Definitions for minas

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minas mi·na

Spelling: [mahy-nuh]

IPA: /ˈmaɪ nə/

Minas is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 86 anagrams from letters in minas (aimns).

Definitions for minas

noun

1. an ancient unit of weight and value equal to the sixtieth part of a talent.
2. myna.
3. any of several Asian birds of the starling family Sturnidae, especially those of the genera Acridotheres and Gracula, certain species of which have the ability to mimic speech and are kept as pets.

Origin of minas

1570-80; Latin Greek mnâ Semitic; compare Hebrew māneh mina

Examples for minas

So do investigators in Belo Horizonte, a big city in the state of minas Gerais, where Bruno grew up.

An Italian bought him for a brotherhood in Magna Graecia for ten minas.

"And more costly still to Portugal," croaked the Marquis of minas.

As yet there is no direct road from place to place, but by the shores of the Basin of minas.

minas also produces lead, but this, too, has suffered from considerable neglect.

Oh, he had to go and build a new home in the Basin of minas.

Alcibiades had a dog which cost him seventy minas, and was very large and handsome.

The Basin of minas could be easily reached at high tide by boat.

minas, to the north of Maldonado, has a population of about sixty thousand.

As you ask me,” replied Hippocles, “I may say that it costs about two minas a yard.