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, “Eye Witness”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, OCLC 483591931, 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 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) 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, 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.

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

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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

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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)

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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)

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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)

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Tagalog

Etymology

From Cantonese 萬／万 (Maan⁶).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /man/, [mɐn]

Proper noun

Man

1. A surname, from Cantonese of Chinese origin.