मैं

From Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀫𑀏 (maë), from Sanskrit मया (mayā), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *máyaH the instrumental singular of *aĵʰám (“I”), from Proto-Indo-European *éǵH-om.

मैं (ma͠i)

1. I

From Old Hindi मैं (maiṃ), from Sauraseni Apabhramsa मइं (maĩ), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀫𑀏 (maë), from Sanskrit मया (mayā), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *máyaH the instrumental singular of *aĵʰám (“I”), from Proto-Indo-European *éǵH-om.

Cognate to Punjabi ਮੈਂ (maẽ), Nepali म (ma), Assamese মই (moi), Sylheti ꠝꠥꠁ (mui), Kamta মুই (mui), Marathi मी (mī), all deriving from oblique forms of the first-person personal pronoun.

• IPA^(key): /mɛ̃ː/
• (dialectal) IPA^(key): /məɪ/, [məɪ̯]

मैं • (ma͠i) m or f (Urdu spelling میں‎)

1. I (the first person personal singular pronoun) (Plural: हम (ham) or हम लोग (ham log))

   मैं एक आदमी हूँ।

   Ma͠i ek ādmī hū̃.

   I am a man.

• मो (mo) – Varanasi

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “मैं”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
• Platts, John T. (1884), “मैं”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & co.

• Caturvedi, Mahendra; Bhola Nath Tiwari (1970), “मैं”, in A practical Hindi-English dictionary, Delhi: National Publishing House
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “ma”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press
• Richard Pischel (1900) Grammatik der Prakrit-Sprachen [Comparative Grammar Of The Prakrit Languages]‎, Varanasi: Motilal Banarasidass, published 1957

From Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀫𑀏 (maë), from Sanskrit मया (mayā), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *máyaH the instrumental singular of *aĵʰám (“I”), from Proto-Indo-European *éǵH-om.

मैं (ma͠i)

1. I

• मै (mai)

From Sauraseni Apabrahmsa [script needed] (maĩ), [script needed] (maï), from Sauraseni Prakrit [script needed] (mae), [script needed] (maï), from Sanskrit मया (mayā), instrumental singular of अहम् (aham).

मैं (maiṃ)

1. I
   • c. 1500, Kabir, Assorted Poetry, pad 76, line 3:

     जग मैं देषूँ जग न देषि मोहि

     jaga maiṃ deṣūm̐ jaga na deṣi mohi

     I see the world, [but] the world does not see me.