Man

See also: man and Appendix:Variations of "man"

English

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -æn

Etymology 1

From man

Alternative forms

• man

Proper noun

Man

1. The genus Homo.
2. (poetic) Humankind in general.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 20, in The China Governess‎^[1]:

     The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. […] The second note, the high alarum, not so familiar and always important since it indicates the paramount sin in Man's private calendar, took most of them by surprise although they had been well prepared.

(Can we add an example for this sense?)

Synonyms

• (Homo):

Translations

genus Homo

• Afrikaans: mens (af)
• Ancient Greek: ἄνθρωπος m (ánthrōpos)
• Arabic: إِنْسَان‎ m (ʾinsān)
• Breton: mab-den (br) m
• Bulgarian: човек (bg) m (čovek)
• Catalan: home (ca) m, humà (ca) m
• Central Sierra Miwok: naŋˑa-
• Chinese: 人 (zh) (rén)
• Czech: člověk (cs) m
• Danish: menneske (da) n
• Dutch: de mens m
• Esperanto: homo (eo)
• Estonian: inimene (et)
• Finnish: ihminen (fi)
• French: Homme (fr) m
• Georgian: ადამიანი (ka) (adamiani)
• German: Mensch (de)
• Greek: άνθρωπος (el) m (ánthropos)
• Guaraní: ava (gn), yvypóra
• Hebrew: אנושות‎ (he) (enoshut)
• Hungarian: ember (hu)
• Icelandic: menn (is)
• Ido: homo (io)
• Indonesian: orang (id), manusia (id)
• Interlingua: homine, esser human, humano (ia)
• Italian: uomo (it) m
• Japanese: ヒト (ja) (hito), 人間 (ja) (ningen)
• Korean: 사람 (ko) (saram), 인간 (ko) (in-gan)

• Kurdish: mirov (ku)
• Latin: homo (la) m
• Maltese: bniedem
• Navajo: diné
• Norwegian: menneske (no)
• Novial: home
• Occitan: òme (oc)
• Old English: mann
• Persian: مَردُم‎ (fa) (mardom)
• Polish: człowiek (pl) m
• Portuguese: homem (pt) m, ser humano (pt) m, humano (pt)
• Romanian: om (ro) m
• Russian: челове́к (ru) m (čelovék)
• Scottish Gaelic: mac an duine m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: човек m, човјек m

  Roman: čovek (sh) m, čovjek (sh) m

• Slovak: človek (sk)
• Slovene: človek (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: cłowjek m

• Spanish: hombre (es) m
• Swedish: människa (sv)
• Tupinambá: abá
• Turkish: insan (tr)
• West Frisian: minske (fy)
• Yiddish: מענטש‎ (mentsh)

Etymology 2

From Old Irish Mana, from Proto-Celtic *moniyos, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to tower, stand out”).

Proper noun

Man

1. The Isle of Man.

Etymology 3

Alternative forms

• Man.

Proper noun

Man

1. Abbreviation of Manitoba.

Etymology 4

From Cantonese 文 (man⁴).

Proper noun

Man

1. A surname​ of Chinese origin.

Etymology 5

From Cantonese 萬／万 (maan⁶).

Proper noun

Man

1. A surname​ of Chinese origin.

Anagrams

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

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Dutch

Man
Isle of Man

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Man ?

1. Isle of Man

Holonyms

• Britse Eilanden

See also

• Man (eiland) on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

Anagrams

• nam

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North Frisian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mɑn/

Noun

Man m (plural Maaner)

1. (Sylt) man (adult male human)

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Norwegian Bokmål

Coat of arms of the Isle of Man

Proper noun

Man

1. Isle of Man

Related terms

• mansk
• manx (language)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Man

1. Isle of Man

Related terms

• mansk
• manx (language)

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Tagalog

Etymology

From Cantonese 萬／万 (Maan⁶).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /man/

Proper noun

Man

1. A surname​ of Chinese origin.