m

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Letter m.svg
m U+006D, m
LATIN SMALL LETTER M
← l
[U+006C] 		Basic Latin n →
[U+006E]
U+217F.svg
ⅿ U+217F, ⅿ
SMALL ROMAN NUMERAL ONE THOUSAND
← ⅾ
[U+217E] 		Number Forms ↀ →
[U+2180]
ｍ U+FF4D, ｍ
FULLWIDTH LATIN SMALL LETTER M
← ｌ
[U+FF4C] 		Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms ｎ →
[U+FF4E]
𝆐 U+1D190, 𝆐
MUSICAL SYMBOL MEZZO
← 𝆏
[U+1D18F] 		Musical Symbols 𝆑 →
[U+1D191]

Contents

Translingual[edit]

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Etymology 1[edit]

Greek Μ (M, “Mu”), from which Latin upper case and lower case m were derived Modification of capital letter M, from Ancient Greek letter Μ (M, “Mu”).

Letter[edit]

m (upper case M)

  1. The thirteenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

See also[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Various abbreviations.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA
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Symbol[edit]

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m

  1. meter (metre), the unit of length in the International System of Units
  2. milli-
  3. (phonetics) used in the International Phonetic Alphabet and in several romanization systems of non-Latin scripts to represent the bilabial nasal (/m/), including Cyrillic м (m, “em”), the beginning of various kana including ま (ma), and Korean jamo ㅁ (m, “mieum”).
  4. mass
  5. month or months
  6. (music) mezzo, as in mezzo piano and mezzo forte

Etymology 3[edit]

From upper case roman numeral M (1000), an alteration of ⋈, from ∞, an alteration of ↀ, an alteration of Ⓧ, from encircling X (the roman numeral for ten) to indicate the hundredth ten.

Alternative forms[edit]

Numeral[edit]

m (lower case roman numeral, upper case M)

  1. (Roman numerals) The cardinal number one thousand (1000).
Synonyms[edit]

Gallery[edit]

  • Letter styles

  • Capital and lowercase versions of M, in normal and italic type

  • Uppercase and lowercase M in Fraktur

See also[edit]

Other representations of M:

English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Letter[edit]

m (lower case, upper case M, plural m's)

  1. The thirteenth letter of the English alphabet, called em and written in the Latin script.
See also[edit]

Number[edit]

m (lower case, upper case M)

  1. The ordinal number thirteenth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called em and written in the Latin script.

Etymology 2[edit]

Adjective[edit]

m

  1. (grammar) Abbreviation of masculine.

Noun[edit]

m

  1. Abbreviation of meter.
  2. Abbreviation of mile.
  3. Abbreviation of minute.
    • 1908, Francis Ernest Lloyd, The Physiology of Stomata (Carnegie Institution of Washington), page 83:
      Another instance: 2h28m p. m., 10 micra; 3h08m p. m., 0 micra; irrigated with water: 3h09m p. m., 4 micra.
  4. Abbreviation of million.
    • 2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport‎[1]:
      The final started with £85m worth of striking talent on the bench as Carroll was a Liverpool substitute and Chelsea's Fernando Torres missed out on a starting place against his former club.

Verb[edit]

m

  1. (knitting) make
    • 2011, Kristi Porter, Knitting Patterns For Dummies (page 232)
      Row 1 (RS): Kfb, knit to marker A, slip marker A, knit to marker B (there are no sts to knit between markers A and B in Row 1), m1, slip marker B, k1, slip marker B, m1, […]
Translations[edit]

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Azerbaijani[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Letter[edit]

m lower case (upper case M)

  1. The nineteenth letter of the Azerbaijani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Dutch[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Letter[edit]

m (lower case, upper case M)

  1. The thirteenth letter of the Dutch alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also[edit]

  • Previous letter: l
  • Next letter: n

See also[edit]

Egyptian[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Often suggested to be cognate to Hebrew בְּ־‏‎ (bə-), Arabic بِـ‎ (bi-); however, more recent scholarship disputes this on phonological grounds, as Egyptian m is not held to regularly correspond with Semitic *b by either the traditional school of Egyptian comparison or the neuere Komparatistik school.

Pronunciation[edit]

Preposition[edit]

m
  1. in
  2. (of time) in, for, during
  3. (with certain verbs of motion) into
  4. (with most verbs of motion) from within, out of, from
  5. (of material) made of, consisting of
  6. (of contents, e.g. of a group) consisting of, comprising
  7. by means of
  8. in a state of
  9. in the capacity of, in the role of, as, being
  10. (with following infinitive) forms the periphrastic imperfective of a verb
Usage notes[edit]

This preposition is often used with the second last definition here to indicate temporary identity, so, for example, z m ꜣhw (“the man is a poor man”) implies that this a temporary, rather than an eternal or generally true, state. Egyptian generally has an expansive view of what counts as a temporary identity compared to English.

Inflection[edit]
Adverbial forms of m  
 
im
 
jm
Alternative forms[edit]
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of m  
 
im
 
m

When the object of the preposition is an attached suffix pronoun, the adverbial form jm is used instead.

Derived terms[edit]
Terms derived from m

Etymology 2[edit]

Possibly originally a verb form, an imperative meaning ‘see’.

Particle[edit]

mD38

 proclitic

  1. (with a suffix pronoun) behold, lo, look
  2. (without a suffix pronoun) whether, although
Usage notes[edit]

This particle must introduce a sentence. In Middle Egyptian, it is usually followed by an attached second-person suffix pronoun, such as .k, .ṯ, .ṯnj, or .ṯn, indicating the person being addressed; after this comes the subject, in the form of a nominal subject, a demonstrative pronoun, or a dependent pronoun. In Old Egyptian, a dependent pronoun could be used instead of a suffix pronoun, reflecting the word’s origins as an imperative.

Alternative forms[edit]
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of m  
 
mD37
  		 
ma
 
m m

References[edit]

  • Allen, James (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, revised second edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 86, 115, 179–180, 194–195
  • Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN
  • Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 15
  1. ^ Takács, Gábor (1999-2008) Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian, volume 3, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN

Esperanto[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Letter[edit]

m (lower case, upper case M)

  1. The sixteenth letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called mo and written in the Latin script.

See also[edit]

Etulo[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

ḿ

  1. I, first-person singular pronoun
    ḿ wēnî — I drink water
    ḿ wēnī — I drank water

References[edit]

  • Rose-Juliet Anyanwu, Fundamentals of Phonetics, Phonology and Tonology (2008)

Faroese[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Letter[edit]

m (upper case M)

  1. The fifteenth letter of the Faroese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Finnish[edit]

Letter[edit]

m (lower case, upper case M)

  1. The thirteenth letter of the Finnish alphabet, called äm or em and written in the Latin script.

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French[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Letter[edit]

m (lower case, upper case M)

  1. The thirteenth letter of the French alphabet, written in the Latin script.
    • 1837, Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche‎fr.Wikisource, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Chapter III:
      L’aube du jour commençait à poindre quand don Quichotte sortit de l’hôtellerie, si content, si glorieux, si plein de ravissement de se voir armé chevalier, que sa joie en faisait tressaillir jusqu’aux sangles de son cheval.
      The dawn of the day was beginning to break when Don Quixote left the inn, so content, so glorious, so full of ravishment of seeing himself armed a knight, that his joy made him tremble all the way to the girths of his horse.

Fula[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Letter[edit]

m (lower case, upper case M)

  1. A letter of the Fula alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Usage notes[edit]

See also[edit]

Haitian Creole[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Contraction of mwen, from French moi.

Pronunciation[edit]

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Pronoun[edit]

m

  1. Contraction of mwen.

Hungarian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

m (plural m-ek)

  1. Abbreviation of méter.

Declension[edit]

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative m m-ek
accusative m-t m-eket
dative m-nek m-eknek
instrumental m-rel m-ekkel
causal-final m-ért m-ekért
translative m-ré m-ekké
terminative m-ig m-ekig
essive-formal m-ként m-ekként
essive-modal — —
inessive m-ben m-ekben
superessive m-en m-eken
adessive m-nél m-eknél
illative m-be m-ekbe
sublative m-re m-ekre
allative m-hez m-ekhez
elative m-ből m-ekből
delative m-ről m-ekről
ablative m-től m-ektől
Possessive forms of m
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. m-em m-eim
2nd person sing. m-ed m-eid
3rd person sing. m-e m-ei
1st person plural m-ünk m-eink
2nd person plural m-etek m-eitek
3rd person plural m-ük m-eik

Ido[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (context pronunciation) IPA(key): /m/
  • (letter name) IPA(key): /me/

Letter[edit]

m (upper case M)

  1. The thirteenth letter of the Ido alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also[edit]

Italian[edit]

Noun[edit]

m m, f (invariable)

  1. See under M

Latin[edit]

Letter[edit]

m

  1. The letter of the Latin alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Abbreviation[edit]

m

  1. Marcus

Latvian[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.

Pronunciation[edit]

(file)

Letter[edit]

M

m (lower case, upper case M)

  1. The twentieth letter of the Latvian alphabet, called em and written in the Latin script.

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Livonian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Letter[edit]

m (upper case M)

  1. The nineteenth letter of the Livonian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Malay[edit]

Letter[edit]

m (lower case, upper case M)

  1. The thirteenth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Mandarin[edit]

Romanization[edit]

m

  1. Nonstandard spelling of ḿ.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of m̀.

Usage notes[edit]

  • English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Mandinka[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

m

  1. I, me (personal pronoun)
    a m busa — he/she struck me.

See also[edit]

Mandinka personal pronouns
singular plural
1st person nte, n, m ntolu, ntelu, n
2nd person ite, i altolu, altelu, al
3rd person ate, a itolu, itelu, y

Norwegian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /emː/, /ɛmː/
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /m/

Letter[edit]

m

  1. The thirteenth letter of the Norwegian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Portuguese[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Letter[edit]

m (upper case M, lower case b)

  1. The thirteenth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Romanian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Letter[edit]

m (lower case, upper case M)

  1. The sixteenth letter of the Romanian alphabet, written in the Latin script. Representing the phoneme /m/. Preceded by l and followed by n.

Serbo-Croatian[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

  • (uppercase): M

Pronunciation[edit]

Letter[edit]

m (Cyrillic spelling м)

  1. The 18th letter of the Serbo-Croatian Latin alphabet, preceded by lj and followed by n.

Abbreviation[edit]

m (Cyrillic spelling м)

  1. (grammar) masculine gender
  2. meter (unit of length)

Skolt Sami[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Letter[edit]

m (upper case M)

  1. The twenty-first letter of the Skolt Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Spanish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Abbreviation[edit]

m

  1. Used in SMS for me

Letter[edit]

m (lower case, upper case M)

  1. The thirteenth letter of the Spanish alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Swahili[edit]

Prefix[edit]

m

  1. Marks a verb's object as 3rd person singular.
    ninamogopa
    I fearher

Swedish[edit]

Abbreviation[edit]

m

  1. w/, with; Abbreviation of med.
  2. Moderate Party; Abbreviation of Moderaterna.

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Turkish[edit]

Letter[edit]

m (lower case, upper case M)

  1. The sixteenth letter of the Turkish alphabet, called me and written in the Latin script.

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Turkmen[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Letter[edit]

m (upper case M)

  1. The fifteenth letter of the Turkmen alphabet, called em and written in the Latin script.

See also[edit]

Xhosa[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

-m

  1. Combining stem of mna used with possessive concords.
  2. Combining stem of mna.

Zulu[edit]

Letter[edit]

m (lower case, upper case M)

  1. The thirteenth letter of the Zulu alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also[edit]

ǃKung[edit]

Verb[edit]

m

  1. eat
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