Man

See also: 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, “Eye Witness”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 249:

     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.

Translations

genus Homo

• Afrikaans: mens (af)
• Ancient Greek: ἄνθρωπος m (ánthrōpos)
• Arabic: إِنْسَان (ar) m (ʔinsān)
• 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
• Deori: mosi m,মচি m
• Dutch: de mens m
• Esperanto: homo (eo)
• Estonian: inimene (et)
• Finnish: ihminen (fi)
• French: Homme (fr) m
• Georgian: ადამიანი (ka) (adamiani)
• German: Mensch (de) m
• Greek: άνθρωπος (el) m (ánthropos)
• Guaraní: ava (gn), yvypóra (gn)
• Hebrew: אנושות (he) (enoshut)
• Hungarian: ember (hu)
• Icelandic: menn (is)
• Ido: homo (io)
• Indonesian: orang (id), manusia (id)
• Interlingua: homine (ia), 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:

  Northern Kurdish: mirov (ku)

• Latin: homo (la) m
• Maltese: bniedem
• Navajo: diné
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: menneske (no) n

• 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”).

Alternative forms

• Mann

Proper noun

Man

1. The Isle of Man; an island and crown dependency of the United Kingdom in the Irish Sea.
   • 1860, William Mackenzie, editor, Legislation by Three of the Thirteen Stanleys, Kings of Man. […], Douglas, Isle of Man: […] [T]he Manx Society, page 191:

     And therefore the Bishop and clergy of Man were totally powerless to resist the alteration of doctrinal articles and rites of worship which Earls Edward and Henry, between 1521 and 1594, following the edicts of Henry VIII., Edward VI., and Elizabeth, introduced into the Isle of Man.

Etymology 3

Alternative forms

• Man., MAN

Proper noun

Man

1. Abbreviation of Manitoba.

Etymology 4

From Cantonese 文 (man⁴).

Proper noun

Man (plural Mans)

1. A surname from Chinese.

Etymology 5

From Cantonese 萬／万 (maan⁶).

Proper noun

Man (plural Mans)

1. A surname from Chinese.

Etymology 6

Clipping of Manchester.

Alternative forms

• Man.

Proper noun

Man

1. Abbreviation of Manchester (especially in football)

Derived terms

• Man City
• Man Utd

Anagrams

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

Dutch

Man
Isle of Man

Etymology

From Old Irish Mana.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Man n

1. Man, Isle of Man (an island and Crown dependency of the United Kingdom in the Irish Sea)

Holonyms

• Britse Eilanden

Related terms

• Eiland Man
• Manx
• Manxman / Manxe

See also

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

Anagrams

• nam

North Frisian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mɑn/

Noun

Man m (plural Maaner)

1. (Sylt) man (adult male human)

Norwegian Bokmål

Coat of arms of the Isle of Man

Proper noun

Man

1. Man, Isle of Man (an island and Crown dependency of the United Kingdom in the Irish Sea)

Related terms

• mansk
• manx (language)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Man

1. Man, Isle of Man (an island and Crown dependency of the United Kingdom in the Irish Sea)

Related terms

• mansk
• manx (language)

Tagalog

Etymology

From Cantonese 萬／万 (Maan⁶), via English Man.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈman/, [ˈman]

Proper noun

Man (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜈ᜔)

1. a surname from Cantonese of Chinese origin