δικά μου (el) n pl (diká mou)
Ancient Greek: (Attic Greek, possessive adjective with article in appropriate gender and number) ὁ ἐμός (ho emós), οὑμός (houmós) (crasis); (Epic Greek, without article) ἐμός (emós)
Hawaiian: oʻu, aʻu
Hebrew: שֶׁלִּי (shelí)
Hindi: मेरा (hi) (merā), मेरी (hi) f (merī), मेरे (hi) m or m pl (mere)
Hungarian: enyém (hu), enyéim (hu), enyémek
Icelandic: minn (is) m
Italian: il mio (it) m
Japanese: 私の (ja) (わたしの, watashi no), (humble) 私の (ja) (わたくしの, watakushi no)
Kabuverdianu: nha
Karakalpak: meniki
Karelian: minun
Kazakh: менікі (meniki)
Khakas: мини (mini)
Korean: 나의 것 (na-ui geot), 내 것 (nae geot), (humble) 저의 것 (jeo-ui geot)
Latin: meus (la), mei (la)
Latvian: mans m, manējs f
Macedonian: мој m (moj)
Malay: milik saya, kepunyaan saya (formal), milik aku, kepunyaan aku (milikku / kepunyaanku) (informal), milik daku, kepunyaan daku (poetic), milik hamba, kepunyaan hamba (by person of very low rankings), milik patik, kepunyaan patik (while facing royalties), milik beta, kepunyaan beta (by royalties)
Malayalam: എന്റെ (ml) (enṟe)
Manchu: ᠮᡳᠨ᠋ᡳᠩᡤᡝ (miningge)
Māori: nōhoku, nōku, nāhaku, nāku
Mazanderani: منی (mënê)
Mongolian:
Classical Mongolian: ᠮᠢᠨ᠋ᠤᠬᠡᠢ (minuqei)

Cyrillic: ᠮᠢᠨ᠋ᠤᠬᠢ (minuqi)

Mongolian script: минийх (miniix)
Nanai: мӣӈги (mīŋgi)
Norwegian: min (no) m
Persian: مال من (fa) (mâle man), مرا (fa) (marâ) (literary)
Pitjantjatjara: ngayuku
Polish: mój (pl)
Portuguese: meu (pt)
Romanian: al meu (ro)
Romansh: il mieu m, la mia f, ils mes m pl, las mias f pl,
Russian: мой (ru) m (moj)
Scottish Gaelic: agamsa, leamsa
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: мо̑ј

Latin: mȏj
Slovak: môj (sk)
Slovene: mój (sl)
Spanish: lo mío (es) m, de mí, mío (es)
Swedish: min (sv) c
Tagalog: akin (tl)
Tatar: минеке (mineke)
Thai: นของผม (th) m (kŏng pŏm), นของดิฉัน (th) f (kŏng dìchăn), (informal) นของฉัน (th)
Turkish: benim (tr)
Tuvan: мээңии (meeñii)
Ukrainian: мій (uk) (mij), моя́ (mojá)
Urdu: میرا (merā)
Uzbek: meniki
Vietnamese: của tôi (vi)
Woiwurrung: nooga-leek
Yakut: миэнэ (miene)
Zazaki: mı (diq)

Determiner

mine

(archaic or nonstandard) My; belonging to me.
- 1936 December 23, Hazel Livingston, “‘Love’s Litany’”, in Walter V. Hogan, editor, The Daily Reporter, volume XX, number 53, White Plains, N.Y.: White Plains Publishing Company, →OCLC, chapter IX, page 18, column 4:
  Well, then, fix it up nice, waiter, and make mine baked hash an’ mashed ’taters and stewed corn and waiter!—plain white bread, no fancy rolls!
1. Used attributively after the noun it modifies.
  - 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
    […] Flesh and blood, / You, brother mine, that entertain'd ambition, / […]
2. Used attributively before a vowel.
  - 1862 February, Julia Ward Howe, “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume IX, number LII, page 10:
    Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: / […]
  - 1930 Winter, Packard Motor Car Company, The Packard Magazine, Volume 9, Number 2, page 6,
    Mine host, it seemed, did favors for everybody...

Usage notes

My and mine are essentially two forms of the same word, with my being used attributively before the noun, and mine being used in all other cases, as may be seen in most of the usage examples and quotations above. In this respect, this word is analogous to most of the other possessive pronouns (e.g. your vs. yours), as well as a number of other noun modifiers, such as lone/alone.
Historically, my came to be used only before a consonant sound, and later came to be used regardless of the following sound. Nonetheless, mine still sees archaic pre-vocalic use, as may be seen in the 1862 quotation above, and in the most formal of writing even into the 20th century.

Derived terms

mine host

Etymology 2

From Middle English [Term?], from Old French mine, from Late Latin mina, from Gaulish (compare to Welsh mwyn, Irish mianach (“ore”)), from Proto-Celtic *meinis (“ore, metal”).

Noun

mine (plural mines)

An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels.
Hypernyms: place, site

Hyponyms: coal mine, coalmine; drift mine; gold mine, goldmine; open-pit mine; salt mine; strip-mine, strip mine; iron mine; powder mine; silver mine, silvermine; tin mine; urban mine

Meronyms: mine shaft, mineshaft; mine car

This diamond comes from a mine in South Africa.

He came out of the coal mine with a face covered in black.

Most coal and ore comes from open-pit mines nowadays.
(figurative) Any source of wealth or resources.
She's a mine of information about the history of mathematics.
- 1962 December, “Beyond the Channel: U.S.S.R.: Train speeds still rising”, in Modern Railways, page 418:
  To those seeking information about train services on the Continent, Cook's Continental Guide is always a mine of accurate information.
(military) A passage dug toward or underneath enemy lines, which is then packed with explosives.
The most famous mine of the American Civil War led to the Battle of the Crater.
(military) A device intended to explode when stepped upon or touched, or when approached by a ship, vehicle, or person.
Hypernyms: munition < weapon

Hyponyms: Bangalore mine; bounding mine; butterfly mine; land mine, landmine; limpet mine; magnetic mine; naval mine; proximity mine; proxy mine

Holonym: minefield

His left leg was blown off after he stepped on a mine.

The warship was destroyed by floating mines.
- 1940 May, “Overseas Railways: Icebound Denmark”, in Railway Magazine, page 302:
  Pack ice, at times mounting to a height of 35 ft., snow, fog, and floating mines all played their part in the disorganisation of railway services, and most of the train ferry services were completely suspended for a month or more; [...].
(pyrotechnics) A type of firework that explodes on the ground, shooting sparks upward.
(entomology) The cavity made by a caterpillar while feeding inside a leaf.
(computing) A machine or network of machines used to extract units of a cryptocurrency.
A change to the blockchain method was contemplated to allow mines to hog less electric power.

Derived terms

Descendants

→ Esperanto: mino
→ Māori: maina
→ Samoan: maina

Translations

excavation from which ore is extracted

Afrikaans: myn (af)
Albanian: minierë (sq) f, madem (sq) m
Amharic: ማዕድን m (maʿdən)
Arabic: مَنْجَم m (manjam), لَغَم m (laḡam), لَغَم m (laḡam), لُغْم m (luḡm)
Egyptian Arabic: لغم m (laḡam)

Hijazi Arabic: مَنْجَم m (manjam)
Armenian: հանք (hy) (hankʻ)
Assamese: খনি (khoni)
Azerbaijani: şaxta (az), mədən (az)
Belarusian: ша́хта f (šáxta), рудні́к m (rudník)
Breton: mengleuz (br) f
Bulgarian: ми́на (bg) f (mína), рудни́к (bg) m (rudník), рудни́ца f (rudníca)
Burmese: သတ္တုတွင်း (my) (sattu.twang:), မိုင်း (my) (muing:)
Catalan: mina (ca) f
Chichewa: mgodi
Chinese:
Mandarin: 礦山 / 矿山 (zh) (kuàngshān)
Czech: důl (cs) m
Danish: mine (da) c
Dutch: mijn (nl) f, groeve (nl) f
Esperanto: mino
Faroese: nám n
Finnish: kaivos (fi)
French: mine (fr) f
Galician: mina (gl) f
Georgian: მაღარო (maɣaro)
German: Grube (de) f, Mine (de) f, Bergwerk (de) n, Zeche (de) f, Tagebau (de) m (opencast mine), Abbaustelle (de) f, Schachtgrube f, Grub f, Pütt (de) m, Schachtanlage f
Greek: ορυχείο (el) n (orycheío), μεταλλείο (el) n (metalleío)
Ancient Greek: μέταλλον n (métallon)
Gujarati: ખાણ (gu) (khāṇ)
Hebrew: מִכְרֶה (he) m (mikhré)
Hindi: खान (hi) f (khān)
Hungarian: bánya (hu)
Icelandic: náma (is) f
Indonesian: tambang (id)
Irish: mianach m
Italian: miniera (it) f
Japanese: 鉱山 (ja) (こうざん, kōzan), (katakana) マイン (main)
Kashmiri: کھان (khān)
Kazakh: шахта (šaxta), кеніш (keniš)
Khmer: អណ្ដូងរ៉ែ (ʼɑndoung rae), រ៉ែ (rae), អណ្ដូង (km) (ʼɑndoung), លោហាករ (loohaakɑɑ)
Korean: 광산(鑛山) (ko) (gwangsan)
Kyrgyz: шахта (ky) (şahta), рудник (rudnik)
Lao: ບໍ່ແຮ່ (bǭ hǣ)
Latin: fodina f, metallum (la) n, (Medieval) minera
Latvian: raktuve f
Lithuanian: kasykla f
Macedonian: рудник (mk) m (rudnik), јама f (jama), коп m (kop)
Malay: lombong
Malayalam: ഖനി (ml) (khani)
Māori: huke, keringa
Mòcheno: gruab f
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: уурхай (mn) (uurxaj)
Navajo: haʼagééd
Norman: minne f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: gruve m or f

Nynorsk: gruve f
Occitan: mina (oc) f
Odia: ଖଣି (or) (khaṇi)
Pashto: معدن m (ma'dán), کان (ps) m (kān)
Persian: کان (fa) (kân), معدن (fa) (ma'dan), کانسار (fa) (kânsâr)
Plautdietsch: Gruft f, Mien f
Polish: kopalnia (pl) f
Portuguese: mina (pt) f
Quechua: qhuya
Romanian: mină (ro) f
Russian: ша́хта (ru) f (šáxta), рудни́к (ru) m (rudník)
Scottish Gaelic: mèinn f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: рудник m

Latin: rudnik (sh) m
Slovak: baňa f
Slovene: rudnik (sl) m
Spanish: mina (es) f
Swahili: shimo (sw), mgodi, chimbo (sw)
Swedish: gruva (sv) c
Tagalog: dukalan, mina, dulangan
Tajik: шахта (šaxta), маъдан (ma'dan)
Tày: bó
Telugu: గని (te) (gani)
Thai: เหมือง (th) (mʉ̌ʉang)
Tocharian B: taupe
Turkish: maden (tr), maden ocağı (tr)
Ottoman Turkish: معدن (maʿden)
Turkmen: şahta
Ukrainian: ша́хта f (šáxta), рудни́к m (rudnýk)
Urdu: کان f (kān), معدن m (ma'din)
Uyghur: كان (kan)
Uzbek: shaxta (uz), kon (uz), rudnik
Vietnamese: mỏ (vi)
Welsh: cloddfa f

source of wealth or resources

Esperanto: fonto (eo)
Finnish: aarreaitta (fi), kultakaivos (fi)
German: Quelle (de) f
Polish: kopalnia (pl) f
Portuguese: mina (pt) f
Swedish: guldgruva (sv) c

military: passage packed with explosives

Bulgarian: минно поле n (minno pole)
Esperanto: mino (eo)
Finnish: miina (fi)
Greek: ναρκοπέδιο (el) n (narkopédio)
Hindi: सुरंग (hi) (suraṅg)
Irish: mianach m
Kashmiri: سۄرَنٛگ (sọrang)
Korean: 갱도 (gaengdo)
Turkish: lağım (tr)

military: exploding device

Afrikaans: myn (af)
Albanian: minë (sq) f
Arabic: لَغْم m (laḡm), لَغَم m (laḡam), لُغْم m (luḡm)
Hijazi Arabic: لغم m (laḡam, luḡum)
Armenian: ական (hy) (akan)
Azerbaijani: mina (az)
Belarusian: мі́на f (mína)
Breton: min (br) m
Bulgarian: ми́на (bg) f (mína)
Burmese: မိုင်း (my) (muing:)
Catalan: mina (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 地雷 (zh) (dìléi)
Czech: mina (cs) f
Dutch: mijn (nl) f
Esperanto: mino
Estonian: miin
Finnish: miina (fi)
French: mine (fr) f
Georgian: მინა (mina), ნაღმი (naɣmi)
German: Mine (de) f
Greek: νάρκη (el) f (nárki)
Hebrew: מוֹקֵשׁ (he) m (mokésh)
Hindi: सुरंग बम m (suraṅg bam), बारूदी बम m (bārūdī bam)
Hungarian: akna (hu)
Icelandic: jarðsprengja (is) f
Indonesian: ranjau (id)
Ingrian: miina
Irish: mianach m
Italian: mina (it) f
Japanese: 地雷 (ja) (じらい, jirai)
Kashmiri: سۄرَنٛگ بَم (sọrang bam), باروٗدی بَم (bārūdy bam)
Kazakh: мина (mıyna)
Khmer: គ្រាប់មីន (krŏəp miin), មីន (km) (miin)
Korean: 지뢰(地雷) (ko) (jiroe)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: mayin (ku) f
Kyrgyz: мина (mina)
Lao: ລູກລະເບີດ (lūk la bœ̄t)
Latgalian: mina
Latvian: mīna f
Lithuanian: mina (lt) f
Macedonian: мина f (mina)
Māori: maina
Norman: minne f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: mine (no) m or f
Persian: مین (fa) (min)
Polish: mina (pl) f
Portuguese: mina (pt) f
Romanian: mină (ro) f
Russian: ми́на (ru) f (mína)
Samoan: maina
Scottish Gaelic: mèinn f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: мина f

Latin: mina (sh) f
Slovak: mina f
Slovene: mina (sl) f
Spanish: mina (es) f
Swedish: mina (sv) c
Tajik: мина (mina)
Thai: กับระเบิด (th) (gàp-rá-bə̀ət), กับ (th) (gàp), ทุ่นระเบิด
Turkish: mayın (tr)
Turkmen: mina
Ukrainian: мі́на f (mína)
Uzbek: mina (uz)
Vietnamese: mìn (vi)

type of firework

Breton: min (br) m
Finnish: miina (fi)
Italian: fuoco d'artificio m
Korean: 스타마인 (seutamain)

entomology: cavity made by caterpillar

Catalan: mina (ca) f
Finnish: miina (fi), koverre
Italian: cavità (it) f

computing: machine or network used to extract units of cryptocurrency

Finnish: louhintakone (machine)
Polish: koparka (pl) f (machine)

Verb

mine (third-person singular simple present mines, present participle mining, simple past and past participle mined)

(ambitransitive) To remove (rock or ore) from the ground.
Crater of Diamonds State Park is the only place in the world where visitors can mine their own diamonds.
To dig into, for ore or metal.
- 1837, Andrew Ure, Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines:
  Lead veins have been traced […] but they have not been mined.
(transitive) To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area).
We had to slow our advance after the enemy mined the road ahead of us.
(transitive) To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device).
(intransitive) To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth.
the mining cony
To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine.
- a. 1628 (date written), John Hayward, The Life, and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt, London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press, and J. Lichfield at Oxford?] for Iohn Partridge, […], published 1630, →OCLC:
  They mined the walls.
- 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:
  Too lazy, perhaps, to cut [these immense trees] down, the spoilers […] had mined them, and placed a quantity of gunpowder in the cavity.
(by extension, figurative) To ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
(by extension, figurative) To tap into.
(slang) To pick one's nose.
(cryptocurrencies) To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.
Coordinate term: mint
- 2021 March 9, Andrew Ross Sorkin, “Bitcoin's Climate Problem”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:
  Bitcoin supporters say that estimates of its carbon footprint are overstated. And if the computers that mine and help transact bitcoins are attached to an electric grid that uses wind and solar power, they add, mining and using it will become cleaner over time.

Derived terms

Translations

to remove ore from the ground

Arabic: لَغَمَ (laḡama)
Bulgarian: добивам (bg) (dobivam)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 開採 / 开采 (zh) (kāicǎi)
Czech: dolovat
Dutch: ontginnen (nl)
Esperanto: mini
Finnish: louhia (fi), kaivaa (fi)
French: extraire (fr)
German: fördern (de), abbauen (de)
Greek: εξορύσσω (el) (exorýsso), μεταλλεύω (el) (metallévo)
Hebrew: כָּרָה (he) (kará)
Hindi: खान खोदना (khān khodnā)
Italian: scavare (it), estrarre (it)
Kashmiri: کھان کھَنُن (khān khanun)
Khmer: ជីករករ៉ែ (chikrôkrê), យករ៉ែ (yŭəkrae), ធ្វើអាជីវកម្មបរ៉ែ (thveuʼachivkâmmôbârê)
Latin: effodere
Latvian: iegūt
Macedonian: рудари (rudari), копа (kopa)
Māori: huke
Mongolian: олборлох (mn) (olborlox)
Polish: wydobywać (pl)
Portuguese: explorar (pt), minar (pt), minerar (pt)
Russian: добыва́ть (ru) impf (dobyvátʹ), добы́ть (ru) pf (dobýtʹ)
Scots: howk
Scottish Gaelic: mèinn
Spanish: extraer (es), minar (es)
Swedish: bryta (sv)

to dig into, for ore or metal

Finnish: louhia (fi)
Russian: добыва́ть (ru) impf (dobyvátʹ), добы́ть (ru) pf (dobýtʹ)

to sow mines in

Azerbaijani: minalamaq
Bulgarian: минирам (bg) (miniram)
Catalan: minar (ca)
Czech: zaminovat, podminovat
Dutch: mijnen leggen
Esperanto: mini
Finnish: miinoittaa (fi)
Georgian: დანაღმვა (danaɣmva)
German: verminen (de)
Greek: ναρκοθετώ (el) (narkothetó)
Hebrew: מיקש / מִקֵּשׁ (mikésh)
Italian: minare (it)
Khmer: ដាក់មីន (dakmiin)
Latvian: mīnēt
Macedonian: мини́ра (miníra)
Norwegian: minelegge
Polish: minować, zaminować
Portuguese: minar (pt)
Romanian: mina (ro)
Russian: мини́ровать (ru) impf (minírovatʹ), замини́ровать (ru) pf (zaminírovatʹ)
Slovene: minirati
Spanish: minar (es)
Swedish: minera (sv)
Ukrainian: мінува́ти impf (minuváty), замінува́ти pf (zaminuváty)

to damage with a mine

Finnish: vaurioittaa miinalla, vahingoittaa miinalla (to damage); tuhota miinalla (to destroy)
Latvian: mīnēt, spridzināt
Macedonian: мини́ра (miníra)
Russian: подрыва́ть (ru) impf (podryvátʹ), подорва́ть (ru) pf (podorvátʹ)
Ukrainian: підрива́ти impf (pidryváty), підірва́ти pf (pidirváty)

to dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth

Finnish: kaivaa (fi) (to dig); kaivautua (fi) (to burrow); miinata (of leaf miners)

to remove the substratum or foundation of — see also undermine

Finnish: kaivaa kuoppa alle; kaivaa tunneli alle

to ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means

Finnish: nakertaa (fi)

to pick one's nose — see pick one's nose

computing: to earn new units of cryptocurrency

Chinese:
Mandarin: 挖礦 / 挖矿 (zh) (wākuàng)
Finnish: louhia (fi)
Russian: ма́йнить (ru) impf (májnitʹ)

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Breton: (1) ^{(please verify)} mengleuziañ, (2) ^{(please verify)} minañ

Etymology 3

Borrowed from French mine.

Noun

mine (plural mines)

Alternative form of mien.

Anagrams

Emin, Mien, mien

Aromanian

Pronoun

mine

alternative form of mini

Crimean Gothic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *mēnô.

Noun

mine

moon
- 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq:
  Mine. Luna.

Czech

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈmɪnɛ]
Rhymes: -ɪnɛ
Hyphenation: mi‧ne

Verb

mine

third-person singular future indicative of minout

Danish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /miːnə/, [ˈmiːnə], [ˈmiːn̩]

Noun

mine c (singular definite minen, plural indefinite miner)

Inflection

Declension of *mine*
common gender	singular		plural
common gender	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	mine	minen	miner	minerne
genitive	mines	minens	miners	minernes

Pronoun

mine

(possessive) plural of min

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /min/
Audio; “une mine”: (file)
Audio (France (Agen)): (file)
Audio (France (Vosges)): (file)
Audio (France (Vosges)): (file)
Audio (France (Lyon)): (file)
Audio (France (Somain)): (file)
Rhymes: -in
Homophones: minent, mines

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *(s)mēy(H)-

Proto-Indo-European *mēy(H)nis

Proto-Celtic *meinis

Gaulish *meinabor.

Vulgar Latin *mina

French mine

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *mina, Gaulish *meina (see also Welsh mwyn, Middle Irish míanach (“ore”)), from Proto-Celtic *meinis (“ore, metal”).

Noun

mine f (plural mines)

mine (excavation or explosive)
pencil lead
(soccer) piledriver, scorcher

Derived terms

Descendants

→ Crimean Tatar: mina
→ German: Mine
- → Bulgarian: ми́на (mína)
- → Polish: mina
- → Russian: ми́на (mína)
  - → Armenian: մինա (mina)
  - → Georgian: მინა (mina) (proscribed)
  - → Ingrian: miina
  - → Kazakh: мина (mıyna)
  - → Tajik: мина (mina)
→ Persian: مین (min)
→ Romanian: mină
→ Spanish: mina
- Chavacano: mina
- → Basque: mina
- → Finnish: miina
- → Tagalog: mina
→ Vietnamese: mìn

Etymology 2

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *(s)mēy(H)-

Proto-Indo-European *mēy(H)nis

Proto-Celtic *meinisder.

Breton minbor.

Latin miniōder.

Italian minader.

French mine

Borrowed from Breton min (“beak, muzzle”) (from Proto-Celtic *meinis, in the sense of "red"),^[1] or from Italian mina, from Latin miniō (“to redden”).^[2]

Noun

mine f (plural mines)

appearance, physical aspect; expression

Derived terms

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

From miner.

Verb

mine

inflection of miner:
1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
2. second-person singular imperative

References

^ Rea, J. & Rea, C. B. (1973): Circa instans, p. 401
^ Le Robert pour tous, Dictionnaire de la langue française, Janvier 2004, p. 727, mine1

Anagrams

mien

Irish

Pronunciation

(Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈmʲinʲə/^[1]
(Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈmʲɨnʲə/

Adjective

mine

inflection of mion:
1. genitive feminine singular
2. comparative degree

Noun

mine f

genitive singular of min

Mutation

Mutated forms of *mine*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
mine	mhine	not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

^ Finck, F. N. (1899), Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 194

Italian

Noun

mine f

plural of mina

Anagrams

meni

Japanese

Romanization

mine

Rōmaji transcription of みね

Middle Dutch

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French mine.

Noun

mine f

ore vein, mine

Inflection

Weak feminine noun
	singular	plural
nominative	mine	minen
accusative	mine	minen
genitive	mine, minen	minen
dative	mine, minen	minen

Descendants

Dutch: mijn
- Afrikaans: myn
Limburgish: mien

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Determiner

mine

inflection of mijn:
1. feminine nominative/accusative singular
2. nominative/accusative plural

Middle English

Determiner

mine (subjective pronoun I)

alternative form of min

Pronoun

mine (subjective I)

alternative form of min

Mokilese

Verb

mine

to exist

Antonyms

joh

References

Harrison, Sheldon P.; Albert, Salich Y. (1977), Mokilese-English Dictionary‎^[2], Honolulu: The University Press of Hawaii, →ISBN, page 153
Harrison, Sheldon P. (1976), Mokilese Reference Grammar‎^[3], Honolulu: The University Press of Hawaii

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

mine

Wikipedia ^no

Etymology

From Old Norse mínir, or from Old French mine.

Pronunciation

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Noun

mine f or m (definite singular mina or minen, indefinite plural miner, definite plural minene)

a mine (excavation or explosive)

Derived terms

Determiner

mine

plural of min

References

“mine” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
“min” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /²miːnə/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse mínir, or from Old French mine.

Noun

mine f (definite singular mina, indefinite plural miner, definite plural minene)

a mine (excavation or explosive)

Derived terms

minefelt

Etymology 2

Verb

mine (present tense minar/miner, past tense mina/minte, past participle mina/mint, passive infinitive minast, present participle minande, imperative mine/min)

alternative form of mina

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Determiner

mine

plural of min

Synonyms

mara (Rodi)

References

“mine” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
“min” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmiː.ne/
Rhymes: -iː.ne

Determiner

mīne

inflection of mīn:

Phuthi

Etymology

From Proto-Nguni *miná.

Pronoun

miné

I, me; first-person singular absolute pronoun.

Portuguese

Verb

mine

inflection of minar:
1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
2. third-person singular imperative

Romanian

Alternative forms

ми́нє — pre-1860s Cyrillic spelling
mn — Internet slang, text messaging

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmi.ne/
Rhymes: -ine
Hyphenation: mi‧ne

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin mē, possibly through a Vulgar Latin root *mēne, or through analogy with cine, from *quene, from quem. It also possibly acquired this ending through adopting the common Latin accusative inflection -inem. Compare tine, sine. Compare also Aromanian mini, Dalmatian main, Neapolitan mene.

Pronoun

mine (stressed accusative form of eu)

(direct object, preceded by preposition, such as pe, cu, la pentru) me
Mă iubești pe mine? ― Do you love me?

Related terms

mă (unstressed form)

Etymology 2

Noun

mine

inflection of mină (“mine”):
1. indefinite plural
2. indefinite genitive/dative singular

Scots

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English min, myn, from Old English mīn, from Proto-West Germanic *mīn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *méynos.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /məin/

Determiner

mine

my (used before a vowel and h-)
Synonym: my

Pronoun

mine

mine

References

“mine, poss. pron.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 23 May 2024, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.
“mine, possess. pron.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 23 May 2024, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

mine f

genitive singular of min

Mutation

Mutation of *mine*
radical	lenition
mine	mhine

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Sidamo

Etymology

From Proto-Cushitic *min- (“house, to build”). Cognates include Oromo mana, Burji mina and Hadiyya mine.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmine/
Hyphenation: mi‧ne

Noun

mine m (plural minna f)

References

Kazuhiro Kawachi (2007), A grammar of Sidaama (Sidamo), a Cushitic language of Ethiopia, page 62
Gizaw Shimelis, editor (2007), “mine”, in Sidaama-Amharic-English dictionary, Addis Ababa: Sidama Information and Culture department

Spanish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmine/ [ˈmi.ne]
Rhymes: -ine
Syllabification: mi‧ne

Verb

mine

inflection of minar:
1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
2. third-person singular imperative

Swazi

Etymology

From Proto-Nguni *miná.

Pronoun

miné

I, me; first-person singular absolute pronoun.

Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish مینه, from Arabic مِينَا (mīnā), from Middle Persian 𐫖𐫏𐫗𐫇𐫃 (mynwg /⁠mēnōg⁠/, “heaven, paradise; *emerald; *glass”), from Avestan 𐬨𐬀𐬌𐬥𐬌𐬌𐬎 (maⁱniiu, “spirit”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /miˈne/
Hyphenation: mi‧ne

Noun

mine (definite accusative mineyi, plural mineler)

glaze
Synonyms: sır, cila
enamel
Synonym: sır
enamel, the hard covering on the exposed part of a tooth
ellipsis of mine çiçeği

Declension

Declension of mine

	singular	plural
nominative	mine	mineler
definite accusative	mineyi	mineleri
dative	mineye	minelere
locative	minede	minelerde
ablative	mineden	minelerden
genitive	minenin	minelerin

Possessive forms
nominative
	singular	plural
1st singular	minem	minelerim
2nd singular	minen	minelerin
3rd singular	minesi	mineleri
1st plural	minemiz	minelerimiz
2nd plural	mineniz	mineleriniz
3rd plural	mineleri	mineleri
definite accusative
	singular	plural
1st singular	minemi	minelerimi
2nd singular	mineni	minelerini
3rd singular	minesini	minelerini
1st plural	minemizi	minelerimizi
2nd plural	minenizi	minelerinizi
3rd plural	minelerini	minelerini
dative
	singular	plural
1st singular	mineme	minelerime
2nd singular	minene	minelerine
3rd singular	minesine	minelerine
1st plural	minemize	minelerimize
2nd plural	minenize	minelerinize
3rd plural	minelerine	minelerine
locative
	singular	plural
1st singular	minemde	minelerimde
2nd singular	minende	minelerinde
3rd singular	minesinde	minelerinde
1st plural	minemizde	minelerimizde
2nd plural	minenizde	minelerinizde
3rd plural	minelerinde	minelerinde
ablative
	singular	plural
1st singular	minemden	minelerimden
2nd singular	minenden	minelerinden
3rd singular	minesinden	minelerinden
1st plural	minemizden	minelerimizden
2nd plural	minenizden	minelerinizden
3rd plural	minelerinden	minelerinden
genitive
	singular	plural
1st singular	minemin	minelerimin
2nd singular	minenin	minelerinin
3rd singular	minesinin	minelerinin
1st plural	minemizin	minelerimizin
2nd plural	minenizin	minelerinizin
3rd plural	minelerinin	minelerinin

Predicative forms
	singular	plural
1st singular	mineyim	minelerim
2nd singular	minesin	minelersin
3rd singular	mine minedir	mineler minelerdir
1st plural	mineyiz	mineleriz
2nd plural	minesiniz	minelersiniz
3rd plural	mineler	minelerdir

Derived terms

Anagrams

emin, inme, meni

[1] Rea, J. & Rea, C. B. (1973): Circa instans, p. 401

[2] Le Robert pour tous, Dictionnaire de la langue française, Janvier 2004, p. 727, mine1

[3] Finck, F. N. (1899), Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 194

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[2]

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Number	Person	Type	Nominative	Oblique	Possessive
Number	Person	Type	Nominative	Oblique	common	neuter	plural
Singular	First	–	jeg	mig	min	mit	mine
	Second	modern / informal	du	dig	din	dit	dine
	Second	formal (uncommon)	De	Dem	Deres
	Third	masculine (person)	han	ham	hans
		feminine (person)	hun	hende	hendes
		common (noun)	den		dens
		neuter (noun)	det		dets
		indefinite	man	en	ens
		reflexive	–	sig	sin	sit	sine
Plural	First	modern	vi	os	vores
	First	archaic / formal	vi	os	vor	vort	vore
	Second	–	I	jer	jeres
	Third	–	de	dem	deres
	Third	reflexive	–	sig	deres

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

Pronoun

Derived terms

Translations

See also

Determiner

Usage notes

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Noun

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

Verb

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 3

Noun

Anagrams

Aromanian

Pronoun

Crimean Gothic

Etymology

Noun

Czech

Pronunciation

Verb

Danish

Pronunciation

Noun

Inflection

Pronoun

See also

French

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

Derived terms

Descendants

Etymology 2

Noun

Derived terms

Etymology 3

Verb

Further reading

References

Anagrams

Irish

Pronunciation

Adjective

Noun

Mutation

References

Italian

Noun

Anagrams

Japanese

Romanization

Middle Dutch

Etymology 1

Noun

Inflection

Descendants

Etymology 2

Determiner

Further reading

Middle English

Determiner

Pronoun

Mokilese

Verb

Antonyms

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun