"मैं" meaning in Hindi

See मैं in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Pronoun

IPA: /mɛ̃ː/ [Delhi-Hindi], /məɪ/ [dialectal], [məɪ̯] [dialectal] Audio: LL-Q1568 (hin)-AryamanA-मैं.wav
Etymology: Inherited from Old Hindi मैं (maiṃ), from Sauraseni Apabhramsa मइं (maĩ), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀫𑀏 (mae), from Sanskrit मया (mayā), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *máyaH (the instrumental singular of *aȷ́ʰám (“I”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁móy. Cognate to Punjabi ਮੈਂ (maĩ), Nepali म (ma), Assamese মই (moi), Odia ମୁଁ (mũ) , Sylheti ꠝꠥꠁ (mui), Bengali মুই (mui), Marathi मी (mī), all deriving from oblique forms of the first-person personal pronoun. Etymology templates: {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|hi|inc-ohi|मैं|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Old Hindi मैं (maiṃ), {{inh+|hi|inc-ohi|मैं}} Inherited from Old Hindi मैं (maiṃ), {{inh|hi|inc-sap|मइं|tr=maĩ}} Sauraseni Apabhramsa मइं (maĩ), {{inh|hi|pra-sau|𑀫𑀏}} Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀫𑀏 (mae), {{inh|hi|sa|मया}} Sanskrit मया (mayā), {{inh|hi|iir-pro|*máyaH}} Proto-Indo-Iranian *máyaH, {{m|iir-pro|*aȷ́ʰám||I}} *aȷ́ʰám (“I”), {{inh|hi|ine-pro|*éǵh₂|*h₁móy}} Proto-Indo-European *h₁móy, {{cog|pa|ਮੈਂ}} Punjabi ਮੈਂ (maĩ), {{cog|ne|म}} Nepali म (ma), {{cog|as|মই}} Assamese মই (moi), {{cog|or|ମୁଁ}} Odia ମୁଁ (mũ), {{cog|syl|ꠝꠥꠁ|tr=mui}} Sylheti ꠝꠥꠁ (mui), {{cog|bn|মুই}} Bengali মুই (mui), {{cog|mr|मी}} Marathi मी (mī) Head templates: {{hi-pronoun|g=mf|ur=مَیں}} मैं • (ma͠i) m or f (Urdu spelling مَیں) Inflection templates: {{hi-decl-pronoun|मैं|ma͠i|मुझ|mujh|मैंने|ma͠ine|मेरा|merā|मुझे|mujhe}} Forms: ma͠i [romanization], مَیں [Urdu], no-table-tags [table-tags], मैं [direct], मुझ [indirect], मैंने [ergative], मेरा [genitive], मुझे [dative], मुझको [dative], मुझसे [error-unrecognized-form], मुझमें [inessive], मुझपे [adessive], मुझपर [adessive], मुझतक [terminative], मुझसा [error-unrecognized-form]
  1. I (the first person personal singular pronoun) Wikipedia link: hi:सुभद्र झा Synonyms: हम (english: ham) [colloquial, dialectal]

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for मैं meaning in Hindi (5.6kB)

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      "links": [
        [
          "I",
          "I"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "hi:सुभद्र झा"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/mɛ̃ː/",
      "tags": [
        "Delhi-Hindi"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/məɪ/",
      "tags": [
        "dialectal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[məɪ̯]",
      "tags": [
        "dialectal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1568 (hin)-AryamanA-मैं.wav",
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      "text": "Audio"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "english": "ham",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "dialectal"
      ],
      "word": "हम"
    }
  ],
  "word": "मैं"
}
{
  "called_from": "inflection/735",
  "msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'instrumental/ablative'",
  "path": [
    "मैं"
  ],
  "section": "Hindi",
  "subsection": "pronoun",
  "title": "मैं",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "inflection/735",
  "msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'semblative'",
  "path": [
    "मैं"
  ],
  "section": "Hindi",
  "subsection": "pronoun",
  "title": "मैं",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Hindi dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (210104c and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.