man

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /mæn/
• (æ-tensing) IPA^(key): [mɛən], [meən], [mẽə̃n]
• (Jamaica) IPA^(key): [mɑn]
• (General New Zealand, parts of South Africa) IPA^(key): [mɛn]

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• Rhymes: -æn

From Middle English man, from Old English mann m (“human being, person, man”), from Proto-Germanic *mann- m (“human being, man”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *mon- (“man”) (compare also *men- (“mind”)). Cognate with West Frisian man c, Dutch man m, German Mann m (“man”), Norwegian mann (“man”), Old Swedish maþer m (“man”), Swedish man c, Russian муж m anim (muž, “husband, male person”), Avestan 𐬨𐬀𐬥𐬱‎ (manuš), Sanskrit मनु m (manu, “human being”), Urdu مانس‎ m and Hindi मानस m (mānas).

man (plural men)

A man.

1. An adult male human.

   The show is especially popular with middle-aged men.

   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Henry V, act 4, scene 1:

     The king is but a man, as I am; the violet smells to him as it doth to me.

   • 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314, page 0029:

     “ […] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:man.
2. (collective) All human males collectively: mankind.
   • 2011, Eileen Gray and the Design of Sapphic Modernity: Staying In, p.109:

     Unsurprisingly, if modern man is a sort of camera, modern woman is a picture.

3. A human, a person of either gender, usually an adult. (See usage notes.)

   every man for himself

   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, act 4, scene 2:

     […] a man cannot make him laugh.

   • 1611, Bible (KJV), Romans 12.17:

     Recompence to no man euill for euill.

   • 1624, John Donne, “17. Meditation”, in Deuotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Seuerall Steps in My Sicknes: […], London: Printed by A[ugustine] M[atthews] for Thomas Iones, OCLC 55189476, lines 2–3; republished as Geoffrey Keynes, John Sparrow, editor, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions: […], Cambridge: At the University Press, 1923, OCLC 459265555, page 98:

     No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; […]

   • c. 1700, Joseph Addison, Monaco, Genoa, &c., page 9:

     A man would expect, in so very ancient a town of Italy, to find some considerable antiquities; but all they have to show of this nature is an old Rostrum of a Roman ship, that stands over the door of their arsenal.

   • 1991 edition (original: 1953), Darell Huff, How to Lie with Statistics, pp.19–20:

     Similarly, the next time you learn from your reading that the average man (you hear a good deal about him these days, most of it faintly improbable) brushes his teeth 1.02 times a day—a figure I have just made up, but it may be as good as anyone else's – ask yourself a question. How can anyone have found out such a thing? Is a woman who has read in countless advertisements that non-brushers are social offenders going to confess to a stranger that she does not brush her teeth regularly?

4. (collective) All humans collectively: mankind, humankind, humanity. (Sometimes capitalized as Man.)
   • 1647, Westminster Shorter Catechism, question 10:

     How did God create man?

     God created man male and female, after his own image, in knowledge, righteousness, and holiness, with dominion over the creatures.

   • 2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:

     Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.

5. (anthropology, archaeology, paleontology) A member of the genus Homo, especially of the species Homo sapiens.
   • 1990, The Almanac of Science and Technology →ISBN, p.68:

     The evidence suggests that close relatives of early man, in lineages that later became extinct, also were able to use tools.

6. (obsolete) A sentient being, whether human or supernatural.
   • c. 1500, A Gest of Robyn Hode, in the Child Ballads:

     For God is holde a ryghtwys man.

   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, act 3, scene 5:

     God's a good man.

   • 1609, Ben Jonson, Epicœne, or The silent woman:

     Expect: But was the devil a proper man, gossip?

     As fine a gentleman of his inches as ever I saw trusted to the stage, or any where else.

7. An adult male who has, to an eminent degree, qualities considered masculine, such as strength, integrity, and devotion to family; a mensch.
   • 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island:

     He’s more a man than any pair of rats of you in this here house […]

   • 2011, Timothy Shephard, Can We Help Us?: Growing Up Bi-Racial in America →ISBN, p.181:

     I had the opportunity to marry one of them but wasn't mature enough to be a man and marry her and be close to the […] children and raise them […].

8. (uncountable, obsolete, uncommon) Manliness; the quality or state of being manly.
   • 1598, Ben Jonson, Every Man in His Humour

     Methought he bare himself in such a fashion, / So full of man, and sweetness in his carriage, / […]

9. A husband.
   • Book of Common Prayer:

     I pronounce that they are man and wife.

   • 1715, Joseph Addison, The Freeholder:

     In the next place, every wife ought to answer for her man.

10. A lover; a boyfriend.
11. A male enthusiast or devotee; a male who is very fond of or devoted to a specified kind of thing. (Used as the last element of a compound.)

    Some people prefer apple pie, but me, I’m a cherry pie man.

12. A person, usually male, who has duties or skills associated with a specified thing. (Used as the last element of a compound.)

    I wanted to be a guitar man on a road tour, but instead I’m a flag man on a road crew.

13. A person, usually male, who can fulfill one's requirements with regard to a specified matter.
    • 2007, Thriller: Stories to Keep You Up All Night →ISBN, p.553:

      "She's the man for the job."

    • 2008, Soccer Dad: A Father, a Son, and a Magic Season →ISBN, p.148:

      Joanie volunteered, of course — if any dirty job is on offer requiring running, she's your man —

    • 2012, The Island Caper: A Jake Lafferty Action Novel →ISBN, p.34:

      He also owns the only backhoe tractor on Elbow Cay, so whenever anyone needs a cistern dug, he's their man.

14. A male who belongs to a particular group: an employee, a student or alumnus, a representative, etc.
    • 1909, Harper's Weekly, Vol.53, p.iii:

      When President Roosevelt goes walking in the country about Washington he is always accompanied by two Secret Service men.

    • 1913, Robert Herrick, One Woman's Life, p.46:

      "And they're very good people, I assure you — he's a Harvard man." It was the first time Milly had met on intimate terms a graduate of a large university.

15. An adult male servant.
16. (historical) A vassal. A subject.

    Like master, like man.

    (old proverb)

    all the king's men

    • c. 1700s, William Blackstone:

      The vassal, or tenant, kneeling, ungirt, uncovered, and holding up his hands between those of his lord, professed that he did become his man from that day forth, of life, limb, and earthly honour.

    • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 4, in The Celebrity:

      No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait.

17. A piece or token used in board games such as chess.
    • 1883, Henry Richter, Chess Simplified!, p.4:

      The white men are always put on that side of the board which commences by row I, and the black men are placed opposite.

18. (MLE, slang) Used to refer to oneself or one's group: I, we; construed in the third person.
    • 2011, Top Boy:

      Sully: If it weren’t for that snake ... Man wouldn’t even be in this mess right now.

19. A term of familiar address often implying on the part of the speaker some degree of authority, impatience, or haste.

    Come on, man, we've got no time to lose!

20. A friendly term of address usually reserved for other adult males.

    Hey, man, how's it goin'?

21. (sports) A player on whom another is playing, with the intent of limiting their attacking impact.
    • 2018 Dinny Navaratnam, Andrews will learn from experience: Fagan Brisbane Lions, 30 July 2018. Accessed 6 August 2018.

      "It was a brutal return to football for Brisbane Lions defender Harris Andrews as his man Tom Hawkins booted seven goals but Lions Coach Chris Fagan said the team's defensive faults, rather than the backman's, allowed the big Cat to dominate."

• The use of “man” (compare Old English: mann, wer, wīf) to mean both “human (of any gender)” and “adult male”, which developed after Old English’s distinct term for the latter (wer) fell out of use, has been criticized since at least the second half of the twentieth century.[1] Critics claim that the use of “man”, both alone and in compounds, to denote a human or any gender “is now often regarded as sexist or at best old-fashioned”,[1] “flatly discriminatory in that it slights or ignores the membership of women in the human race”.[2] The American Heritage Dictionary wrote that in 2004 75-79% of their usage panel still accepted sentences with generic man, and 86-87% accepted sentences with man-made.[3] Some style guides recommend against generic “man”,[4] and “although some editors and writers reject or disregard [...] objections to man as a generic, many now choose instead to use” human, human being or person instead.[2]
  • This generic usage is still well-preserved in certain dialects, pidgins, and creoles of English, as well as fixed expressions and certain religious documents and declarations such as the Nicene Creed (e.g. "...for us men and our salvation..."). Consideration of this has often led to accusations of the critics of the generic man as enforcing linguistic prescriptivism.
• See also the man

• (adult male human): male; omi (Polari); see more at Thesaurus:man
• (person): human, person, see more at Thesaurus:person
• (board game piece): see Thesaurus:board game piece

• (gender): woman
• (age): boy

See man/translations § Noun.

• Old English: mann, wer, wīf.

man (not comparable)

1. Only used in man enough

man

1. Used to place emphasis upon something or someone; sometimes, but not always, when actually addressing a man.

   Man, that was a great catch!

   • For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:man.

From Middle English mannen, from Old English mannian, ġemannian (“to man, supply with men, populate, garrison”), from mann (“human being, man”). Cognate with Dutch bemannen (“to man”), German bemannen (“to man”), Swedish bemanna (“to man”), Icelandic manna (“to supply with men, man”).

man (third-person singular simple present mans, present participle manning, simple past and past participle manned)

1. (transitive) To supply (something) with staff or crew (of either sex).

   The ship was manned with a small crew.

2. (transitive) To take up position in order to operate (something).

   Man the machine guns!

3. (reflexive, possibly dated) To brace (oneself), to fortify or steel (oneself) in a manly way. (Compare man up.)
   • 1876, Julian Hawthorne, Saxon Studies:

     he manned himself heroically

4. (transitive, obsolete) To wait on, attend to or escort.
5. (transitive, obsolete, chiefly falconry) To accustom (a raptor or other type of bird) to the presence of people.

• beman
• overman (verb)

• "man" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 188.

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

man

1. moon

From Dutch man.

man (plural mans or manne)

1. man
2. husband

• Tosk: mën
• Gheg: mand, mandë

Syncopated form of Gheg mand, from Proto-Albanian *manta. Compare Ancient Greek βάτος (bátos, “bramble”), said by Beekes to be a Mediterranean wanderwort, and μαντία (mantía, “blackberry”) (Dacian loan).

• IPA^(key): /man/

man m (indefinite plural mana, definite singular mani, definite plural manat)

1. mulberry, mulberry tree

• man i bardhë ‘white mulberry’ (Morus alba)
• man i kuq ‘red mulberry’ (Morus rubra)
• man i zi ‘black mulberry’ (Morus nigra)
• man toke ‘wild strawberry’ (Fragoria vesca)

man

1. I, first person singular pronoun, as subject

• B. Oshodi, The HTS (High Tone Syllable) in Arigidi: An Introduction, in the Nordic Journal of African Studies 20(4): 263–275 (2011)

man

1. water

• R. C. Stevenson, Bagirmi Grammar (1969)

man

1. bird

• Steve Gallagher, Peirce Baehr, Bariai Grammar Sketch (2005)

man

1. bird

• George W. Grace, Notes on the phonological history of the Austronesian languages of the Sarmi Coast, in Oceanic Linguistics (1971, 10:11-37)

Borrowed from English man.

• (Mandarin) IPA^(key): /mɛːn⁵⁵/
• (Cantonese) IPA^(key): /mɛːn⁵⁵/

man

1. (slang) manly; masculine

   • 而從審美的角度來看，李隆基絕對與美男子三個字無緣，但他卻有種很man的味道，吸引著女人的目光 [MSC, trad.]
     而从审美的角度来看，李隆基绝对与美男子三个字无缘，但他却有种很man的味道，吸引着女人的目光 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 2006, 狐千月, 《大俠，跟我回現代》

     Ér cóng shěnměi de jiǎodù lái kàn, Lǐ Lóngjī juéduì yǔ měinánzǐ sān ge zì wúyuán, dàn tā què yǒu zhǒng hěn man de wèidào, xīyǐn zhe nǚrén de mùguāng [Pinyin]

     From the perspective of esthetics, Li Longji definitely has nothing to do with the word handsome, but he still has that hint of manliness, attracting women to look

   • 如果妳的他是很man的男人，那就恭喜妳啦！ [MSC, trad.]
     如果你的他是很man的男人，那就恭喜你啦！ [MSC, simp.]

     From: 2007, 李意昕, 《愛情36計》, page 155

     Rúguǒ nǐ de tā shì hěn man de nánrén, nà jiù gōngxǐ nǐ la! [Pinyin]

     If your "he" is a manly man, then congratulations!

   • 若夠MAN就直率地說出你就是討厭娘味的男人 [MSC, trad.]
     若够MAN就直率地说出你就是讨厌娘味的男人 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 2010, 許常德, 《中年男人地下手記》, page 15

     ruò gòu MAN jiù zhíshuài de shuōchū nǐ jiùshì tǎoyàn niángwèi de nánrén [Pinyin]

     If you're manly enough, then candidly pronounce that you don't like sissy men.

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:man.

Borrowed from English man.

man

1. man

• siwash

• klootchman

man

1. male

• klootchman

man

1. Alternative spelling of maan

• mann, månn

From Middle High German man, from Old High German man, from Proto-Germanic *mann-. Cognate with German Mann, Dutch man, English man, Icelandic maður, Swedish man, Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌽𐌽𐌰 (manna).

man m (Thirteen Communities)

1. man
2. husband

• “man” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

From Old Norse mǫn, from Proto-Indo-European *mon- (“neck”).

• IPA^(key): /maːn/, [mæːˀn]

man c (singular definite manen, plural indefinite maner)

1. mane (longer hair growth on back of neck of a horse)

• manke c

Same as mand (“man”), from Old Norse maðr (“man”). Transition to pronoun by German influence.

• IPA^(key): /man/, [man]

man

1. you
2. they, people
3. we, one

See mane.

• IPA^(key): /maːn/, [mæːˀn]

man

1. imperative of mane

From Middle Dutch man, from Old Dutch man, from Proto-Germanic *mann-.

• IPA^(key): /mɑn/
• Rhymes: -ɑn

man m (plural mannen or man, diminutive mannetje n or manneke n or manneken n)

1. man, human male, either adult or age-irrespective

   De oude man en de zee.

   The Old Man and the Sea.

2. husband, male spouse

• The normal plural is mannen. The unchanged form man is used after numerals only; it refers to the size of a group rather than a number of individuals. For example: In totaal verloren er 5000 man hun leven in die slag. (“5000 men altogether lost their lives in that battle.”)
• Compound words with -man as their last component often take -lieden or -lui in the plural, rather than -mannen. For example: brandweerman (“firefighter”) → brandweerlieden (alongside brandweerlui and brandweermannen).
• Various alternative diminutives exist, including manneke (used especially in Flanders) and the dialectal mannechie.

• men

• nam

man

1. First and third-person singular present of munna

   I, he, she, it will / may

• tað man vera (so) - this may be (so)
• tað man óivað vera beinari - this will doubtless be more correct

man

1. (colloquial) one, they (indefinite third-person singular pronoun)

• (standard): mann

From Latin manus.

man m (plural mans)

1. hand

man

1. foot

• Gaikundi-Ontena Organised Phonology Data (2011)

mao

From Old Portuguese mão, from Latin manus. Compare Catalan mà, French main, Italian mano, Occitan man, Portuguese mão, Romanian mână, Sardinian manu, Spanish mano.

man f (plural mans)

1. hand

• Man is a false friend, and does not mean man. Galician equivalents are shown in the "Translations" section of the English entry man.

• IPA^(key): /man/
• (Austria)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -an
• Homophone: Mann

From Middle High German man, from Old High German man, from Proto-Germanic *mann- (“man”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mon-. Originally the same word as Mann (“man”), which see for more. The same construct in Dutch men, French on.

man

1. one, you (indefinite pronoun; construed as a third-person singular)

   Man kann nicht immer kriegen, was man will.

   You can’t always get what you want.

   Manchmal muss man Kompromisse machen.

   Sometimes one must compromise.

   • 2008, Frank Behmeta, Wenn ich die Augen öffne, page 55:

     Kann man es fühlen, wenn man schwanger ist?

     Can one feel that one is pregnant?

2. they, people (people in general)

   Zumindest sagt man das so...

   At least that’s what they say...

3. someone, somebody (some unspecified person)
4. they (some unspecified group of people)

• Man is used in the nominative case only; for the oblique cases forms of the pronoun einer are used. For example: Man kann nicht immer tun, was einen glücklich macht. — One cannot always do what makes one happy.
• Since man derives from the same source as Mann (“man; male”), its use is considered problematic by some feminists. They have proposed alternating man and the feminine neologism frau, or using the generic neologism mensch. This usage has gained some currency in feminist and left-wing publications, but remains rare otherwise.
• In the sense of “someone,” man is often translated using the passive voice (“I was told that...” rather than “someone told me that...”).

From Middle Low German man. A contraction of Old Saxon newan (“none other than”). Compare a similar contraction in Dutch maar (“only”).

man

1. (colloquial, regional, Northern Germany) just; only

   Komm man hier rüber!

   Just come over here!

   Das sind man dreißig Stück oder so.

   These are only thirty or so.

From Middle Low German man. A contraction of Old Saxon newan (“none other than”). Compare a similar contraction in Dutch maar (“only”).

man

1. (in many dialects, including Low Prussian) only; but

• (in various dialects) avers, awer (and many variations thereof; for which, see those entries)
• (in some dialects) bloots

man

1. Romanization of 𐌼𐌰𐌽

• IPA^(key): /man/, [maːn]
• Rhymes: -aːn

From Old Norse man, perhaps from Proto-Germanic *gamaną (with unstressed prefix *ga-).

man n (genitive singular mans, nominative plural mön)

1. (obsolete, uncountable, collective) slaves
2. (archaic, countable) a female slave
3. (archaic or poetic, countable) maiden

• (female slave): ambátt

• mansal
• mansmaður

From mana (“to dare [someone] [to do something]”).

man n (genitive singular mans, no plural)

1. the act of daring someone to do something; provocation, dare

Appears in Guðbrandur Þorláksson’s 1584 Bible translation. Borrowed from German Man (in Luther’s 1534 German Bible), from Hebrew מן‎ (mān, “manna”).

man n (indeclinable)

1. (biblical, obsolete) manna
   • 1584, Guðbrandur Þorláksson (translator), “Exodus. Aunnur Bok Moſe”, in Biblia, Þad Er Øll Heiloͤg Ritning vtloͤgd a Norrænu‎, Hólar: Jón Jónsson, chapter 16, verse 33, page 76:

     Og Moſes ſegde til Aaron / Tak þier eina Føtu / og legg eirn Gomor fullan af Man þar i / og lꜳt þad vardueitaſt fyrer DROTTNI til ydar ep[t]erkomande Kynkuijſla

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

• (manna): manna

man

1. first person singular present indicative of muna; I remember

   Ég man ekki.

   I don't remember.

2. third person singular present indicative of muna; he/she/it remembers

   Hann man hvað gerðist.

   He remembers what happened.

• “man” in: Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon — Íslensk orðsifjabók, 1st edition, 2nd printing (1989). Reykjavík, Orðabók Háskólans.

From Latin manus.

man m

1. hand

man

1. Rōmaji transcription of まん
2. Rōmaji transcription of マン

man

1. to stay
2. to remain

From Latin manus.

man f (plural mans)

1. hand

man

1. to me; dative singular form of es

From Latin manus.

• IPA^(key): [maŋ]

man f (plural moæn)

1. hand

• IPA^(key): [man]

mán

1. (first-person singular) dative form of aš.

   Duok man tą knygą.

   Give me that book.

• IPA^(key): /maːn/

man (third-person singular present meet, past participle gemat or gemeet, auxiliary verb hunn)

1. (regional, southern dialects) Alternative form of maachen

man

1. Nonstandard spelling of mān.
2. Nonstandard spelling of mán.
3. Nonstandard spelling of mǎn.
4. Nonstandard spelling of màn.

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

From Old Dutch man, from Proto-Germanic *mann-.

man m

1. human
2. person
3. man, male
4. husband
5. subordinate

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: man
• Limburgish: man

• “man”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “man (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

From Old English man (“one, a person”).

• mæn, mane, manne, mon, monne, ma, men

man

1. Typically singular, indefinite pronoun: one, you (indefinite).

• me
• noman
• animan

• me
• ei

• “man (pron.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 12 June 2018.
• “men (pron.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 12 June 2018.

From Old English mann.

man

1. Alternative form of mon

• main (Jersey)
• môin (Guernsey)

From Old French main, mein, man, from Latin manus (“hand”), from Proto-Indo-European *mon-.

man f (plural mans)

1. (France, anatomy) hand

man (feminine ma)

1. my (belonging to me)

• tan (“your”)
• san (“hers, his, its”)

From Old Frisian mīn.

man m (feminine min, neuter min, plural min)

1. (Föhr-Amrum) my

man

1. inflection of mii:
   1. accusative singular
   2. genitive singular

• IPA^(key): /mɑn/
• Homophone: mann
• Rhymes: -ɑn

man

1. you
2. one
3. they
4. people

• IPA^(key): /mɑːn/
• Rhymes: -ɑːn

man f or m (definite singular mana or manen, indefinite plural maner, definite plural manene)

1. a mane (of a horse)

man f (definite singular mana, indefinite plural maner, definite plural manene)

1. mane (of a horse)

From Old Occitan man, from Latin manus.

• IPA^(key): [ma]

man f (plural mans)

1. hand

From Proto-Germanic *mann-, probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mon-.

man m

1. human, person
2. man, male

• ambahtman

• Middle Dutch: man
  • Dutch: man
  • Limburgish: man

• “man (I)”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

From mann.

• IPA^(key): /mɑn/

man

1. one, someone, they (often used to form the passive)

• Middle English: man, me

From Proto-Germanic *mainą. Cognate with Old Saxon mēn, Old High German mein, Old Norse mein.

• IPA^(key): /mɑːn/

mān n

1. crime, sin, wickedness

• mānswerian

From Proto-Germanic *mann-, probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mon-. Compare Old Saxon man, Dutch man, Old English mann, Old Frisian man, mon, Old Norse maðr, Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌽𐌽𐌰 (manna).

man m

1. man

• Middle High German: man
  • Alemannic German: ma, mà, Maa, Mann, Mànn, mo, ma'

    Swabian: Ma, Mâ, Mô, Mâo, Mâu

  • Bavarian: mon, mònn, moon, ma'

    Cimbrian: man, mann, månn

    Mòcheno: mònn

  • Central Franconian:

    Hunsrik: Mann

  • East Central German:

    Silesian German: Moan

  • German: Mann, man
  • Luxembourgish: Mann
  • Rhine Franconian:

    Pennsylvania German: Mann

  • Yiddish: מאַן‎ (man)

From Latin manus.

man f (oblique plural mans, nominative singular man, nominative plural mans)

1. hand (anatomy)

• Catalan: mà
• Occitan: man

• von Wartburg, Walther (1928-2002), “manus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 61, page 285

From Proto-Germanic *mann-, probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mon-. Compare Old English mann, Old Frisian man, mon, Old Dutch man, Old High German man, Old Norse maðr.

man m

1. human, person
2. man

• Middle Low German: man
  • German Low German: Mann
    • Plautdietsch: Maun

From Spanish mano.

man

1. hand

man

1. Alternative form of mar

• Unlike mar, man does not lenite the following word.

English

man m (plural men)

1. (Latin America, colloquial) man, guy, dude

From English man.

• IPA^(key): /man/

man

1. man, male human

• -man
• manpikin

From Old Swedish maþer, mander, from Old Norse maðr, from Proto-Germanic *mann-, probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mon-.

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• IPA^(key): /ˈman/

man c

1. a man (adult male human)
2. somebody's husband (not used in other contexts, where could be confused with a man in general, other than as äkta man, see also make, gemål)

   Vi går till caféet med våra män.

   We go to the café with our husbands.

3. a member of a crew, workforce or (military) troop

   I äldre tider sa man att björnen ägde sju mans styrka men en mans vett.

   In older times, they said the bear has the strength of seven men but the sense of one man.

Definitions 1, 2 and 3:

Definition 3:

• The unchanged plural man is sometimes used after numerals. It means "men" as a measure for size or strength of a group rather than individuals: Med tre man kan vi lyfta byrån – "With three people we can lift the cupboard." Military or police personnel, team members, demonstrators and the like are often counted using this unchanged plural. The same goes with German where Mann can have an unchsnged plural form in this particular case.

man c

1. (indefinite) one, they; people in general

   Vad man kan se

   What one can see

From Old Swedish man, from Old Norse mǫn, from Proto-Germanic *manō, from Proto-Indo-European *mono-, from Proto-Indo-European *men-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑːn/

man c

1. mane (of a horse or lion)

man

1. although; even if; even though
2. also

man

1. bird

• George W. Grace, Notes on the phonological history of the Austronesian languages of the Sarmi Coast, in Oceanic Linguistics (1971, 10:11-37)

From English man.

man

1. man (adult male human)
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, 2:5:

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man

1. male

• meri

• bigman
• konman
• manmeri
• paniman

From English man.

man

1. husband
2. a married man
3. any man

From Latin manus. Compare Italian mano.

man f (invariable)

1. hand

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 萬 (“ten thousand”; SV: vạn). Doublet of muôn, vạn.

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [maːn˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [maːŋ˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [maːŋ˧˧]
• Homophone: mang

man

1. (archaic, cardinal) ten thousand; myriad

   một man

   ten thousand

• cơ man (“a large quantity of”)

Borrowed from English man (compare Dutch: man, Swedish: man, Norwegian: mann, German: Mann, German Low German: Mann, Yiddish: מאַן‎ (man, “man”)).

• IPA^(key): [man]

man (plural mans)

1. man (adult male human)

• vom

• IPA^(key): /man/

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man m or f (plural mannau)

1. place

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

• IPA^(key): /mɔn/

man c (plural manlju or mannen, diminutive mantsje)

1. man

   Coordinate term: frou

2. husband

   Coordinate term: frou

• “man (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

From Old Norse meðan, from Proto-Germanic *medanō.

• IPA^(key): [mɑ̀ːn] (example of pronunciation)

  Rhymes: -ɑ̀ːn, -èːðan

mān

1. meanwhile, as long as, while, whilst

   tyst man jag sȯf

   be quiet while I sleep

• mea
• meda

man

1. neck

• man awal
• man ngaat
• man poonchal

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man

1. I (first-person singular subject pronoun)

man

1. man
2. husband

• mawen, mawn

• J. Poole W. Barnes, A Glossary, with Some Pieces of Verse, of the Old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy (1867)