ܡܢ

Classical Syriac

Etymology 1

Compare Arabic مِنْ (min), Hebrew מִן (min).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mɛn]

Preposition

ܡܢ • (men)

1. (of place) from, out of; at, on
2. (of origin) from, of
3. (of material) from, made of
4. (of time) from, while, during, at, after
5. (agentively) by, by means of, on account of, using
6. (partitively) of, out of, some of
7. (distributively) by, through, in
8. (comparatively) than
9. (idiomatic) among, on the side of, of the party; in the name of, on the authority of, according to
10. instead of, without

Inflection

Takes type-I suffixes.

    declension of ܡܢ

1st c. sg. (me)	ܡܢܝ
2nd m. sg. (you)	ܡܢܟ
2nd f. sg. (you)	ܡܢܟܝ
3rd m. sg. (him)	ܡܢܗ
3rd f. sg. (her)	ܡܢܗ
1st c. pl. (us)	ܡܢܢ
2nd m. pl. (you)	ܡܢܟܘܢ
2nd f. pl. (you)	ܡܢܟܝܢ
3rd m. pl. (them)	ܡܢܗܘܢ
3rd f. pl. (them)	ܡܢܗܝܢ

Etymology 2

Compare Arabic مَنْ (man), Hebrew מִי (mî).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [man]

Pronoun

ܡܢ • (man)

1. (interrogatively) who? which?

Etymology 3

Compare Arabic مَا (mā), Hebrew מָה (mâ).

Alternative forms

• ܡܐ (mā)
• ܡܢܐ (mānā)
• ܡܘܢ (mōn)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mɑn]

Pronoun

ܡܢ • (mān)

1. (interrogative) what? which?

Adverb

ܡܢ • (mān)

1. (interrogatively) why? wherefore?
2. (preceding an adjective) how! so!

Conjunction

ܡܢ • (mān)

1. because, since, the fact that

Etymology 4

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek μέν (mén).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [man]

Adverb

ܡܢ • (man)

1. indeed

Coordinate terms

• ܕܝܢ (dên)

References

• “mn”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–, retrieved 2018-01-24
• Costaz, Louis (2002) Dictionnaire syriaque-français ∙ Syriac–English Dictionary ∙ قاموس سرياني-عربي, 3rd edition, Beirut: Dar El-Machreq, pp. 186b-187a
• Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 280a-281b
• Sokoloff, Michael (2009) A Syriac Lexicon: A Translation from the Latin, Correction, Expansion, and Update of C. Brockelmann's Lexicon Syriacum, Winona Lake, Indiana, Piscataway, New Jersey: Eisenbrauns; Gorgias Press, pp. 778b-779a