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From Middle English men, from Old English menn (“people”), from Proto-Germanic *manniz, nominative plural of Proto-Germanic *mann- (“person”). Cognate with German Männer (“men”), Danish mænd (“men”), Swedish män (“men”). More at man.
men
- plural of man
1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. […] Indeed, all his features were in large mold, like the man himself, as though he had come from a day when skin garments made the proper garb of men.
men pl (plural only)
- (collective, dated) (The) people, humanity, man(kind).
1776, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
- (collective, military) Enlisted personnel (as opposed to commissioned officers).
"Muster up the men in the barracks at 0600," the lieutenant said to his sergeant.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:men.
human people
- Arabic: نَاس m pl (nās)
- Catalan: homes (ca) m pl
- Chinese:
- Czech: lidé (cs) m pl
- Dutch: mensen (nl) m pl, men (collective singular)
- Esperanto: homoj (eo)
- Estonian: inimesed (et) pl, rahvas (et)
- French: gens (fr) m pl, hommes (fr) m pl, on (fr)
- German: Menschen (de) m pl, Leute (de) m pl
- Greek: άνθρωπος (el) m (ánthropos)
- Hindi: लोग (hi) pl (log)
- Italian: genti (it) m pl
- Japanese: 人々 (ja) (ひとびと, hitobito)
- Korean: 사람들 (saramdeul)
- Latin: homines m pl
- Macedonian: луѓе (luǵe)
- Maricopa: 'iipash
- Occitan: òmes (oc) m pl, òmis m pl
- Polish: ludzie (pl) m pers pl
- Portuguese: homens (pt) m pl
- Romanian: oameni (ro) m pl
- Russian: лю́ди (ru) m pl (ljúdi)
- Slovak: ľudia (sk) m pl
- Somali: rag
- Swahili: wabinadamu
- Urdu: لوگ pl (log)
- Uzbek: kishilar
men
- A command
men
- softer form of fakkun (“very”)
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
men m (plural meyn)
From Proto-Turkic *ben (“I”). Compare Turkish ben (“I”).
men (plural biz, possessive adjective menim)
- (personal) I (first-person singular)
From Old Norse mein, from Proto-Germanic *mainą (“damage, hurt, injustice, sin”).
men or mén n or c (singular definite menet or menen, plural indefinite men, plural definite menene)
Same origin as Old Norse meðan (“while”).
men
From Middle Dutch men, an unstressed variety of man (“man”). Accordingly, originally pronounced with [ə]; now predominantly with a full vowel [ɛ], especially in those areas where the word is chiefly literary. Compare German man, Middle English men (indefinite pronoun).
men
- (indefinite, subject) one, you, they, everyone; humanity, (the) people, the public opinion
- Men zegt dat... ― People say that.... It is said that...
- Men weet nooit wat er gaat gebeuren. ― You never know what’s going to happen.
- When not used as a subject, men must be replaced with je (“you”) or sometimes ze (“them”).
- The word as such is very common in Limburg and some other areas, where it is part of the local dialects. Elsewhere it is not downright rare but perceived as formal and predominantly replaced with je and ze even as a subject (similarly to English one).
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
men
- inflection of mennen:
See møna
men f (genitive singular menar, plural menir or menar)
- (rare, Mykines) The spinal cord
Declension of men | ||||
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f2 | singular | plural | ||
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | men | menin | menir | menirnar |
accusative | men | menina | menir | menirnar |
dative | men | menini | menum | menunum |
genitive | menar | menarinnar | mena | menanna |
f6 | Singular | Plural | ||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | men | menin | menar | menarnar |
Accusative | men | menina | menar | menarnar |
Dative | men | menini | menum | menunum |
Genitive | menar | menarinnar | mena | menanna |
- (common) møna
From Danish men derived from Old Norse meðan (“while”).
men
men
- Used in Pular.
- min (Pulaar, Adamawa, Dageeja, Fouta-toro, Liptaako, Sokoto, Zaria, Gombe)
- Oumar Bah, Dictionnaire Pular-Français, Avec un index français-pular, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2014.
- Ritsuko Miyamoto (1993) “A Study of Fula Dialects : Examining the Continuous/Stative Constructions”, in Senri Ethnological Studies[3], volume 35, →DOI, pages 215-230
men
men
From Old Norse men, from Proto-Germanic *manją. Compare Old English mene.
men n (genitive singular mens, nominative plural men)
Declension of men | ||||
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n-s | singular | plural | ||
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | men | menið | men | menin |
accusative | men | menið | men | menin |
dative | meni | meninu | menum | menunum |
genitive | mens | mensins | mena | menanna |
- hálsmen (“pendant necklace”)
men (apocopated)
men
- (literary, archaic) Contraction of me ne.
1723, Anton Maria Salvini, transl., Iliade [Iliad][4], Milan: Giovanni Gaetano Tartini, Santi Franchi, translation of Ἰλιάς (Iliás) by Homer, Book I, page 9:
Men vo alle navi, appo aver fatte in guerra
ben gravi, e dure, e faticose imprese- I return to the ships, after grave, hard and laborious war endeavours
men
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Arabic | مەن |
Cyrillic | мен |
Latin | men |
From Proto-Turkic *ben (“I”).
men
- I (first-person singular nominative and disjunctive pronoun)
Haplologised variant of менен (menen), from original برلان (birlān /birlän/, attested to be pronounced as mınen).
men
men
men
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 們/们
men
- Nonstandard spelling of mēn.
- Nonstandard spelling of mén.
- Nonstandard spelling of mèn.
- Nonstandard spelling of mê̄n.
- 《汉语拼音方案》 (Scheme for the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet) defines a standard pronunciation for each letter in Hanyu Pinyin with Zhuyin. ㄝ (/ɛ/) typically only occurs in syllables with an initial glide (e.g. ㄧㄝ (-ie /i̯ɛ/)), where it is romanized as e. When it occurs in syllables without an initial glide, however, it is romanized as ê in order to distinguish it from ㄜ (-e /ɤ/). Such instances are rare, and are only found in interjections or neologisms.
- Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.
An unstressed variety of man.
men
This pronoun needs an inflection-table template.
- “men”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “men (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
men
- Alternative form of man (“one, you”)
From Old English menn, plural of mann, from Proto-Germanic *manniz, plural of *mann-.
men
An unstressed pronunciation of mònn (“man”). Compare German man, Dutch men for a similar construct.
men
- “men” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.
Via Swedish and Danish men, same origin as Old Norse meðan (“while”).
men
- But, however; introducing a clause that contrasts with the preceding clause, sentence or common belief.
- though
- only
- Han er en fin kar, men han snakker litt for mye. – He is a nice guy, but he talks a bit too much.
From Old Norse mein.
men
- damage; injury (also mén)
- permanent disability
- difficulty; drawback
men
- imperative of mene
Via Swedish and Danish men, same origin as Old Norse meðan (“while”).
men
- but, however; introducing a clause that contrasts with the preceding clause, sentence or common belief.
- though
- only
From men.
men n (definite singular menet, uncountable)
- “men” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
From Proto-Germanic *manją. Cognate with Old English mene.
men n (genitive mens, plural men)
- Brísingamen
- menglǫtuðr (“ring-destroyer; kenning for a wealthy ruler”)
men
- to want
From Proto-Turkic *ben.
men
- First singular personal pronoun; I.
- Tenishev, Edhem (1976) “men”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, page 224
- 林莲云 [Lin Lianyun] (1985) “men”, in 撒拉语简志 [A Brief History of Salar][5], Beijing: 民族出版社: 琴書店, →OCLC, page 53
- 马伟 [Ma Wei], 朝克 [Chao Ke] (2014) “men”, in 撒拉语366条会话读本 [Salar 366 Conversation Reader][6], 1st edition, 社会科学文献出版社 [Social Science Literature Press], →ISBN, page 111
- Ma, Chengjun, Han, Lianye, Ma, Weisheng (December 2010) “men”, in 米娜瓦尔 艾比布拉 (Minavar Abibra), editor, 撒维汉词典 (Sāwéihàncídiǎn) [Salar-Uyghur-Chinese dictionary] (in Chinese), 1st edition, Beijing, →ISBN, page 180
- 张, 进锋 (Ayso Cañ Cinfen) (2008) 乌璐别格 (Ulubeğ), 鄭初陽 (Çuyañ Yebey oğlı Ceñ), editors, Salar İbret Sözler 撒拉尔谚语 [Salar Proverbs][7], China Salar Youth League, page 43
men (plural menti)
- James Frederick Schön, James Frederick Schön, Sherbro Vocabulary (1839), page 24
men m pl
- plural of man
- (Peru, colloquial) dude
men
- Romanization of 𒃞 (men)
From Old Swedish men, from Middle Low German men, man (“but, only”), probably from Old Saxon niwan; possibly under the influence of Old Swedish men (“while, during”) (modern Swedish medan, medans, mens). Cognate with modern Low German man.
men
- but; introducing a clause that contrasts with the preceding clause, sentence or common belief.
- yet, but, however
John har bott i staden i fem år, men aldrig besökt slottet.
- John has lived in the city for five years, yet never visited the castle.
From Old Norse mein, cognate with Icelandic mein, Norwegian mein, Old Saxon mēn, Old English mān; cognate with Icelandic meinn (“which causes injury”), Old English mǣne (“evil, deceptive”, adj), Lithuanian maĭnas (“change”, noun), Proto-Slavic *měna (“change”, noun); from the Proto-Indo-European root *mei- (“to switch”).
men n
Declension of men | ||||
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Nominative | men | menet | men | menen |
Genitive | mens | menets | mens | menens |
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish منع (menʾ, “a preventing, hindering, hindrance, a forbidding, prohibition”),[1][2] from Arabic مَنْع (manʕ, “prevention”), verbal noun of مَنَعَ (manaʕa, “to hinder, to prevent, to repel”).[3]
men (definite accusative meni, plural menler)
- An act of prohibiting, forbidding
- Synonym: yasaklama
- An act of preventing, hindering
- Synonyms: engel olma, önleme
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From Proto-Turkic *ben (“I, me”).[4][5]
men
- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “منع”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2006
- ^ Kélékian, Diran (1911) “منع”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1235
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “men”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*bẹ-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ben”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- “men”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “men”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3132
From Proto-Turkic *ben (“I”). Compare Turkish ben (“I”).
men
- (personal) I
men
- Latin (ULY) transcription of مەن (men)
Other scripts | |
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Cyrillic | мен |
Latin | men |
Perso-Arabic |
From Proto-Turkic *ben (“I”).
men
- (personal) I
From Proto-Vietic *-mɛːn.
- yeast
- (biochemistry) enzyme
- alcohol (in terms of its euphorigenic or intoxicating effects)
This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Seems like a borrowing from a Western language at first glance but does not hold up at closer look on phonological ground. Earliest attestation I can find is in Như Tây nhựt trình (1889).” |
men
From German Mann and English man, both from Proto-Germanic *mann-.
men
- man (male or female), human, human being
1932, Arie de Jong, Leerboek der Wereldtaal, page 15:
Blod mena at binom sudik.
- The brother of this man is deaf.
Variant of earlier ben, from Proto-Celtic *bend(n)ā (whence Latin benna), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ- (“to bind”).
men f (plural menni or mennau)
- Men Carl (“Charles' Wain, the Big Dipper”)
- Men Siarlmaen (“Charles' Wain, the Big Dipper”)
- Men Siarlys (“Charles' Wain, the Big Dipper”)
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “men”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
men
- door
men kai-di-li.
- The door is kept open.
- Juha Janhunen, Marja Peltomaa, Erika Sandman, Xiawu Dongzhou (2008) Wutun (LINCOM's Descriptive Grammar Series), volume 466, LINCOM Europa, →ISBN
- Erika Sandman (2016) A Grammar of Wutun[8], University of Helsinki (PhD), →ISBN