ملن

Arabic

Verb

مِلْنَ • (milna) (form I) /mil.na/

1. inflection of مَالَ (māla):
   1. third-person feminine plural past active/passive
   2. second-person feminine plural imperative

Urdu

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit मिलन (milana).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /mɪ.lən/

Noun

مِلَن • (milan) m (Hindi spelling मिलन)

1. meeting, encounter
2. mixing, union
3. joining, contact

Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit मलिन (malina).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /mə.lɪn/

Adjective

مَلِن • (malin) (Hindi spelling मलिन) (rare)

1. dirty, filthy, foul, impure, soiled, unclean
2. tarnished, stained, sullied, tainted, rusty, polluted, depraved, sinful, bad, vile, vicious
3. black, dark, obscure, obscured, beclouded
4. dull, dim

References

• Platts, John T. (1884) “malin”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.