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ܡܢ

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Assyrian Neo-Aramaic

Etymology 1

From Aramaic מִן (min), from Proto-West Semitic *min; compare Arabic مِنْ (min) and Hebrew מִן (min).

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Preposition

ܡ̣ܢ or ܡܸܢ • (min or min)

  1. (of place) from, out of; at, on
  2. away from, used for reprimanding
    ܐܝܼܕ݂ܘܼܟ݂ ܡܸܢܵܗ̇ ― īḏōḵ minnāh ― Get your hand away from it!
  3. (of origin) from, of
  4. (of material) from, made of
  5. (of time) from, while, during, at, after
  6. (agentively) by, by means of, on account of, using
  7. (partitively) of, out of, some of
  8. (distributively) by, through, in
  9. (temporal) since
  10. (comparatively) than
  11. (idiomatic) among, on the side of, of the party; in the name of, on the authority of, according to
  12. instead of, without
  13. because of
Usage notes
  • This word is often written as “ܡ̣ܢ” in unvocalized texts in order to distinguish itself from “ܡܲܢ (man, “who”)”.
Inflection
More information base form, Personal-pronoun including forms ...

Etymology 2

Compare Arabic مَنْ (man), Hebrew מִי (mi).

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • (Standard) IPA(key): [man.]
  • (Upper Tyari) IPA(key): [ʔedːi]

Pronoun

ܡ̇ܢ or ܡܲܢ • (man or man)

  1. (interrogatively) who? which?
  2. who, the person or persons that
Usage notes
  • This word is often written as “ܡ̇ܢ” in unvocalized texts in order to distinguish itself from “ܡܸܢ (min, “from”)”.
Derived terms
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Classical Syriac

Etymology 1

Compare Arabic مِنْ (min), Hebrew מִן (min).

Pronunciation

Preposition

ܡܢ • (men)

  1. (of place) from, out of; at, on
  2. (of origin) from, of
  3. (of material) from, made of
  4. (of time) from, while, during, at, after
  5. (agentively) by, by means of, on account of, using
  6. (partitively) of, out of, some of
  7. (distributively) by, through, in
  8. (comparatively) than
  9. (idiomatic) among, on the side of, of the party; in the name of, on the authority of, according to
  10. instead of, without
Inflection

Takes type-I suffixes.

More information person, singular ...

Etymology 2

Compare Arabic مَنْ (man), Hebrew מִי (mî).

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Pronoun

ܡܢ • (man)

  1. (interrogatively) who? which?

Etymology 3

Compare Arabic مَا (mā), Hebrew מָה (mā).

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Pronoun

ܡܢ • (mān)

  1. (interrogative) what? which?

Adverb

ܡܢ • (mān)

  1. (interrogatively) why? wherefore?
  2. (preceding an adjective) how! so!

Conjunction

ܡܢ • (mān)

  1. because, since, the fact that

Etymology 4

From Ancient Greek μέν (mén).

Pronunciation

Adverb

ܡܢ • (man)

  1. indeed
Coordinate terms

References

  • “mn”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–, retrieved 24 January 2018
  • “mn”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–, retrieved 24 January 2018
  • “mn”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–, retrieved 24 January 2018
  • “mn”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
  • Brockelmann, Carl (1928), Lexicon Syriacum (in Latin), 2nd edition, Halle: Max Niemeyer, published 1995, page 393b
  • Costaz, Louis (2002), Dictionnaire syriaque-français ∙ Syriac–English Dictionary ∙ قاموس سرياني-عربي, 3rd edition, Beirut: Dar El-Machreq, pages 186b–187a
  • Payne Smith, Jessie (1903), A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, pages 280a–281b
  • Sokoloff, Michael (2009), A Syriac Lexicon: A Translation from the Latin, Correction, Expansion, and Update of C. Brockelmann's Lexicon Syriacum, Winona Lake, Indiana; Piscataway, New Jersey: Eisenbrauns; Gorgias Press, →ISBN, pages 778b–779a
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