- m., m (abbreviation, grammar)
Adjective
masculine (comparative more masculine, superlative most masculine)
- Of or pertaining to the male gender; manly.
- Of or pertaining to the male sex; biologically male, not female.
- Synonym: male
- Antonyms: female, womanly
- Belonging to males; typically used by males.
“John”, “Paul”, and “Jake” are masculine names.
- Having the qualities stereotypically associated with men: virile, aggressive, not effeminate.
1818, Henry Hallam, View of the state of Europe during the Middle ages:That lady, after her husband's death, held the reins with a masculine energy.
1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
- Synonyms: manly, virile
- Antonyms: effeminate, emasculated, epicene, unmanly
- (grammar) Of, pertaining or belonging to the male grammatical gender, in languages that have gender distinctions.
- Synonym: male
- Coordinate terms: feminine, neuter, common
- (of a noun) Being of the masculine class or grammatical gender, and inflected in that manner.
The noun Student is masculine in German.
- (of another part of speech) Being inflected in agreement with a masculine noun.
German uses the masculine form of the definite article, der, with Student.
- (grammar, Mongolic languages, of any word) Having the vowel harmony of a back vowel.
- Coordinate term: feminine
- (prosody) Following or ending on a stressed syllable.
Translations
of the male sex; biologically male, not female; manly
- Arabic: ذَكَرِيّ (ḏakariyy)
- Armenian: արական (hy) (arakan)
- Belarusian: мужчы́нскі (mužčýnski)
- Bengali: পৌরুষেয় (bn) (pōuruśeẏo)
- Bulgarian: мъ́жки (bg) (mǎ́žki)
- Catalan: masculí (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 男的 (zh) (nán de), 男性的 (zh) (nánxìng de)
- Czech: mužský (cs)
- Danish: mandlig (da)
- Dutch: mannelijk (nl)
- Esperanto: malina (eo)
- Estonian: meessoost
- Faroese: mansligur, mannligur, mannfólkaligur
- Finnish: miespuolinen (fi), miehinen (fi)
- French: masculin (fr)
- Galician: masculino (gl) m
- Georgian: მამრობითი (mamrobiti)
- German: männlich (de)
- Greek: αρσενικός (el) m (arsenikós)
- Ancient: ἄρσην (ársēn)
- Hindi: पुरुषवाचक (puruṣvācak), मर्द (hi) (mard)
- Hungarian: hímnemű (hu), hím (hu)
- Indonesian: maskulin (id)
- Irish: fearúil
- Italian: mascolino (it) m
- Japanese: 男らしい (ja) (otokorashii), 男の (ja) (otoko no)
- Korean: 남자다운 (namjadaun)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: nêr (ku) m
- Latin: mās (la), masculīnus, masculus
- Latvian: vīrišķīgs, vīrišķs, vīriešu (lv)
- Lithuanian: vyriškas (lt)
- Maori: tāne (mi)
- Marathi: पुरुषवाचक (puruṣvācak)
- Middle English: masculyn, manly
- Norman: mastchulîn (Jersey)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: maskulin, mandig (no)
- Nynorsk: maskulin, mandig
- Old English: werlīċ
- Ottoman Turkish: مردانه (merdane)
- Pashto: نر (ps) (nër), نارينه (ps) (nâriná)
- Persian: نر (fa) (nar)
- Polish: męski (pl)
- Portuguese: macho (pt)
- Romanian: masculin (ro) m
- Russian: мужско́й (ru) (mužskój)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: му̏шкӣ
- Roman: mȕškī (sh)
- Slovak: mužský (sk)
- Slovene: moški (sl)
- Southern Altai: эр (er)
- Spanish: masculino (es)
- Swedish: manlig (sv)
- Tocharian B: eṅkwaññe
- Turkish: eril (tr)
- Ukrainian: чолові́чий (čolovíčyj)
- Volapük: manik (vo)
- West Frisian: manlik (fy)
- Zazaki: neri (diq)
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belonging to males; appropriated to, or used by, males
having male qualities, not feminine or effeminate
- Albanian: mashkullor (sq)
- Armenian: առնական (hy) (aṙnakan)
- Belarusian: мужчы́нскі m (mužčýnski)
- Bulgarian: мъжествен (bg) (mǎžestven)
- Catalan: masculí (ca), viril
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 男性的 (zh) (nánxìng de), 男子氣的 / 男子气的 (zh) (nánzǐqì de), 男子漢的 / 男子汉的 (zh) (nánzǐhàn de), man (zh) (mān) (informal)
- Czech: mužský (cs), mužný
- Danish: maskulin, mandig
- Dutch: mannelijk (nl)
- Estonian: mehelik, maskuliinne
- Finnish: miehekäs (fi), maskuliininen (fi)
- French: masculin (fr)
- Galician: masculino (gl)
- Georgian: კაცური (ḳacuri), მამაკაცური (mamaḳacuri), ვაჟკაცური (važḳacuri)
- German: männlich (de), maskulin (de)
- Greek: ανδρικός (el) m (andrikós), αρσενικός (el) m (arsenikós), ανδροπρεπής (el) (androprepís)
- Hindi: मर्दाना (hi) (mardānā)
- Hungarian: férfias (hu)
- Indonesian: maskulin (id)
- Irish: fearúil
- Italian: masculino m
- Japanese: 男性的な (ja) (だんせいてきな, danseiteki na)
- Korean: 남자 같은 (namja gateun)
- Latin: masculīnus, masculus
- Latvian: vīrišķīgs, vīrišķs, vīriešu (lv)
- Lithuanian: vyriškas (lt)
- Maori: whakatāne, tāne (mi)
- Marathi: पुरुषी (puruṣī)
- Middle English: manly
- Norman: mastchulîn (Jersey)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: maskulin, mandig (no)
- Nynorsk: maskulin, mandig
- Old English: werlīċ
- Ottoman Turkish: مردانه (merdane)
- Pashto: نر (ps) (nër), نارينه (ps) (nâriná)
- Persian: مردانه (fa) (mardâne)
- Polish: męski (pl)
- Portuguese: macho (pt), homem (pt)
- Romanian: masculin (ro), bărbătesc (ro), viril (ro)
- Russian: мужско́й (ru) (mužskój), мужеподо́бный (ru) (mužepodóbnyj), маскули́нный (ru) (maskulínnyj), му́жественный (ru) (múžestvennyj)
- Slovak: mužný
- Southern Altai: эр (er)
- Spanish: masculino (es), varonil (es), viril (es), macho (es), hombruno
- Swedish: maskulin (sv), manlig (sv)
- Turkish: erkeksi (tr)
- Urdu: مردانہ (mardāna)
- Volapük: manik (vo)
- West Frisian: manlik (fy)
- Zazaki: nerıyın
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grammar: being of the masculine class, being inflected in the masculine manner
Translations to be checked
Noun
masculine (plural masculines)
- (grammar) The masculine gender.
2009, Carlos Quiles, Fernando López-Menchero, A Grammar of Modern Indo-European, Second Edition:The masculine functions as the negative term in the opposition, i.e. when the gender is not defined, the masculine is used.
- (grammar) A word of the masculine gender.
1905, George Theodore Dippold, A German grammar for high schools and colleges:As to the class to which the masculines of the strong declension belong, we repeat that […]
- That which is masculine.
2004, Leonora Leet, The Universal Kabbalah:These forces would also seem to reflect the gender distinction that can be made with respect to the divine, the feminine associated with the divine as immanent within the finite and the masculine with the divine transcendence and the infinite.
- (rare, possibly obsolete) A man.
1868, The Ladies' Repository, A Universalist Monthly Magazine For The Home Circle. Volume XXXIX [39], page 458 (left column):I think women, at least those who do their own work, would live very simply in that respect, if there were none of the masculines to feed.
Translations
(grammar) the masculine gender
(grammar) a word of the masculine gender