m

See also: Appendix:Variations of "m"

Translingual

Unicode name	LATIN SMALL LETTER M
Codepoint	U+006D
l ← Basic Latin → n

Wikipedia

Etymology 1

Modification of capital letter M, from Ancient Greek letter Μ (M, “Mu”).

Letter

m lower case (upper case M)

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

See also

• (Latin script):  Aa  Bb  Cc  Dd  Ee  Ff  Gg  Hh  Ii  Jj  Kk  Ll  Mm  Nn  Oo  Pp  Qq  Rr  Ss  Tt  Uu  Vv  Ww  Xx  Yy  Zz
• (Variations of letter M):  Ḿḿ  Ṁṁ  Ṃṃ  ᵯ  ᶆ  Ɱɱ  ᴍ  Ｍｍ
• (other scripts) μ (m, “mu”), м (m, “em”)
• Turned: ɯ

Etymology 2

Various abbreviations.

Pronunciation

• IPA

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Symbol

Wikipedia

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 (IPA^(key): /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

Etymology 3

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

• M, ⅿ, Ⅿ

Numeral

m (lower case roman numeral, upper case M)

1. (Roman numerals) cardinal number one thousand (1000)

Synonyms

• CIƆ

See also

Other representations of M:

NATO phonetic: Mike Morse code: –– Braille: ⠍ ASL Manual: M

Signal flag:

Semaphore:

• Letter styles
• 

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

• 

  Uppercase and lowercase M in Fraktur

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English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛm/

Audio (US)

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Audio (UK)

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Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

See also

• (Latin script letters) letter; Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Qq, Rr, Ss, Tt, Uu, Vv, Ww, Xx, Yy, Zz

Number

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

Abbreviation

m

1. metre
2. (grammar) masculine
3. mile
4. milli
5. million
   • 2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, BBC Sport:

     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.

6. minute
   • 1908, Francis Ernest Lloyd, The Physiology of Stomata (Carnegie Institution of Washington), page 83:

     Another instance: 2^h28^m p. m., 10 micra; 3^h08^m p. m., 0 micra; irrigated with water: 3^h09^m p. m., 4 micra.

7. (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

metre

• Hungarian: méter (hu)
• Khmer: ម. (mɔ)

• Polish: metr (pl) n
• Russian: м (ru) (m)

masculine

• Hebrew: ז (he) (z)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can

• Marathi: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: м (ru) (m)

mile

• Hungarian: mérföld (hu)

milli

• Russian: м (ru) (m)

million

• Russian: млн (ru) (mln)

See also

• M

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Azeri

Letter

m lower case (upper case M)

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

See also

• (Latin script letters) hərf; Aa, Bb, Cc, Çç, Dd, Ee, Əə, Ff, Gg, Ğğ, Hh, Xx, Iı, İi, Jj, Kk, Qq, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Öö, Pp, Rr, Ss, Şş, Tt, Uu, Üü, Vv, Yy, Zz

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛm
• (letter name): IPA^(key): /ɛm/

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

See also

• Previous letter: l
• Next letter: n

See also

• 'm

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Egyptian

Preposition

1. in,
2. (of time) in, for, during
3. (with verbs of motion) into, out of
4. (of material) made of
5. by means of
6. in the state of, as, is

Usage notes

This preposition is often used, with the sixth definition here to indicate temporary identity, so for example s m 3hw (the man is a poor man), implies that this a temporary, rather than an eternal state. Egyptian generally has an expansive view of what counts as a temporary identity, compared to English.

Alternative hieroglyphic writings:

m

Inflection

Adverbial form

jm

References

Allen, Middle Egyptian
Faulkner, Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian

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Esperanto

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

See also

• (Latin script letters) litero; Aa, Bb, Cc, Ĉĉ, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Ĝĝ, Hh, Ĥĥ, Ii, Jj, Ĵĵ, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Rr, Ss, Ŝŝ, Tt, Uu, Ŭŭ, Vv, Zz

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Etulo

Pronoun

ḿ

1. I, first-person singular pronoun

   ḿ wēnî — I drink water

   ḿ wēnī — I drank water

References

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

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French

Letter

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 Manche^{fr.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.

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Haitian Creole

Etymology

Contraction of mwen, from French moi.

Pronoun

m

1. Contraction of mwen.

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Italian

Noun

m m, f (invariable)

1. See under M

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Latin

Letter

m

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

Abbreviation

m

1. Marcus

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Latvian

Wikipedia ^lv

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): [m]

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Letter

M

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

See also

• Letters of the Latvian alphabet:

  burti: Aa, Āā, Bb, Cc, Čč, Dd, Ee, Ēē, Ff, Gg, Ģģ, Hh, Ii, Īī, Jj, Kk, Ķķ, Ll, Ļļ, Mm, Nn, Ņņ, Oo, Pp, Rr, Ss, Šš, Tt, Uu, Ūū, Vv, Zz, Žž

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Livonian

Pronunciation

• (phoneme) IPA^(key): /m/

Letter

m (upper case M)

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

See also

• (Latin script letters) kēratēḑ; Aa, Āā, Ää, Ǟǟ, Bb, Dd, Ḑḑ, Ee, Ēē, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, Īī, Jj, Kk, Ll, Ļļ, Mm, Nn, Ņņ, Oo, Ōō, Ȯȯ, Ȱȱ, Õõ, Ȭȭ, Pp, Rr, Ŗŗ, Ss, Šš, Tt, Țț, Uu, Ūū, Vv, Zz, Žž,

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Malay

Letter

m

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

See also

• (Latin script letters) Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Qq, Rr, Ss, Tt, Uu, Vv, Ww, Xx, Yy, Zz

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Mandarin

Romanization

m

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

Usage notes

• 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.

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Mandinka

Pronoun

m

1. I, me (personal pronoun)

   a m busa — he/she struck me.

See also

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

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Norwegian

Pronunciation

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

Letter

m

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

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Audio (BR)

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Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

1. The thirteenth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, called mê or eme and written in the Latin script.
   • 2005, Lya Wyler (translator), J. K. Rowling (English author), Harry Potter e o Enigma do Príncipe (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince), Rocco, page 375:

     Confiem em mim. Sei o que estou fazendo...

     Trust me. I know what I'm doing...

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me/, /em/

Letter

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.

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (uppercase): M

Pronunciation

• (phoneme) IPA^(key): /m/

Letter

m (Cyrillic spelling м)

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

Abbreviation

m (Cyrillic spelling м)

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

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Skolt Sami

Pronunciation

• (phoneme) IPA^(key): /m/

Letter

m (upper case M)

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

See also

• (Latin script letters) bukva; Aa, Ââ, Bb, Cc, Čč, Ʒʒ, Ǯǯ, Dd, Đđ, Ee, Ff, Gg, Ǧǧ, Ǥǥ, Hh, Ii, Jj, Kk, Ǩǩ, Ll, Mm, Nn, Ŋŋ, Oo, Õõ, Pp, Rr, Ss, Šš, Tt, Uu, Vv, Zz, Žž, Åå, Ää, ˊ

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Spanish

Abbreviation

m

1. Used in SMS for me

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

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Swedish

Abbreviation

m

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

See also

• m.a.o.
• m.fl.
• m.m.
• mvh

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Turkish

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

See also

• (Latin script letters) harf; Aa, Bb, Cc, Çç, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Ğğ, Hh, Iı, İi, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Öö, Pp, Rr, Ss, Şş, Tt, Uu, Üü, Vv, Yy, Zz

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Turkmen

Pronunciation

• (phoneme) IPA^(key): /m/

Letter

m (upper case M)

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

See also

• (Latin script letters) harp; Aa, Bb, Çç, Dd, Ee, Ää, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, Jj, Žž, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Ňň, Oo, Öö, Pp, Rr, Ss, Şş, Tt, Uu, Üü, Ww, Yy, Ýý, Zz,

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ǃKung

Verb

m

1. eat