man

head

man (plural mans or manne, diminutive mannetjie)

mans (plural)
manne (plural)
mannetjie (diminutive)

From Dutch man, from Middle Dutch man, from Old Dutch man, from Proto-Germanic *mann-, from Proto-Indo-European *mon- (“human being, man”).


man

sq-noun

man m (plural mana, definite mani, definite plural manat)

mana (plural)
mani (definite)
manat (definite plural)
man (indefinite nominative singular)
mani (definite nominative singular)
mana (indefinite nominative plural)
manat (definite nominative plural)
man (accusative indefinite singular)
manin (accusative definite singular)
mana (accusative indefinite plural)
manat (accusative definite plural)
mani (dative indefinite singular)
manit (dative definite singular)
manave (dative indefinite plural)
manave (dative definite plural)
mani (ablative indefinite singular)
manit (ablative definite singular)
manash (ablative indefinite plural)
manave (ablative definite plural)

Syncopated form of Gheg mand, from Proto-Albanian *manta. Compare Ancient Greek βάτος (bátos, “bramble”), said by Beekes to be a Mediterranean wanderwort, and μαντία (mantía, “blackberry”) (Dacian loan).


man

I, first person singular pronoun, as subject


man

Dai man iyan

used to abate or soften the impacts of negatives and commands


man

Hain man si Pedro?
(Person 2): Tua man 'to siya sa Carcar
(Person 1): Where is Pedro?
(Person 2): He is/was there in Carcar

Hain man si Pedro?
(Person 2): Tua siya sa Carcar
(Person 3 responding to person 2): Tua man gud siya sa Cebu
(Person 1): Where is Pedro?
(Person 2): He is in Carcar
(Person 3): No, he's in Cebu

contradicts a previous statement or presumption; usually with the particle ugod/gud

Hain man si Pedro?

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *man. Compare Tagalog man.


man

For quotations using this term, see Citations:man.


man

From Middle High German man, from Old High German man, from Proto-Germanic *mann-.


man

manka (feminine)
man (nominative singular)
manové (nominative plural)
mana (genitive singular)
manů (genitive plural)
manovi (dative singular)
manu (dative singular)
manům (dative plural)
mana (accusative singular)
many (accusative plural)
mane (singular vocative)
manové (plural vocative)
manovi (locative singular)
manu (locative singular)
manech (locative plural)
manem (instrumental singular)
many (instrumental plural)

From Old Czech man, from Middle High German and Old High German man.


man

(rare, used primarily by horse specialists) mane (longer hair growth on the back of the neck of a horse)

head

man c (singular definite manen, plural indefinite maner)

manen (definite singular)
maner (indefinite plural)
man (indefinite nominative singular)
manen (definite nominative singular)
maner (indefinite nominative plural)
manerne (definite nominative plural)
mans (genitive indefinite singular)
manens (definite genitive singular)
maners (genitive indefinite plural)
manernes (definite genitive plural)

From Old Norse mǫn, from Proto-Germanic *manō (“mane”).


man

Kan man spise dem?

Can one eat them? (i.e., Are they edible?)

Man siger, at huset er hjemsøgt.

you, one, they, people (a general, unspecified person)

I (used modestly instead of the first-person pronoun)

you (used derogatorily instead of the second-person pronoun)

man (accusative en or én, possessive ens or éns)

en (accusative)
én (accusative)
ens (possessive)
éns (possessive)

The same word as the noun mand (“man”). Calque of German man.


man

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.


man

De man liep rustig door het park.

De jonge mannen speelden voetbal op het veld.

The young men were playing soccer on the field.

De oudere man glimlachte vriendelijk naar de kinderen.

The older man smiled kindly at the children.

man, human male, either adult or age-irrespective

Ze is al jaren gelukkig getrouwd met haar man.

She has been happily married to her husband for years.

Hij is een zorgzame man en een geweldige vader.

He is a caring husband and a great father.

Haar man verraste haar met een romantisch diner.

Her husband surprised her with a romantic dinner.

nl-noun

man m (plural mannen or man or mans, diminutive mannetje n or manneke n or manneken n)

mannen (plural)
man (plural)
mans (plural)
mannetje (diminutive neuter)
manneke (diminutive neuter)
manneken (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: man

Jersey Dutch: mān

Negerhollands: man

→ Virgin Islands Creole: mani (dated)

→ Caribbean Javanese: mang

From Middle Dutch man, from Old Dutch man, from Proto-West Germanic *mann, from Proto-Germanic *mann-.


man

Man, is me dat schrikken.

Indicates that something is larger/stronger/... than usual.


man

The show is especially popular with middle-aged men.

The king is but a man, as I am; the violet smells to him as it doth to me.

1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

“[…]it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”

1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

Unsurprisingly, if modern man is a sort of camera, modern woman is a picture.

2011, Eileen Gray and the Design of Sapphic Modernity: Staying In, page 109:

(collective) All human males collectively: mankind.

every man for himself

[…]a man cannot make him laugh.

c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:

Recompence to no man euill for euill.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 12:17:

No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; […]

1624, John Donne, “17. Meditation”, in Deuotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Seuerall Steps in My Sicknes: […], London: Printed by A[ugustine] M[atthews] for Thomas Iones, →OCLC; republished as Geoffrey Keynes, edited by John Sparrow, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions: […], Cambridge: At the University Press, 1923, →OCLC, page 98, lines 2–3:

A man would expect, in so very ancient a town of Italy, to find some considerable antiquities; but all they have to show of this nature is an old Rostrum of a Roman ship, that stands over the door of their arsenal.

c. 1700, Joseph Addison, Monaco, Genoa, &c., page 9:

Without this help, such a deplorable havoc is made in the minds of men (both sexes) in France, still more than in the external order of things, and the evil is so great and spreading, that a remedy is impossible on any other terms.

1793 August, Edmund Burke, “The Right Hon. Edmund Burke to the Comte de Mercy”, in Charles William [Wentworth-Fitzwilliam], [5th] Earl Fitzwilliam, Richard Bourke, editors, Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke; Between the Year 1744, and the Period of His Decease, in 1797, volume IV, London: Francis & John Rivington, […], published 1844, pages 144–145:

Similarly, the next time you learn from your reading that the average man (you hear a good deal about him these days, most of it faintly improbable) brushes his teeth 1.02 times a day—a figure I have just made up, but it may be as good as anyone else's – ask yourself a question. How can anyone have found out such a thing? Is a woman who has read in countless advertisements that non-brushers are social offenders going to confess to a stranger that she does not brush her teeth regularly?

1991 edition (original: 1953), Darell Huff, How to Lie with Statistics, pages 19–20

A human, a person regardless of gender or sex, usually an adult. (See usage notes.)

How did God create man?
God created man male and female, after his own image, in knowledge, righteousness, and holiness, with dominion over the creatures.

1647, Westminster Shorter Catechism, question 10

Academics who study Aboriginal languages are […] contributing to Man’s search for knowledge, a search that interests most people even if they are not personally involved in it.

1991, Barry J. Blake, Australian Aboriginal Languages: A General Introduction, page 75:

Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.

2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:

We are striving to forge our union with purpose. To compose a country committed to all cultures, colors, characters and conditions of man.

2021 January 20, Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb:

(collective) All humans collectively: mankind, humankind, humanity. (Sometimes capitalized as Man.)

The evidence suggests that close relatives of early man, in lineages that later became extinct, also were able to use tools.

1990, The Almanac of Science and Technology, →ISBN, page 68:

(anthropology, archaeology, paleontology) A member of the genus Homo, especially of the species Homo sapiens.

A member of the genus Homo, especially of the species Homo sapiens.

For God is holde a ryghtwys man.

c. 1500, “A Gest of Robyn Hode”, in Child Ballads:

God's a good man.

1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:

Expect: But was the devil a proper man, gossip?
As fine a gentleman of his inches as ever I saw trusted to the stage, or any where else.

1609 December (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Epicoene, or The Silent Woman. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

Clearing a space between the tables, the men tested their prowess against one another with feats of wrestling and archery and bouts with quarterstaves. Two of the elves, a man and a woman, demonstrated their skill with swordplay—[…]

2008, Christopher Paolini, Brisingr: Or The Seven Promises of Eragon Shadeslayer and Saphira Bjartskular - Inheritance Book Three, →ISBN, page 549:

There was a pair of burly dwarves – a woman and a man – bearing the markings of the formidable Thane Guards.

2014, Oisin McGann, Kings of the Realm: Cruel Salvation, Penguin UK, →ISBN:

A male person, usually an adult; a (generally adult male) sentient being, whether human, supernatural, elf, alien, etc.

He’s more a man than any pair of rats of you in this here house[…]

1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, “In The Enemy’s Camp”, in Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC, part VI (Captain Silver), page 234:

I had the opportunity to marry one of them but wasn't mature enough to be a man and marry her and be close to the[…]children and raise them[…].

2011, Timothy Shephard, Can We Help Us?: Growing Up Bi-Racial in America, →ISBN, page 181:

An adult male who has, to an eminent degree, qualities considered masculine, such as strength, integrity, and devotion to family; a mensch.

Methought he bare himself in such a fashion, / So full of man, and sweetness in his carriage, /[…]

1598, Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Euery Man in His Humour. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

(uncountable, obsolete, uncommon) Manliness; the quality or state of being manly.

Manliness; the quality or state of being manly.

I pronounce that they are man and wife.

1549 March 7, Thomas Cranmer [et al.], compilers, The Booke of the Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacramentes, […], London: […] Edowardi Whitchurche […], →OCLC:

In the next place, every wife ought to answer for her man.

Stay away from my man, Sister!

Some people prefer apple pie, but me, I’m a cherry pie man.

A male enthusiast or devotee; a male who is very fond of or devoted to a specified kind of thing. (Used as the last element of a compound.)

I wanted to be a guitar man on a road tour, but instead I’m a flag man on a road crew.

A person, usually male, who has duties or skills associated with a specified thing. (Used as the last element of a compound.)

"She's the man for the job."

2007, Thriller: Stories to Keep You Up All Night, →ISBN, page 553:

Joanie volunteered, of course — if any dirty job is on offer requiring running, she's your man —

2008, Soccer Dad: A Father, a Son, and a Magic Season, →ISBN, page 148:

He also owns the only backhoe tractor on Elbow Cay, so whenever anyone needs a cistern dug, he's their man.

2012, The Island Caper: A Jake Lafferty Action Novel, →ISBN, page 34:

A person, usually male, who can fulfill one's requirements with regard to a specified matter.

When President Roosevelt goes walking in the country about Washington he is always accompanied by two Secret Service men.

1909, Harper's Weekly, volume 53, page iii:

"And they're very good people, I assure you — he's a Harvard man." It was the first time Milly had met on intimate terms a graduate of a large university.

1913, Robert Herrick, One Woman's Life, page 46:

A male who belongs to a particular group: an employee, a student or alumnus, a representative, etc.

Like master, like man. (old proverb)

all the king's men

The vassal, or tenant, kneeling, ungirt, uncovered, and holding up his hands between those of his lord, professed that he did become his man from that day forth, of life, limb, and earthly honour.

No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait.

1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 46:

The white men are always put on that side of the board which commences by row I, and the black men are placed opposite.

1883, Henry Richter, Chess Simplified!, page 4:

A piece or token used in board games such as backgammon.

Come on, man, we've got no time to lose!

A term of familiar address often implying on the part of the speaker some degree of authority, impatience, or haste.

Hey, man, how's it goin'?

A friendly term of address usually reserved for other adult males.

2018 Dinny Navaratnam, Andrews will learn from experience: Fagan Brisbane Lions, 30 July 2018. Accessed 6 August 2018.
"It was a brutal return to football for Brisbane Lions defender Harris Andrews as his man Tom Hawkins booted seven goals but Lions Coach Chris Fagan said the team's defensive faults, rather than the backman's, allowed the big Cat to dominate."

The second arrived three minutes later and was all Saka's own work, the Arsenal winger turning away from his man on the edge of the area and curling a superb effort beyond the reach of Anatoliy Trubin and into the top corner.

2023 March 26, Phil McNulty, “England 2-0 Ukraine”, in BBC Sport:

(sports) A player on whom another is playing, with the intent of limiting their attacking impact.

The roentgen-equivalent-man (or mammal), (rem), is the estimated amount of energy absorbed in tissue which is biologically equivalent in man to 1 r of gamma- or x-rays.

1953, Notes, Medical Basic Sciences Course, 1950-1953, volume 2, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, page 695:

A clipping of "in man" or equivalent used in the CGS unit roentgen equivalent man.

non-commissioned officer
non-commissioned officer

(military slang) a soldier below the rank of a non-commissioned officer.

a soldier below the rank of a non-commissioned officer.

mang

dialectal rendering, suggesting a Spanish accent

mane

dialectal rendering, suggesting an AAVE accent

mon

used in the vocative, in places such as Jamaica and Shropshire in England

a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle

a woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle

behind every great man there stands a woman

behind every successful man there stands a woman

every man is the architect of his own fortune

give a man a fish and you feed him for a day

teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime

it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God

the best laid plans of mice and men go oft astray

the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry

Tok Pisin: man

→ Cantonese: man

→ Chinook Jargon: man

→ Korean: 맨 (maen)

→ Mandarin: man (mān)

→ Spanish: man

→ Thai: แมน (mɛɛn)

→ Volapük: man

From Middle English man, from Old English mann m (“human being, person, man”), from Proto-West Germanic *mann, from Proto-Germanic *mann- m, from Proto-Indo-European *mon- (“human being, man”). Doublet of Manu.

inh

Old English mann m (“human being, person, man”)


man

Man, that was a great catch!

The 19 meandering minutes of Dark Star are attractive enough but, man, they go on, while poor Creedence Clearwater Revival – headliners, with Bad Moon Rising still in the charts – are watching the clock tick in the wings.

2019 August 15, Bob Stanley, “'Groovy, groovy, groovy': listening to Woodstock 50 years on – all 38 discs”, in The Guardian:

For quotations using this term, see Citations:man.

Used to place emphasis upon something or someone; sometimes, but not always, when actually addressing a man.

чове́к

an interjection used to place emphasis upon something or someone


man

man's got some new creps

Sully: If it weren’t for that snake […] Man wouldn’t even be in this mess right now.

before I got arrested man paid for my own ticket to go Jamaica you know . but I’ve never paid to go on no holiday before this time I paid (Dexter, MLE)

2013, Jenny Cheshire, “Grammaticalisation in social context: The emergence of a new English pronoun”, in Journal of Sociolinguistics, volume 17, number 5, page 609:

The girl told me, "take off your jacket" / I said, "Babe, man's not hot" (never hot)

2017 September 22, “Man's Not Hot”performed by Big Shaq [Michael Dapaah]:

Blood I swear she just gave man extra chicken? Two fat pieces of chicken.

2017, Joseph Barnes Phillips, Big Foot ...and Tiny Little Heartstrings:

(MLE, slang, personal pronoun) Used to refer to oneself or one's group: I, we; construed in the third person.

man thinks i was born yesterday

Oh, come on. Help a brother out. People see you coppin', might inspire them. Look, I know you ain't payin' bills right now. Man must have bare peas saved up.

2023, Nathan Bryon, Tom Melia, directed by Raine Allen-Miller, Rye Lane, spoken by Nathan (Simon Manyonda):

(MLE, slang, personal pronoun) You; construed in the third person.

man don't care

He was of all colours Þat man may se of flours Be-twene Mydsomer and May.

c. 1450, Thomas Chestre, Libeaus Desconus:

I don’t really mind how . how my girl looks if she looks decent yeah and there’s one bit of her face that just looks mashed yeah . I don’t care it’s her personality man’s looking at (Alex, Multicultural London English corpus [MLE])

(MLE, slang, indefinite personal pronoun) Any person, one


man

The ship was manned with a small crew.

In Britain, nearly 2,500 steam locomotives were built, 999 to new designs. Although the latter were modern, they were still labour-intensive to man and maintain, during a period of full employment when working for poor pay in the dirty railway environment was unattractive.

2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 39:

(transitive) To supply (something) with staff or crew (of either sex).

Man the machine guns!

‘Avast!’ roared Ahab, dashing him against the bulwarks — ‘Man the boat! Which way heading?’

(transitive) To take up position in order to operate (something).

he manned himself heroically

(reflexive, possibly dated) To brace (oneself), to fortify or steel (oneself) in a manly way. (Compare man up.)

(transitive, obsolete) To wait on, attend to or escort.

(transitive, obsolete, chiefly falconry) To accustom (a raptor or other type of bird) to the presence of people.

en-verb

man (third-person singular simple present mans, present participle manning, simple past and past participle manned)

mans (present singular third-person)
manning (participle present)
manned (participle past)
manned (past)

beman

to take up position in order to operate something

From Middle English mannen, from Old English mannian, ġemannian (“to man, supply with men, populate, garrison”), from mann (“human being, man”).
cognates
* Dutch bemannen (“to man”)
* German bemannen (“to man”)
* Danish bemande (“to man”)
* Swedish bemanna (“to man”)
* Icelandic manna (“to supply with men, man”).


man

(computing) A command used to display help pages in Unix and Unix-like operating systems.


man

From Old Galician-Portuguese mão, from Latin manus.


man

I, he, she, it will / may

first/third-person singular present of munna


man

(colloquial) one, they (indefinite third-person singular pronoun)


man

Man colocataire a fait son coming out non-binaire.

1 Also used before feminine adjectives and nouns beginning with a vowel

For the singular persons there are gender-neutral neologisms man


man

(figurative) ownership; protection; power; grasp

From Old Galician-Portuguese mão, from Latin manus. Cognate with Portuguese mão and Spanish mano.


man

Man kann nicht immer kriegen, was man will.

Manchmal muss man Kompromisse machen.

Zumindest sagt man das so...

Kann man es fühlen, wenn man schwanger ist?

2008, Frank Behmeta, Wenn ich die Augen öffne, page 55:

one, you, they (indefinite pronoun, referring to people at large; construed as a third-person singular)

From Middle High German man, from Old High German man, from Proto-West Germanic *mann, from Proto-Germanic *mann- (“person”).


man

Komm man hier rüber!

Das sind man dreißig Stück oder so.

(colloquial, regional, Northern Germany) just; only

From Middle Low German man. A contraction of Old Saxon newan (“none other than”). Compare a similar contraction in Dutch maar (“only”).


man

(in many dialects, including Low Prussian) only; but

awer

and many variations thereof; for which, see those entries


man

(obsolete, uncountable, collective) slaves

is-noun

man n (genitive singular mans, nominative plural mön)

mans (genitive singular)
mön (nominative plural)
man (indefinite nominative singular)
manið (definite nominative singular)
mön (indefinite nominative plural)
mönin (definite nominative plural)
man (accusative indefinite singular)
manið (accusative definite singular)
mön (accusative indefinite plural)
mönin (accusative definite plural)
mani (dative indefinite singular)
maninu (dative definite singular)
mönum (dative indefinite plural)
mönunum (dative definite plural)
mans (genitive indefinite singular)
mansins (definite genitive singular)
mana (genitive indefinite plural)
mananna (definite genitive plural)

From Old Norse man, perhaps from Proto-Germanic *gamaną (with unstressed prefix *ga-).


man

the act of daring someone to do something; provocation, dare

man n (genitive singular mans, no plural)

mans (genitive singular)
man (indefinite nominative singular)
manið (definite nominative singular)
man (accusative indefinite singular)
manið (accusative definite singular)
mani (dative indefinite singular)
maninu (dative definite singular)
mans (genitive indefinite singular)
mansins (definite genitive singular)

From mana (“to dare [someone] [to do something]”).


man

Og Moſes ſegde til Aaron / Tak þier eina Føtu / og legg eirn Gomor fullan af Man þar i / og lꜳt þad vardueitaſt fyrer DROTTNI til ydar ep[t]erkomande Kynkuijſla

1584, “Exodus. Aunnur Bok Moſe”, in Guðbrandur Þorláksson, transl., Biblia, Þad Er Øll Heiloͤg Ritning vtloͤgd a Norrænu, Hólar: Jón Jónsson, chapter 16, verse 33, page 76:

Appears in Guðbrandur Þorláksson’s 1584 Bible translation. Borrowed from German Man (in Luther’s 1534 German Bible), from Hebrew מן (mān, “manna”).


man

Ég man ekki.

first-person singular present indicative of muna; I remember

Hann man hvað gerðist.

third-person singular present indicative of muna; he/she/it remembers


man

Dat no miin se man kyan du widout uman ar uman widout man, kaaz Gad neva mek dem fi du widout dem wan aneda.

2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, 1 Korintiyan 11:11:

So then, I have to insist that in the Lord, neither is woman inferior to man nor is man inferior to woman.


man

man daag, uman daag


man

Auzé la man ciancia.

L ie na lëtra scrita a man.

Dé na man


man

Dúok mán tą̃ knỹgą.


man

(regional, southern dialects) Alternative form of maachen

lb-verb

man (third-person singular present meet, past participle gemat or gemeet, auxiliary verb hunn)

meet (present singular third-person)
gemat (participle past)
gemeet (participle past)
hunn (auxiliary)


man

Dutch: man

Limburgish: man

Zealandic: man

From Old Dutch man, from Proto-West Germanic *mann, from Proto-Germanic *mann-.


man

bleſſid is þe man þat ſuffriþ temptacioun / foꝛ whanne he ſchal be pꝛeued .· he ſchal reſſeyue þe coꝛoun of lijf · which god bihiȝte to men þat louen hym

c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, James 1:12, page 109v, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:

A person who endures temptation is blessed, because when they've been tested, they'll receive the crown of life that God promised to the people who love him.

English: man, -man (see there for further descendants)

Scots: man

Yola: man

Inherited from Old English mann, from Proto-West Germanic *mann, from Proto-Germanic *mann-, from Proto-Indo-European *mon-.


man

Typically singular, indefinite pronoun: one, you (indefinite).

From Old English man, reduced form of mann; see Etymology 1 above.


man

(Late Middle English) Alternative form of mone (“shall”)


man

head

man m (genitive mannes or man, plural manne or man)

mannes (genitive)
man (genitive)
manne (plural)
man (plural)
ein (indefinite nominative singular)
dër (definite nominative singular)
man (nominative noun singular)
die (definite nominative plural)
manne (nominative noun plural)
man (nominative noun plural)
eines (genitive indefinite singular)
dës (definite genitive singular)
mannes (genitive noun singular)
man (genitive noun singular)
dër (definite genitive plural)
manne (genitive noun plural)
man (genitive noun plural)
eime (dative indefinite singular)
dëm (dative definite singular)
manne (dative noun singular)
man (dative noun singular)
dën (dative definite plural)
mannen (dative noun plural)
man (dative noun plural)
einen (accusative indefinite singular)
dën (accusative definite singular)
man (accusative noun singular)
die (accusative definite plural)
manne (accusative noun plural)
man (accusative noun plural)

desc

Alemannic German: ma, mà, Maa, Mann, Mànn, mo, ma'

Swabian: Ma, Mâ, Mô, Mâo, Mâu

Bavarian: mon, mònn, moon, ma'

Cimbrian: man, mann, månn

Mòcheno: mònn

Central Franconian:

Hunsrik: Mann

East Central German:

Silesian East Central German: Moan

German: Mann, man

Luxembourgish: Mann

Transylvanian Saxon: Mouen, Mäun

Rhine Franconian:

Pennsylvania German: Mann

Yiddish: מאַן (man)


man

From Old French main, mein, man, from Latin manus (“hand”).


man

my (first-person singular possessive determiner)

head

man (feminine and neuter min, plural min)

From Old Frisian mīn, from Proto-West Germanic *mīn.


man

mine (first-person singular possessive pronoun)

man (feminine and neuter min, plural (Föhr-Amrum) minen|or|(Mooring) min)

min (feminine neuter)
minen|or| (Mooring) min (Föhr-Amrum plural)

The reduced forms with an apostrophe are enclitic

conjunctions. Dü is deleted altogether in such contexts. At is not enclitic

it can stand in any unstressed position and refers mostly to things. In reflexive use

only full object forms occur.Dual forms wat

hör.Independent possessives are distinguished from attributive ones only with plural referents. The forms üsens

hörens are used optionally when the possessor is a larger community

conjunctions. Dü is deleted altogether in such contexts. Et is not enclitic and can stand in any unstressed position

the full subject form hat is now rarely used. In reflexive use

junk are obsolete. Attributive and independent possessives are not distinguished in Mooring.

only full object forms occur.The dual forms are dated

but not obsolete as in other dialects.Independent possessives are distinguished from attributive ones only with plural referents.


man

From earlier *mandin, which is preserved in the present stem mîn-; akin to Persian ماندن. The form shift from -and- to -a- is after when -and- standardized as the past stem final of transitive verbs.


man

mana (definite singular)
manen (definite singular)
maner (indefinite plural)
manene (definite plural)

From Old Norse mǫn, from Proto-Germanic *manō.


man

mana (definite singular)
maner (indefinite plural)
manene (definite plural)


man

man (nominative singular)
manna (nominative plural)
man (accusative singular)
manna (accusative plural)
mannis (genitive singular)
manno (genitive plural)
manne (dative singular)
mannon (dative plural)

Middle Dutch: man

Dutch: man

Limburgish: man

Zealandic: man

From Proto-West Germanic *mann, from Proto-Germanic *mann-.


man

c. 992, Ælfric, "The First Sunday in September, When Job Is Read"
Man sċeal lǣwedum mannum seċġan be heora andġietes mǣðe, swā þæt hīe ne bēon þurh þā dēopnesse ǣmōde ne þurh þā langsumnesse ǣþrȳtte.

One has to talk to laymen according to how much they understand, so they are not intimidated by the depth of what one is saying or bored by the length.

c. 992, Ælfric, "Dedication of the Church of St. Michael"
Sē hrōf ēac swelċe hæfde mislīċe hēanesse: on sumre stōwe hine man meahte mid hēafde ġerǣċan, on sumre mid handa earfoþlīċe.

The height of the roof was also uneven: you could touch one part of it with the top of your head, and barely reach another part with your hand.

c. 897, Alfred the Great, translation of Pope Gregory's Pastoral Care
Hēr man mæġ ġīet ġesēon heora swaðu, ac wē him ne cunnon æfter spyrian.

Here you can still see their footprints, but we don't know how to follow them.

one, you (indefinite pronoun; construed as a third-person singular)

Ġif dēaþsċyldiġ man sċriftsprǣċe ġierne, ne him man nǣfre ne wierne.

c. 1005, Wulfstan, Laws of Edward and Guthrum:

If someone condemned to death desires confession, it should never be refused to them.

someone, somebody (some unspecified person)

The Dialogues of Solomon and Saturn
Saga mē, hū lange worhte man Noes earce?

Tell me, how long were they making Noe's ark?

late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy
Hine man sċeal lǣdan tō þām lǣċe.

Early 11th century, Wulfstan, "On the Beginning of Creation"
Þā sē Hǣlend ċild wæs, eall hine man fēdde swā man ōðru ċildru fētt. Hē læġ on cradole bewunden, ealswā ōðru ċildru dōþ. Hine man bær oþ hē self gān meahte.

When Jesus was a baby, he was fed just like other babies are fed. He lay wrapped up in a cradle, just like other babies do. He was carried until he could walk by himself.

often used where modern English would use the passive voice

c. 900, translation of Orosius' History Against the Pagans
Man ġeseah swelċe sē heofon burne.

late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History
Man ġeseah swelċe ān fȳren hring norðan cōme.

It looked like a ring of fire was coming from the north.

Middle English: man, me


man

man (nominative singular)
men (nominative plural)
man (accusative singular)
men (accusative plural)
manes (genitive singular)
mana (genitive plural)
men (dative singular)
manum (dative plural)


man

man (nominative singular)
manna (nominative plural)
man (accusative singular)
manna (accusative plural)
mannes (genitive singular)
manno (genitive plural)
manne (dative singular)
mannum (dative plural)
mannu (instrumental singular)

Middle High German: man

Swabian: Ma, Mâ, Mô, Mâo, Mâu

Bavarian: mon, mònn, moon, ma'

Cimbrian: man, mann, månn

Mòcheno: mònn

Central Franconian:

Hunsrik: Mann

East Central German:

Silesian East Central German: Moan

German: Mann, man

Luxembourgish: Mann

Transylvanian Saxon: Mouen, Mäun

Rhine Franconian:

Pennsylvania German: Mann

Yiddish: מאַן (man)


man

Sáttir þínar er ek vil snemma hafa
ok þat gjaforð geta;
eiga vilja heldr en án vera

Quickly will I have your agreement
and win the word of marriage;
I would rather own than be without
that pale maid.

mans (genitive)
mǫn (plural)
man (indefinite nominative singular)
manit (definite nominative singular)
mǫn (indefinite nominative plural)
mǫnin (definite nominative plural)
man (accusative indefinite singular)
manit (accusative definite singular)
mǫn (accusative indefinite plural)
mǫnin (accusative definite plural)
mani (dative indefinite singular)
maninu (dative definite singular)
mǫnum (dative indefinite plural)
mǫnunum (dative definite plural)
mans (genitive indefinite singular)
mansins (definite genitive singular)
mana (genitive indefinite plural)
mananna (definite genitive plural)

non-decl-blank-full

man

Icelandic: man

Probably from Proto-Germanic *gamaną (“fellow human”)


man

head

man f (oblique plural mans, nominative singular man, nominative plural mans)

mans (oblique plural)
man (nominative singular)
mans (nominative plural)

Occitan: man


man

Fue el dia t̃cero al alba dela man. ⁊ vinẏerõ truenos ⁊ relãpagos ⁊ nuf grãt ſobrel mõt.

c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 18r:

It was the early morning of the third day, and there came thunder and flashes of lightning and a great cloud upon the mountain.


man

Borrowed from Middle Low German man. Compare Saterland Frisian man


man

Borrowed from Middle Low German man. Related to German Low German man and Swedish men.


man

Sjooët, n Maiden skäl n Bäiden undfange, n Súun skäl ju uurwinne, un man skäl him dän Nome Immanuel reke, dät hat uursät: God is mäd uus.

2000, Marron C. Fort, transl., Dät Näie Tästamänt un do Psoolme in ju aasterlauwerfräiske Uurtoal fon dät Seelterlound, Fräislound, Butjoarlound, Aastfräislound un do Groninger Umelounde [The New Testament and the Psalms in the East Frisian language, native to Saterland, Friesland, Butjadingen, East Frisia and the Ommelanden of Groningen], →ISBN, Dät Evangelium ätter Matthäus 1:23:

Behold, a virgin shall become pregnant with a child, she will give birth to a son, and they shall give him the name Immanuel, which is translated: God is with us.

From an unstressed variant of Old Frisian mon (“man”). Compare Dutch men and German man.


man

man (+ nominative with the definite article, + dative otherwise, no mutation)

with the definite article (with-nominative)
otherwise (with-dative)


man

Me dijeron que andabas un poco triste / Que te pusiste a beber y con un man por ahí te fuiste

I heard you were feeling down / That you'd been drinking and took off with some guy

(Latin America, colloquial) man, guy, dude


man

A man no ben man taki.


man

A man no ben man taki.

Te yu no man fu tyari akata / yu no mu trobi matuku

1984, “Nioni”, in Telefôn' mi koe mi koenoe, performed by The Exmo Stars and Boogie:

If you aren't able to carry a head pad / you shouldn't bother with a basket


man

En man går på gatan.

män och kvinnor

Ungefär hundra män deltog i loppet.

Around one hundred men took part in the race.

I äldre tider sa man att björnen ägde sju mans styrka men en mans vett.

In older times, they said the bear has the strength of seven men but the sense of one man.

Vi går till caféet med våra män.
We go to the café with our husbands.

Vi var sjuttio man som slet i gruvan.

We were seventy men who toiled in the mine.

a member of a crew, workforce or (military) troop

Jalla, mannen!

(slang, in the definite "mannen") man (usually friendly term of address)

From Old Swedish maþer, mander, from Old Norse maðr, from Proto-Germanic *mann-.


man

För länge, länge sen såg inte världen ut som nu. Man levde inte alls på samma sätt som jag och du. Man hade ständiga problem med sin kommunikation. För att göra sig hörd var man tvungen att ta ton. Man siktade mot mål, men man träffade bredvid, för inget var exakt i en fördatorisk tid. Man sände sina dokument med män i uniform, som färdades på snö och is i hällregn och storm. Man köpte sina tjänster med papper och metall – ett besynnerligt system som fick imperier på fall. Man sa att grunden var solid, men staten kom på glid, för system var instabila i en fördatorisk tid. Tiderna förändras. Andra ska ta vid. Sanningar föråldras. De formas av sin egen tid. Man byggde stora städer där man trängdes med varann – där man omgav sig med dån och larm och stod i rök och damm. Man sökte efter ledare med styrka och förstånd, som skulle föra folket bort från krig och undergång. En roll alltför komplex för en enda individ, så inget blev beständigt i en fördatorisk tid. Tiderna förändras. Andra ska ta vid. Sanningar föråldras. Man formas av sin egen tid. Man måste stiga upp varje vardag klockan fem, för att stå vid en maskin tills det blev kväll och man gick hem. Man levde under hot, på gränsen till panik, så man sökte efter sanningen i stjärnornas mystik. Man talade om fred, men man låg i ständig strid, för man förlitade sig på människan i fördatorisk tid.

1984, Adolphson & Falk (lyrics and music), “I fördatorisk tid [In pre-computer times [Literally, "In pre-computerish/computeric time" – sounds ad hoc in Swedish as well. Could also be translated as "In a pre-computer age/time" or the like.]]”, in Över tid och rum [Across time and space]:

A long, long time ago, the world was different from today [did not look like now]. People [one] did not at all live in the same way as me and you [literally translated]. You [one] had constant problems with your [one's] communication. To make yourself [oneself] heard, you [one] had to speak up [take tone]. You [one] aimed for goals [or targets], but you [one] hit next to them [hit next-to/beside (the goal/target, missing it)], because nothing was exact in a pre-computer time. You [one] sent your [one's] documents with men in uniform, who traveled on snow and ice in pouring rain and storm. You [one] bought your [one's] services with paper and metal – a peculiar [strange] system that brought empires down ["got empires on fall"]. People [one] said that the foundation was solid, but the state started slipping [went [came] on the slide [on slide]], because systems were unstable in a pre-computer time. [The] times change. Others will follow/ensue [shall pick up]. Truths become outdated ["are en-aged"]. They are shaped by their own time. People [one] built large cities where they [one] crowded together [thronged with one another] – where they [one] surrounded themselves [oneself] with roar and racket and stood in smoke and dust. They [one] sought leaders with strength and reason, that would lead [or bring] the people away from war and ruin [or "doom," or "destruction" in the sense of ruin/doom]. A role much too complex for a single individual, so nothing endured [became enduring] in a pre-computer time. [The] times change. Others will follow/ensue [shall pick up]. Truths become outdated ["are en-aged"]. You [one] are shaped by your [one's] own time. You [one] had to get up every weekday at five, to stand at a machine until the evening and then go home [until it became evening and you [one] went home]. You [one] lived under threat, on the verge of panic, so you [one] searched for the truth in the mystery of the stars [in the stars' mystique]. People [one] spoke of peace, but they [one] were [lay] in constant conflict [battle], because you [one] relied on [and put your trust in] man/humans ["the human" – the human species or humans collectively] in pre-computer times.

(indefinite) people in general (in some implied group, often all people); one, you, they, people, etc.

Man har väl varit med förr!
This isn't my first rodeo! [One has väl been with [involved] before!]

(indefinite, often humorous) I (referring to oneself obliquely)

det man inte har i huvudet får man ha i benen


man

From Old Swedish man, from Old Norse mǫn, from Proto-Germanic *manō.


man

Hindi man lang siya tumawag.

Ang bagong panganak man ay may karapatan.

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *man (“particle expressing solidarity, concession, qualification, or emphasis”).


man

...i no gat diwai na gras samting i kamap long graun yet, long wanem, em i no salim ren i kam daun yet. Na i no gat man bilong wokim gaden.

1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 2:5:


man

(international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Mandingo.


man

một man

(obsolete, as a free morpheme) ten thousand; myriad

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 萬 (“ten thousand”, SV: vạn). Doublet of muôn and vạn.

der

SV: <i class="Latn mention" lang="vi">vạn</i>


man

Compare Mán, which is might be a cognate.


man

Man, älogöl atosi, äfugom.

1932, Arie de Jong, Leerboek der Wereldtaal, page 16:

‚Ioseph’: himatan ofa, bi äbinom man ritik, e no ävilom jonetükön ofi len jemodastafäd, ädesinom ad lüvön kläno ofi.

1952, Arie de Jong, Diatek nulik: Gospul ma ‚Matthaeus’. Kapit: I:

Her husband Joseph, being an upright man and wanting to spare her disgrace, decided to divorce her informally.

mans (nominative plural)
man (nominative singular)
mans (nominative plural)
mana (genitive singular)
manas (genitive plural)
mane (dative singular)
manes (dative plural)
mani (accusative singular)
manis (accusative plural)
o man! (singular vocative)
o mans! (plural vocative)
manu (predicative singular)
manus (plural predicative)

Borrowed from the descendants of Proto-West Germanic *mann.


man

From Middle Welsh mann, from Proto-Celtic *mendu (“mark, location”), from Proto-Indo-European *men-dʰh₁u-. Cognate with Old Irish mind (“crown”), and also related to Old Irish mennar (“blemish, stain”); outside of Celtic, cognate with Latin mendum (“fault, blemish”), Hittite [script needed] (mant-, “something harming”).


man

cy-noun

man m (plural mannau or mannoedd, diminutive mannyn or mennyn)

mannau (plural)
mannoedd (plural)
mannyn (diminutive)
mennyn (diminutive)

Possibly from Latin menda (“defect, blemish, mistake”), from Proto-Indo-European *mend- (“physical defect, fault”); if so, then from the same origin as Etymology 1. See Old Irish mennar (“blemish, stain”).


man

Learned borrowing from Hebrew מן (mān, “manna”).


man

Coordinate term: frou

Coordinate term: frou

head

man c (plural manlju or mannen, diminutive mantsje)

manlju (plural)
mannen (plural)
mantsje (diminutive)

From Old Frisian man, from Proto-West Germanic *mann, from Proto-Germanic *mann-.


man

I (first-person singular subject pronoun)


man

Coordinate term: mawen

He at nouth fade t'zey, llean vetch ee man,

1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 13, page 90:

He that knows what to say, mischief fetch the man,

Zoo wough kisth, an wough parthet; earch man took his laave;

1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 6, page 96:

So we kissed and we parted, each man took his leave;

Zimaan Haay is a wicked man,

1867, “CASTEALE CUDDE'S LAMENTATION”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 4, page 104:

From Middle English man, from Old English mann, from Proto-West Germanic *mann.


man

From Middle Dutch man, from Old Dutch man, from Proto-West Germanic *mann, from Proto-Germanic *mann-.