Man

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

§English

§Pronunciation

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§Etymology 1

From man

§Proper noun

Man

1. The genus Homo.
2. (poetic) Humankind in general.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 20, 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.

§Synonyms

• (Homo):

§Translations

genus Homo

• Afrikaans: mens (af)
• Ancient Greek: ἄνθρωπος (ánthrōpos) m
• Arabic: انسان (ar) m (insán)
• Breton: mab-den (br) m
• Bulgarian: човек (bg) m (čovek)
• Catalan: home m, humà (ca) m
• Central Sierra Miwok: naŋˑa-
• Chinese: 人 (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), Mann (de) m
• Greek: άνθρωπος (el) m (ánthropos)
• Guaraní: ava, yvypóra
• Hebrew: אנושות (he) (enoshut)
• Hungarian: ember (hu)
• Icelandic: menn (is)
• Ido: homo (io)
• Indonesian: orang (id), manusia (id)
• Interlingua: homine, esser human, humano
• Italian: uomo (it) m
• Japanese: ヒト (hito), 人間 (ja) (ningen)
• Korean: 사람 (ko) (saram), 인간 (ko) (in-gan)

• Kurdish: mirov (ku)
• Latin: homo (la), -inis m
• Lojban: remna (jbo)
• Maltese: bniedem
• Navajo: diné
• Norwegian: menneske (no)
• Novial: home
• Occitan: òme (oc)
• Old English: mann
• Persian: مَردُم (fa) (mærdom)
• Polish: człowiek m (2)
• Portuguese: homem (pt) m, ser humano (pt) m, humano (pt)
• Romanian: om (ro) m
• Russian: человек (ru) m (čelovék)
• Scottish Gaelic: mac an duine m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: човек m, човјек m

  Roman: čovek m, čovjek 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

§Proper noun

Man

1. The Isle of Man

§Etymology 3

§Alternative forms

• Man.

§Proper noun

Man

1. Abbreviation of Manitoba.

§Anagrams

• AMN, MNA, 'Nam, 'nam, Nam

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§Dutch

Man
Isle of Man

§Proper noun

Man ?

1. Isle of Man

§Holonyms

• Britse Eilanden

§Anagrams

• nam

§See also

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

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§Norwegian

§Proper noun

Man

1. Isle of Man

§See also

• mansk