Senses
1. city, town — An inhabited settlement or urban center, used for both individual cities and groups of cities, with no semantic distinction across grammatical inflections (articles, prepositions, pronominal suffixes, singular/plural, conjunction waw); Arabic مدينة/مدن, Korean 성읍/성, and Swahili mji/miji are uniform throughout all 1093 occurrences. 1093×
AR["المَدينَةَ","المَدينَةِ","الْ-مَدِينَةَ","الْ-مَدِينَةِ","الْمَدِينَةَ","الْمَدِينَةُ","الْمَدِينَةِ"]·ben["-নগর","-নগরকে","-নগরের","-শহরে","নগর","নগরকে","নগরের","বেরশেবা","শহর","শহরের","সেই-নগরের"]·DE["Stadt","der-Stadt","die-Stadt"]·EN["the-city"]·FR["la-ville","le-ville"]·heb["ה-עיר","ל-ה-לעיר","ל-ה-עיר"]·HI["को","नगर","नगर-की","नगर-के","नगरि","नगरि-क","नगरि-के","शहर-का"]·ID["kota","kota-itu"]·IT["il-citta","il-città","la-città"]·jav["kitha","kitha-punika","kutha","kutha-punika","punika"]·KO["그-도시","그-성","그-성에","그-성을","그-성읍의","그-성의","도시의","성을","성음의","성읍","성읍을","성읍의","성읍이"]·PT["Be'er-Sheva'","a-cidade","da-cidade","para-a-cidade"]·RU["-город","-города","город","города"]·ES["la-ciudad"]·SW["ata","jiji","mji","mji-wa","wa-jiji","wa-mji","wote"]·TR["-kentin","-şehir","-şehirden","-şehri","-şehrin","kentin","şehirden","şehri","şehrin"]·urd["-شہر-کا","-شہر-کے","شہر","شہر-سے","شہر-کا","شہر-کی","شہر-کے"]
BDB / Lexicon Reference
II. עִיר1092 n.f. Gn 10:12 (AlbrechtZAW xvi. 49 f.) city, town (√ unkn.; NH id.;? Ph. ער Lzb345; Sab. ער fortified height (cf. 3) PräZMG xxvi (1872), 437, ערן, עהרן city CISiv. pp. 94, 95, 173);—ע׳ abs. Gn 4:17 +, cstr. 24:10 +; הָעִ֫ירָה 1 K 14:12 + 7 times; sf. עִירִי 2 S 19:38 + 2 times, etc.; pl. עָרִים Is 6:11 +, עֲיָרִים Ju 10:4 (textual error, or word-play, cf. GFM); cstr. עָרֵי Gn 19:29…