FromMiddle English min myn Old English mīn Proto-West Germanic *mīn Proto-Germanic *mīnaz Proto-Indo-European *méynos
Cognate withSaterland Frisian mien West Frisian myn Dutch mijn Low German mien German mein Danish Swedish Norwegian min Icelandic mín
mine (plural mine
That or those belonging tome .Used predicatively. The house itself ismine , but the land is not.
These books aremine .
1905 ,
E. M. Forster ,
Where Angels Fear to Tread , chapter 7:
"Ah, but how beautiful (my baby boy) is! And he ismine ,mine for ever. Even if he hates me he will bemine . He cannot help it, he is made out of me; I am his father." Used substantively, with an implied noun. Mine has been a long journey.
Used absolutely, set off from the sentence. Mine for only a week so far, it already feels like an old friend.
( informal ) We had the party atmine .
Asdouble possessive . This house ofmine is over 100 years old.
that which belongs to me
Afrikaans:myne (af) 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 ) Bikol Central:sako (bcl) ,sakuya (bcl) Breton:ma hini (br) sg ma re pl Bulgarian:мой (bg) ( moj ) Buryat:миниихи ( miniixi ) ,миниихин ( miniixin ) Catalan:el meu m la meva f Chinese:Mandarin:我的 (zh) ( wǒ de ) Coptic:Bohairic:ⲫⲱⲓ m ( phōi ) ,ⲑⲱⲓ f ( thōi ) ,ⲛⲟⲩⲓ pl ( noui ) Sahidic:ⲡⲱⲓ m ( pōi ) ,ⲧⲱⲓ f ( tōi ) ,ⲛⲟⲩⲓ pl ( noui ) Czech:můj (cs) m Dalmatian:maja Danish:min (da) m Dolgan:миньиэнэ ( mińiene ) Dutch: demijne (nl) , hetmijne (nl) Egyptian:( Late Egyptian ) (pꜣy .j m ( Late Egyptian ) (tꜣy .j f ( Late Egyptian ) (nꜣy .j pl Esperanto: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:( 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 ( menıkı ) Khakas:мини ( mini ) Korean:나 의것 ( na-ui geot ) ,내 것 ( nae geot ) ,( humble ) 저 의것 ( 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 ) Maori:nōhoku nōku nāhaku nāku Mazanderani:منی ( mënê ) Mongolian:Classical Mongolian:ᠮᠢᠨ᠋ᠤᠬᠡᠢ ( minukei ) Cyrillic:ᠮᠢᠨ᠋ᠤᠬᠢ ( minuki ) Mongolian:минийх ( miniix ) Moroccan Amazigh:ⵡⵉⵏⵓ ( winu ) Nanai:мӣӈги ( mīŋgi ) Ngazidja Comorian:-ahangu 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) Russian:мой (ru) m ( moj ) Scottish Gaelic:agamsa leamsa Serbo-Croatian:Cyrillic:мо̑ј Roman:mȏj Slovak:môj (sk) Slovene:mój (sl) Southern Altai:мендийи ( mendiyi ) 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 ) Vietnamese:của tôi (vi) Woiwurrung:nooga-leek Yakut:миэнэ ( miene ) Zazaki:mı (diq)
English personal pronouns Dialectal and obsolete or archaic forms are initalics .
mine
( archaic ) My ; belonging tome .Used attributively after the noun it modifies. 1610–1611 (date written)William Shakespeare , “The Tempest ”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [ … ] (First Folio ), London: [ … ] Isaac Iaggard , andEd[ ward] Blount , published1623 ,→OCLC [ Act V, scene i] :[ …] mine , that entertain'd ambition, /[ …]
Used attributively before a vowel. 1930 Winter, Packard Motor Car Company,The Packard Magazine , Volume 9, Number 2, page 6,Mine host, it seemed, did favors for everybody...My mine are essentially two forms of the same word, withmy being usedattributively before the noun, andmine 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 yours 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. FromMiddle English Old French mine Late Latin mina Gaulish Welsh mwyn Irish mianach ( “ ore ” ) ), fromProto-Celtic *meinis ( “ ore, metal ” ) .
mine (plural mines
Entrance to a gold mine in Victoria, Australia Cutaway view of an anti-tank landmine Anexcavation from whichore orsolid minerals are taken, especially one consisting ofunderground tunnels .Hyponyms: coal mine ,coalmine drift mine gold mine ,goldmine open-pit mine salt mine strip-mine ,strip mine iron mine powder mine silver mine tin mine urban mine Meronyms: mine shaft ,mineshaft mine car This diamond comes from amine in South Africa. He came out of the coalmine with a face covered in black. Most coal and ore comes from open-pitmines nowadays. ( figurative ) source ofwealth orresources .She's amine of information about the history of mathematics. 1962 Modern Railways , page418 :To those seeking information about train services on the Continent,Cook's Continental Guide is always amine of accurate information.
( military ) passage dugtoward orunderneath enemy lines , which is thenpacked withexplosives .The most famousmine of the American Civil War led to the Battle of the Crater.
( military ) device intended toexplode whenstepped upon ortouched , or whenapproached by aship ,vehicle , orperson .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 amine . The warship was destroyed by floatingmines . 1940 Railway Magazine , page302 :Pack ice, at times mounting to a height of 35 ft., snow, fog, and floatingmines 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 ) firework thatexplodes on theground ,shooting sparks upward .( entomology ) cavity made by acaterpillar whilefeeding inside aleaf .( computing ) machine ornetwork of machines used toextract units of acryptocurrency .A change to the blockchain method was contemplated to allowmines to hog less electric power.
excavation from which ore is extracted
Afrikaans:myn Albanian:minierë (sq) f madem (sq) m 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) f Schachtanlage f Greek:ορυχείο (el) n ( orycheío ) ,μεταλλείο (el) n ( metalleío ) Ancient: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 ) Kazakh:шахта ( şaxta ) ,кеніш ( kenış ) 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 ) Maori: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 ) Ottoman Turkish:معدن ( maʿden ) 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 Roman: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 ( maʾdan ) Telugu:గని (te) ( gani ) Thai:เหมือง (th) ( mʉ̌ʉang ) Tocharian B:taupe Turkish:maden (tr) ,maden ocağı (tr) Turkmen:şahta Tày:bó 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
military: passage packed with explosives
military: exploding device
entomology: cavity made by caterpillar
computing: machine or network used to extract units of cryptocurrency
mine (third-person singular simple present mines present participle mining simple past and past participle mined
( ambitransitive ) remove (rock orore ) from theground .Crater of Diamonds State Park is the only place in the world where visitors canmine their own diamonds.Todig into, forore ormetal .1837 Andrew Ure ,Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines :Lead veins have been traced[ …] mined .
( transitive ) sow mines (theexplosive devices) in (an area).We had to slow our advance after the enemymined the road ahead of us. ( transitive ) damage (avehicle orship ) with amine (an explosive device).( intransitive ) tunnel orhole ; toburrow in theearth .themining cony Todig away, or otherwiseremove , thesubstratum orfoundation of; to lay amine under; tosap ; toundermine .a. 1628 (date written),John Hayward ,The Life, and Raigne of KingEdward the Sixt , London: [ … ] [ Eliot’s Court Press, and J. Lichfield at Oxford?] for Iohn Partridge, [ … ] 1630 ,→OCLC Theymined the walls.
1814 July 7, [Walter Scott ],Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. [ … ] (please specify |volume=I to III) , Edinburgh: [ … ] James Ballantyne and Co. forArchibald Constable and Co. ; London:Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown ,→OCLC Too lazy, perhaps, to cut [these immense trees] down, the spoilers[ …] mined them, and placed a quantity of gunpowder in the cavity.
( by extension, figurative ) ruin ordestroy byslow degrees orsecret means .( by extension, figurative ) tap into .( slang ) pick one's nose .( cryptocurrencies ) earn new units ofcryptocurrency by doing certaincalculations .Coordinate term: mint 2021 March 9, Andrew Ross Sorkin, “Bitcoin's Climate Problem”, inThe New York Times [1] →ISSN Bitcoin supporters say that estimates of its carbon footprint are overstated. And if the computers thatmine 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.
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) 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) Khmer:ជីករករ៉ែ ( chikrôkrê ) ,យករ៉ែ ( yŭəkrae ) ,ធ្វើអាជីវកម្មបរ៉ែ ( thveuʼachivkâmmôbârê ) Latin:effodere Latvian:iegūt Macedonian:рудари ( rudari ) ,копа ( kopa ) Maori: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
to dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth
to remove the substratum or foundation of
—see also undermine to ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means
computing: to earn new units of cryptocurrency
Translations to be checked
Borrowed fromFrench mine
mine (plural mines
Alternative form ofmien mine
Alternative form ofmini FromProto-Germanic *mēnô
mine
moon 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq:Mine . Luna. mine
third-person singular future indicative ofminout IPA (key ) : /miːnə/ ,[ˈmiːnə] ,[ˈmiːn̩] mine c singular definite minen plural indefinite miner
look ,air ,mien ( military ) mine pit mine
( possessive ) plural ofmin Inherited fromVulgar Latin *mina ,Gaulish *meina (see alsoWelsh mwyn Irish míanach ( “ ore ” ) ), fromProto-Celtic *meinis ( “ ore, metal ” ) .
mine f plural mines
mine ( excavation or explosive ) pencil lead ( soccer ) piledriver ,scorcher → Persian:مین ( min ) → Vietnamese:mìn Borrowed fromBreton min ( “ beak, muzzle ” ) (fromProto-Celtic *meinis [ 1] Italian mina Latin miniō ( “ to redden ” ) .[ 2]
mine f plural mines
appearance , physical aspect;expression Fromminer
mine
inflection ofminer first / third-person singular present indicative / subjunctive second-person singular imperative ^ Rea, J. & Rea, C. B. (1973): Circa instans, p. 401 ^ Le Robert pour tous, Dictionnaire de la langue françaisemine
inflection ofmion genitive feminine singular comparative degree mine f
genitive singular ofmin Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
mine f
plural ofmina mine
Rōmaji transcription ofみね Borrowed fromOld French mine
mine f
ore vein ,mine This noun needs aninflection-table template .
See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
mine
inflection ofmijn feminine nominative / accusative singular nominative / accusative plural mine (subjective pronoun I
Alternative form ofmin mine (subjective I
Alternative form ofmin mine
toexist FromOld Norse mínir Old French mine
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mine f or m definite singular mina or minen indefinite plural miner definite plural minene
amine ( excavation or explosive ) mine
plural ofmin “mine” inThe Bokmål Dictionary .“min” inThe Bokmål Dictionary .FromOld Norse mínir Old French mine
mine f definite singular mina indefinite plural miner definite plural minene
amine ( excavation or explosive ) mine (present tense minar /miner past tense mina /minte past participle mina /mint passive infinitive minast present participle minande imperative mine /min
Alternative form ofmina See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
mine
plural ofmin “mine” inThe Nynorsk Dictionary .“min” inThe Nynorsk Dictionary .mīne
inflection ofmīn accusative feminine singular instrumental masculine / neuter singular nominative / accusative masculine / feminine plural FromProto-Nguni *miná
miné
I ,me ;first-person singular absolute pronoun. mine
inflection ofminar first / third-person singular present subjunctive third-person singular imperative Inherited fromLatin mē Vulgar Latin *mēne , or through analogy withcine quene , fromquem -inem . Comparetine sine Aromanian mini Dalmatian main Neapolitan mene
mine (stressedaccusative form of eu
( direct object, preceded by preposition, such aspe cu la pentru ) me Mă iubești pemine ? ―Do you loveme ? mine
inflection ofmină ( “ mine ” ) indefinite plural indefinite genitive / dative singular Inherited fromMiddle English min myn Old English mīn Proto-West Germanic *mīn Proto-Germanic *mīnaz Proto-Indo-European *méynos
mine
my ( used before a vowel andh- ) Synonym: my mine
mine Scots personal pronouns
personal pronoun possessive possessive subjective objective reflexive first person singular A I Ik me mysel mine mines mine my plural we us we oorsel oorsels oors our second person singular standard (formal) ye you yow ye you yow yersel yoursel yers yours yer your Insular (informal)thoo thee thysel theesel thines thy thee thees plural ye yese you youse ye yese you youse theer yesels yoursels yers yours yer your third person singular masculine he e him im himsel hissel his is his is feminine scho she shu her er hersel hers her er neuter it hit it hit itsel hitsel its hits its hits genderless, nonspecific ane ane – – ane's plural thay thaim thaimsel thaimsels thairs thair
“mine,poss. pron. ”, inThe Dictionary of the Scots Language Scottish Language Dictionaries , 2004–present,→OCLC 23 May 2024 , reproduced from W[ illiam] Grant and D[ avid] D. Murison, editors,The Scottish National Dictionary Scottish National Dictionary Association , 1931–1976,→OCLC “mine,possess. pron. ”, inThe Dictionary of the Scots Language Scottish Language Dictionaries , 2004–present,→OCLC 23 May 2024 , reproduced fromWilliam A[ lexander] Craigie ,A[ dam] J[ ack] Aitken [ et al. ] , editors,A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: [ … ] Oxford University Press , 1931–2002,→OCLC mine f
genitive singular ofmin Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
Mine (1). FromProto-Cushitic *min- ( “ house, to build ” ) . Cognates includeOromo mana Burji mina Hadiyya mine
IPA (key ) : /ˈmine/ Hyphenation:mi‧ne mine m (plural minna f
house household Kazuhiro Kawachi (2007 )A grammar of Sidaama (Sidamo), a Cushitic language of Ethiopia , page62 Gizaw Shimelis, editor (2007 ), “mine”, inSidaama-Amharic-English dictionary , Addis Ababa: Sidama Information and Culture department IPA (key ) : /ˈmine/ [ˈmi.ne] Rhymes:-ine Syllabification:mi‧ne mine
inflection ofminar first / third-person singular present subjunctive third-person singular imperative FromProto-Nguni *miná
miné
I ,me ;first-person singular absolute pronoun. 
