"m" meaning in French

See m in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Character

IPA: /ɛm/ Audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-Exilexi-m.wav , LL-Q150 (fra)-Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick-m.wav Forms: M [uppercase]
  1. The thirteenth letter of the French alphabet, written in the Latin script. Tags: letter, lowercase
    Sense id: en-m-fr-character-IPZSyrOs Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 94 6
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: /ɛm/ Audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-Exilexi-m.wav , LL-Q150 (fra)-Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick-m.wav Forms: m m [canonical]
Head templates: {{fr-noun|m|#}} m m (invariable)
  1. (vulgar) abbreviation of merde (“shit”) Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, invariable, vulgar Alternative form of: merde (extra: shit)
    Sense id: en-m-fr-noun-EUDNlREY
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2
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          "english": "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.",
          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "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.",
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