Noun

minar (plural minars)Category:English lemmas#MINARCategory:English nouns#MINARCategory:English countable nouns#MINARCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#MINARCategory:Pages with entries#MINARCategory:Pages with 6 entries#MINAR

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.

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [miˈna]Category:Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation#MINAR
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [miˈnaɾ]Category:Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation#MINAR

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Verb

minar (first-person singular present mino, first-person singular preterite miní, past participle minat)Category:Catalan lemmas#MINARCategory:Catalan verbs#MINARCategory:Catalan first conjugation verbs#MINARCategory:Catalan entries with incorrect language header#MINARCategory:Pages with entries#MINARCategory:Pages with 6 entries#MINAR

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

Further reading

• “minar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “minar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “minar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “minar”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Verb

minarCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk non-lemma forms#MINARCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk verb forms#MINARCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk entries with incorrect language header#MINARCategory:Pages with entries#MINARCategory:Pages with 6 entries#MINAR

1. present of mina

Etymology

From mina +‎ -arCategory:Occitan terms suffixed with -ar#MINAR.

Pronunciation

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Verb

minarCategory:Occitan lemmas#MINARCategory:Occitan verbs#MINARCategory:Occitan entries with incorrect language header#MINARCategory:Pages with entries#MINARCategory:Pages with 6 entries#MINARCategory:Occitan first group verbs#MINAR

1. to mine

Conjugation

    Lengadocian (Central Occitan)

		simple			compound
infinitive		minar			aver minat
gerund		minant			use gerund of aver + past participle
past participle		minat			—
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		ieu	tu	el	nosautres	vosautres	eles
	present	mini	minas	mina	minam	minatz	minan
	imperfect	minavi	minavas	minava	minàvem	minàvetz	minavan
	preterite	minèri	minères	minèt	minèrem	minèretz	minèron
	future	minarai	minaràs	minarà	minarem	minaretz	minaràn
	conditional	minariái	minariás	minariá	minariam	minariatz	minarián
	conditional 2nd form1	minèra	minèras	minèra	mineram	mineratz	minèran
compound tenses	present perfect	use the present tense of aver + past participle
	pluperfect	use the imperfect tense of aver + past participle
	past anterior	use the preterite tense of aver + past participle
	future perfect	use the future tense of aver + past participle
	conditional perfect	use the conditional tense of aver + past participle
subjunctive		que ieu	que tu	que el	que nosautres	que vosautres	que eles
	present	mine	mines	mine	minem	minetz	minen
	imperfect	minèssi	minèsses	minèsse	minèssem	minèssetz	minèsson
compound tenses	past	use the present subjunctive of aver + past participle
	pluperfect	use the imperfect subjunctive of aver + past participle
imperative		—	tu	—	nosautres	vosautres	—
			mina		minem	minatz	1Now chiefly obsolete, still in use in some Limousin and Vivaro-Alpin dialects

    Auvernhàs

		simple			compound
infinitive		minar			aver minat
gerund		minant			use gerund of aver + past participle
past participle		minat			—
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		ieu	tu	el	nosautres	vosautres	eles
	present	mine	mines	mina	minam	minatz	minon
	imperfect	minave	minaves	minava	minaviam	minaviatz	minavon
	preterite	minere	mineres	minet	minem	minetz	mineron
	future	minarai	minaràs	minará	minarem	minaretz	minarán
	conditional	minariá	minariás	minariá	minariam	minariatz	minarián
	conditional 2nd form1	minèra	minèras	minèra	mineram	mineratz	minèran
compound tenses	present perfect	use the present tense of aver + past participle
	pluperfect	use the imperfect tense of aver + past participle
	past anterior	use the preterite tense of aver + past participle
	future perfect	use the future tense of aver + past participle
	conditional perfect	use the conditional tense of aver + past participle
subjunctive		que ieu	que tu	que el	que nosautres	que vosautres	que eles
	present	mine	mines	mine	minassiam	minassiatz	minon
	imperfect	minesse	minesses	minesse	minessiam	minessiatz	minesson
compound tenses	past	use the present subjunctive of aver + past participle
	pluperfect	use the imperfect subjunctive of aver + past participle
imperative		—	tu	—	nosautres	vosautres	—
			mina		minassiam	minatz	1Now chiefly obsolete, still in use in some Limousin and Vivaro-Alpin dialects

    Gascon

		simple			compound
infinitive		minar			aver minat
gerund		minant			use gerund of aver + past participle
past participle		minat			—
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		ieu	tu	el	nosautres	vosautres	eles
	present	mini	minas	mina	minam	minatz	minan
	imperfect	minavi	minavas	minava	minàvam	minàvatz	minavan
	preterite	minèi	minès	minè	minèm	minètz	minèn
	future	minarèi	minaràs	minarà	minaram	minaratz	minaràn
	conditional	minarí	minarés	minaré	minarem	minaretz	minarén
	conditional 2nd form1	minèra	minèras	minèra	mineram	mineratz	minèran
compound tenses	present perfect	use the present tense of aver + past participle
	pluperfect	use the imperfect tense of aver + past participle
	past anterior	use the preterite tense of aver + past participle
	future perfect	use the future tense of aver + past participle
	conditional perfect	use the conditional tense of aver + past participle
subjunctive		que ieu	que tu	que el	que nosautres	que vosautres	que eles
	present	mini	mines	mine	minem	minetz	minen
	imperfect	minèssi	minèsses	minèsse	minèssem	minèssetz	minèssen
compound tenses	past	use the present subjunctive of aver + past participle
	pluperfect	use the imperfect subjunctive of aver + past participle
imperative		—	tu	—	nosautres	vosautres	—
			mina		minem	minatz	1Now chiefly obsolete, still in use in some Limousin and Vivaro-Alpin dialects

    Lemosin

		simple			compound
infinitive		minar			aver minat
gerund		minant			use gerund of aver + past participle
past participle		minat			—
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		ieu	tu	el	nosautres	vosautres	eles
	present	mine	minas	mina	minam	minatz	minan
	imperfect	minava	minavas	minava	minàvam	minàvatz	minavan
	preterite	minei	mineras	minet	minèram	minèratz	mineran
	future	minarai	minaràs	minará	minarem	minaretz	minarán
	conditional	minariá	minariàs	minariá	minariam	minariatz	minarián
	conditional 2nd form1	minèra	minèras	minèra	mineram	mineratz	minèran
compound tenses	present perfect	use the present tense of aver + past participle
	pluperfect	use the imperfect tense of aver + past participle
	past anterior	use the preterite tense of aver + past participle
	future perfect	use the future tense of aver + past participle
	conditional perfect	use the conditional tense of aver + past participle
subjunctive		que ieu	que tu	que el	que nosautres	que vosautres	que eles
	present	mine	mines	mine	minem	minetz	minen
	imperfect	minèsse	minèsses	minèsse	minèssem	minèssetz	minèssen
compound tenses	past	use the present subjunctive of aver + past participle
	pluperfect	use the imperfect subjunctive of aver + past participle
imperative		—	tu	—	nosautres	vosautres	—
			mina		minem	minatz	1Now chiefly obsolete, still in use in some Limousin and Vivaro-Alpin dialects

    Provençau

		simple			compound
infinitive		minar			aver minat
gerund		minant			use gerund of aver + past participle
past participle		minat			—
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		ieu	tu	el	nosautres	vosautres	eles
	present	mine	mines	mina	minam	minatz	minan
	imperfect	minavi	minavas	minava	minàvem	minàvetz	minavan
	preterite	minère	minères	minèt	mineriam	mineriatz	minèron
	future	minarai	minaràs	minarà	minarem	minaretz	minaràn
	conditional	minariáu	minariás	minariá	minariam	minariatz	minarián
	conditional 2nd form1	minèra	minèras	minèra	mineram	mineratz	minèran
compound tenses	present perfect	use the present tense of aver + past participle
	pluperfect	use the imperfect tense of aver + past participle
	past anterior	use the preterite tense of aver + past participle
	future perfect	use the future tense of aver + past participle
	conditional perfect	use the conditional tense of aver + past participle
subjunctive		que ieu	que tu	que el	que nosautres	que vosautres	que eles
	present	mine	mines	mine	minem	minetz	minan
	imperfect	minèsse	minèsses	minèsse	minessiam	minessiatz	minèsson
compound tenses	past	use the present subjunctive of aver + past participle
	pluperfect	use the imperfect subjunctive of aver + past participle
imperative		—	tu	—	nosautres	vosautres	—
			mina		minem	minatz	1Now chiefly obsolete, still in use in some Limousin and Vivaro-Alpin dialects

Category:Occitan verbs

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: mi‧nar

Verb

minar (first-person singular present mino, first-person singular preterite minei, past participle minado)Category:Portuguese lemmas#MINARCategory:Portuguese verbs#MINARCategory:Portuguese verbs ending in -ar#MINARCategory:Portuguese entries with incorrect language header#MINARCategory:Pages with entries#MINARCategory:Pages with 6 entries#MINAR

1. to mine (to extract ore from the ground)
2. (transitiveCategory:Portuguese transitive verbs#MINAR) 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)

Further reading

• “minar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “minar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Etymology

From LatinCategory:Spanish terms derived from Latin#MINAR mina (“mine”), from Ancient GreekCategory:Spanish terms derived from Ancient Greek#MINAR μνᾶ (mnâ, “100 drachmas”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miˈnaɾ/ [miˈnaɾ]Category:Spanish 2-syllable words#MINARCategory:Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation#MINAR
• Rhymes: -aɾCategory:Rhymes:Spanish/aɾ#MINARCategory:Rhymes:Spanish/aɾ/2 syllables#MINAR
• Syllabification: mi‧nar

Verb

minar (first-person singular present mino, first-person singular preterite miné, past participle minado)Category:Spanish lemmas#MINARCategory:Spanish verbs#MINARCategory:Spanish verbs ending in -ar#MINARCategory:Spanish entries with incorrect language header#MINARCategory:Pages with entries#MINARCategory:Pages with 6 entries#MINAR

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

Further reading

• “minar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025