m

Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary

Wikipedia

Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Etymology 1 1.1.1 Letter 1.1.2 Usage notes 1.1.3 See also 1.2 Etymology 2 1.2.1 Symbol 1.3 Etymology 3 1.3.1 Alternative forms 1.3.2 Numeral 1.3.2.1 Synonyms 1.3.3 See also 2 English 2.1 Pronunciation 2.2 Letter 2.2.1 See also 2.3 Abbreviation 2.3.1 Translations 2.4 See also 3 Dutch 3.1 Pronunciation 3.2 Letter 3.3 See also 4 Haitian Creole 4.1 Etymology 1 4.1.1 Pronunciation 4.1.2 Pronoun 4.2 Etymology 2 4.2.1 Letter 5 Italian 5.1 Noun 6 Japanese 7 !Kung 7.1 Verb 8 Latin 8.1 Abbreviation 9 Mandarin 9.1 Pinyin syllable 9.1.1 Usage notes 10 Romanian 10.1 Pronunciation 10.2 Letter 11 Swahili 11.1 Noun class

[edit] Translingual

[edit] Etymology 1

Modification of capital letter M, from Ancient Greek letter Μ (M), “‘Mu’”).

[edit] Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

1. Lower case form of M. A lower case letter of the classical Latin alphabet and most variations thereof, including the English alphabet.

[edit] Usage notes

The letter m is used in the International Phonetic Alphabet and in several romanization systems of non-Latin scripts to represent the bilabial nasal (IPA: /m/), including Cyrillic м (m), “‘em’”), the beginning of various kana including ま (ma), and Korean jamo ㅁ (m), “‘mieum’”).

[edit] See also

• Previous letter: l
• Next letter: n
• (select forms with diacritics) ɱ ḿ ṁ ṃ
• (other scripts) μ (m, “‘mu’”), м (m, “‘em’”)
• Turned: ɯ

[edit] Etymology 2

Various abbreviations

[edit] Symbol

m

1. meter (metre), the unit of length in the International System of Units
2. milli-

[edit] Etymology 3

From upper case roman numeral M (1000), an alteration of ⋈, from ∞, an alteration of ↀ, an alteration of Ⓧ, from encircling X (the roman numeral for ten) to indicate the hundredth ten.

[edit] Alternative forms

• M, ⅿ, Ⅿ

[edit] Numeral

m (lower case roman numeral, upper case M)

1. cardinal number one thousand (1000)

[edit] Synonyms

• CIƆ

[edit] See also

• Roman numerals

---

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɛm/, SAMPA: /Em/

 Audio (US)^{help, file}

 Audio (UK)^{help, file}

[edit] Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

1. The letter em; the thirteenth letter of the English alphabet, representing the phoneme /m/.

[edit] See also

• Previous letter: l
• Next letter: n

[edit] Abbreviation

m

1. metre
2. (grammar) masculine
3. mile
4. milli
5. million

[edit] Translations

[edit] See also

• M

---

[edit] Dutch

[edit] Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA: /ɛm/

[edit] Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

1. The thirteenth letter of the Dutch alphabet.

[edit] See also

• Previous letter: l
• Next letter: n

---

[edit] Haitian Creole

[edit] Etymology 1

Contraction of mwen from French moi.

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Pronoun

m

1. Contraction of mwen.

[edit] Etymology 2

[edit] Letter

m (lowercase, uppercase M)

1. The thirteenth letter of the Haitian Creole alphabet.

---

[edit] Italian

[edit] Noun

m m. and f. inv.

1. See under M

---

[edit] Japanese

m

1. meter

---

[edit] !Kung

[edit] Verb

m

1. eat

---

[edit] Latin

[edit] Abbreviation

m

1. Marcus

---

[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Pinyin syllable

m

1. A transliteration of Chinese characters properly represented as having the tone ḿ or m̀.

[edit] Usage notes

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

---

[edit] Romanian

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /me/, /em/

[edit] Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

1. The sixteenth letter of the Romanian alphabet representing the phoneme /m/. Preceded by l and followed by n.

---

[edit] Swahili

[edit] Noun class

m- (pl. differs per definition)

1. A noun class denoting a child. (pl. wa-)
2. A noun class denoting a plant. (pl. mi-)