Man

See also: Appendix:Variations of "man"

English

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Man

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Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -æn

Etymology 1

From man.

Alternative forms

• man

Proper noun

Man

1. The genus Homo.
2. (poetic) Humankind in general.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, “Eye Witness”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 249:

     The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. […] The second note, the high alarum, not so familiar and always important since it indicates the paramount sin in Man's private calendar, took most of them by surprise although they had been well prepared.

Translations

genus Homo

Afrikaans: mens (af) Arabic: إِنْسَان (ar) m (ʔinsān) Breton: mab-den (br) m Bulgarian: човек (bg) m (čovek) Catalan: home (ca) m, humà (ca) m Central Sierra Miwok: naŋˑa- Chinese: 人 (zh) (rén) Czech: člověk (cs) m Danish: menneske (da) n Deori: (please verify) mosi m Dutch: de mens m Esperanto: homo (eo) Estonian: inimene (et) Finnish: ihminen (fi) French: Homme (fr) m Georgian: ადამიანი (ka) (adamiani) German: Mensch (de) m Greek: άνθρωπος (el) m (ánthropos) Ancient Greek: ἄνθρωπος m (ánthrōpos) Hebrew: אנושות (he) (enoshut) Hindi: मानव (hi) m (mānav) Hungarian: ember (hu) Icelandic: menn (is) Ido: homo (io) Indonesian: orang (id), manusia (id) Interlingua: homine (ia), esser human, humano (ia) Italian: uomo (it) m Japanese: ヒト (ja) (hito), 人間 (ja) (ningen) Korean: 사람 (ko) (saram), 인간 (ko) (in'gan) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: mirov (ku) Latin: homo (la) m Maltese: bniedem Navajo: diné Norwegian: Bokmål: menneske (no) n Occitan: òme (oc) Old English: mann Paraguayan Guarani: (please verify) ava (gn), (please verify) yvypóra (gn) Persian: مَردُم (fa) (mardom) Polish: człowiek (pl) m Portuguese: homem (pt) m, ser humano (pt) m, humano (pt) Romanian: om (ro) m Russian: челове́к (ru) m (čelovék) Scottish Gaelic: mac an duine m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: човек m, човјек m Roman: čovek (sh) m, čovjek (sh) m Slovak: človek (sk) Slovene: človek (sl) m Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: cłowjek m Spanish: hombre (es) m Swedish: människa (sv) Tupinambá: abá Turkish: insan (tr) West Frisian: minske (fy) Yiddish: מענטש (mentsh)

Etymology 2

From Old Irish Mana, from Proto-Celtic *moniyos, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to tower, stand out”).

Alternative forms

• Mann

Proper noun

Man

1. The Isle of Man; an island and crown dependency of the United Kingdom in the Irish Sea.
   • 1860, William Mackenzie, editor, Legislation by Three of the Thirteen Stanleys, Kings of Man. […], Douglas, Isle of Man: […] [T]he Manx Society, page 191:

     And therefore the Bishop and clergy of Man were totally powerless to resist the alteration of doctrinal articles and rites of worship which Earls Edward and Henry, between 1521 and 1594, following the edicts of Henry VIII., Edward VI., and Elizabeth, introduced into the Isle of Man.

Etymology 3

Alternative forms

• Man., MAN

Proper noun

Man

1. Abbreviation of Manitoba: a province of Canada.

Etymology 4

From Cantonese 文 (man⁴).

Proper noun

Man (plural Mans)

1. A surname from Chinese.

Etymology 5

From Cantonese 萬／万 (maan⁶) or 文 (man⁴).

Proper noun

Man (plural Mans)

1. A surname from Chinese.

Etymology 6

Clipping of Manchester.

Alternative forms

• Man.

Proper noun

Man

1. Abbreviation of Manchester: a city in England (especially in football).

Derived terms

• Man City
• Man Utd

Etymology 7

Various other places.

Proper noun

Man

1. A town in Logan County, West Virginia, United States.
2. A city and department in the Ivory Coast.
3. A village in Palghar district, Maharashtra, India.

   Synonym: Maan

Anagrams

• MNA, N. Am., 'Nam, mna, AMN, Nam, NAM, 'nam, NMA

Albanian

Proper noun

Man m

1. a diminutive of the male given name Selman
2. a diminutive of the male given name Osman

Declension

Declension of Man

	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	Man	Mani
accusative		Manin
dative/ablative	Mani	Manit

Derived terms

• Manush

Dutch

Etymology

From Old Irish Mana.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Man n

1. Man, Isle of Man (an island and Crown dependency of the United Kingdom in the Irish Sea)

Holonyms

• Britse Eilanden

Related terms

• Eiland Man
• Manx
• Manxman / Manxe

See also

• Man (eiland) on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

Anagrams

• nam

North Frisian

Alternative forms

• maan (Föhr-Amrum)
• moon (Mooring)

Etymology

From Old Frisian man, from Proto-West Germanic *mann, from Proto-Germanic *mann-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [man]

Noun

Man m (plural Maaner) (Sylt)

1. man (adult male human)
2. husband

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

Man

Wikipedia ^no

Proper noun

Man

1. Man, Isle of Man (an island and Crown dependency of the United Kingdom in the Irish Sea)

Related terms

• mansk
• manx (language)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

Isle of Man

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

Proper noun

Man

1. Man, Isle of Man (an island and Crown dependency of the United Kingdom in the Irish Sea)

Related terms

• mansk
• manx (language)

Swedish

Proper noun

Man

1. abbreviation of Manasses bön: Pr. of Man.

Tagalog

Etymology

From Cantonese 萬／万 (Maan⁶), via English Man.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈman/ [ˈman̪]
• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: Man

Proper noun

Man (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜈ᜔)

1. a surname from Cantonese