man

man

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

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• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /mæn/
  • (US, Canada, æ-tensing) IPA^(key): [mɛən], [meən], [mẽə̃n]
• (Jamaica) IPA^(key): [mɑn]
• (New Zealand, parts of South Africa) IPA^(key): [mɛn]
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /meːn/

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• Rhymes: -æn

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.

• (singular): mang (dialectal rendering, suggesting a Spanish accent), mane (dialectal rendering, suggesting an AAVE accent), mans (slang), mon (slang, used in the vocative, in places such as Jamaica and Shropshire in England), mxn (rare, feminist)
• (plural): mans (Multicultural London English, Toronto, nonstandard, proscribed), mens, man, mandem (Multicultural London English),^[1] mens (nonstandard, African-American Vernacular), mxn (rare, feminist), myn (very rare, chiefly humorous)
• (interjection): maaan (elongated)

man (plural men)

1. An adult male human.

   The show is especially popular with middle-aged men.

   • 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]:

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

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

     “ […] 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.”

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:man.
2. (collective) All human males collectively: mankind.
   • 2011, Eileen Gray and the Design of Sapphic Modernity: Staying In, page 109:

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

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

   every man for himself

   • 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]:

     […] a man cannot make him laugh.

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

     Recompence to no man euill for euill.

   • 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:

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

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

     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.

   • 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:

     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.

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

     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?

4. (collective) All humans collectively: mankind, humankind, humanity. (Sometimes capitalized as Man.)
   • 1647, Westminster Shorter Catechism, question 10:

     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.

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

     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.

   • 2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist‎^[2], volume 408, number 8845:

     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.

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

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

6. (anthropology, archaeology, paleontology) A member of the genus Homo, especially of the species Homo sapiens.
   • 1990, The Almanac of Science and Technology, →ISBN, page 68:

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

7. A male person, usually an adult; a (generally adult male) sentient being, whether human, supernatural, elf, alien, etc.
   • c. 1500, “A Gest of Robyn Hode”, in Child Ballads:

     For God is holde a ryghtwys 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]:

     God's a good man.

   • 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):

     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.

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

     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— […]

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

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

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

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

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

     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 […].

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

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

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

      I pronounce that they are man and wife.

    • 1715, Joseph Addison, The Freeholder:

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

11. A male lover; a boyfriend.

    Stay away from my man, Sister!

12. 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.)

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

13. A person, usually male, who has duties or skills associated with a specified 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.

14. A person, usually male, who can fulfill one's requirements with regard to a specified matter.
    • 2007, Thriller: Stories to Keep You Up All Night, →ISBN, page 553:

      "She's the man for the job."

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

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

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

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

15. A male who belongs to a particular group: an employee, a student or alumnus, a representative, etc.
    • 1909, Harper's Weekly, volume 53, page iii:

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

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

      "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.

16. An adult male servant.
17. (historical) A vassal; a subject.

    Like master, like man.

    (old proverb)

    all the king's men

    • c. 1700s, William Blackstone:

      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.

    • 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:

      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.

18. A piece or token used in board games such as backgammon.
    • 1883, Henry Richter, Chess Simplified!, page 4:

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

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

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

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

    Hey, man, how's it goin'?

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

    • 2023 March 26, Phil McNulty, “England 2-0 Ukraine”, in BBC Sport‎^[3]:

      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.

22. A clipping of "in man" or equivalent used in the CGS unit roentgen equivalent man.
    • 1953, Notes, Medical Basic Sciences Course, 1950-1953‎^[4], volume 2, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, page 695:

      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.

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

• The use of "man" (compare Old English: mann, wer, wīf) to mean both "human (of any gender)" and "adult male", which developed after Old English's distinct term for the latter (wer) fell out of use, has been criticized since at least the second half of the twentieth century.^[2] Critics claim that the use of "man", both alone and in compounds, to denote a human or any gender "is now often regarded as sexist or at best old-fashioned",^[2] "flatly discriminatory in that it slights or ignores the membership of women in the human race".^[3] The American Heritage Dictionary wrote that in 2004 75–79% of their usage panel still accepted sentences with generic man, and 86–87% accepted sentences with man-made.^[4] Some style guides recommend against generic "man",^[5] and "although some editors and writers reject or disregard […] objections to man as a generic, many now choose instead to use" human, human being or person instead.^[3]
  • This generic usage is still preserved in certain dialects, pidgins, and creoles of English, as well as fixed expressions and certain religious documents and declarations such as the Nicene Creed (e.g. "...for us men and our salvation..."). Consideration of this has sometimes led to accusations of the critics of the generic man as enforcing linguistic prescriptivism.
• See also the man

• (adult male human): omi (Polari); see more at Thesaurus:man
• (person): human, person, see more at Thesaurus:person
• (board game piece): see Thesaurus:board game piece

• (gender): woman
• (age): boy; male

See also Category:English terms suffixed with -man

• men

See also descendants of -man.

• Tok Pisin: man
• → Cantonese: man
• → Chinook Jargon: man
• → Korean: 맨 (maen)
• → Mandarin: man (mān)
• → Spanish: man
• → Thai: แมน (mɛɛn)
• → Volapük: man

• Old English: mann, wer, wīf.

man (not comparable)

1. Only used in man enough

man

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

   Man, that was a great catch!

   • 2019 August 15, Bob Stanley, “'Groovy, groovy, groovy': listening to Woodstock 50 years on – all 38 discs”, in The Guardian‎^[5]:

     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.

   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:man.

man

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

   man's got some new creps

   • 2011, Top Boy:

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

   • 2013, Jenny Cheshire, “Grammaticalisation in social context: The emergence of a new English pronoun”, in Journal of Sociolinguistics‎^[6], volume 17, number 5, page 609:

     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)

   • 2017 September 22, “Man's Not Hot”‎^[7]performed by Big Shaq [Michael Dapaah]:

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

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

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

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

   man thinks i was born yesterday

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

     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.

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

   man don't care

   • c. 1450, Thomas Chestre, Libeaus Desconus:

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

   • 2013, Jenny Cheshire, “Grammaticalisation in social context: The emergence of a new English pronoun”, in Journal of Sociolinguistics‎^[8], volume 17, number 5, page 609:

     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])

The usage of man as a pronoun originally died out in the 15th century. It has independently reappeared in Multicultural London English. There it is most commonly used as a first person pronoun or as an indefinite personal pronoun, but uses in the second and third person are also attested.^[1]

From Middle English mannen, from Old English mannian, ġemannian (“to man, supply with men, populate, garrison”), from mann (“human being, man”).

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

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

   The ship was manned with a small crew.

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

     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.

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

   Man the machine guns!

   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:

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

3. (reflexive, possibly dated) To brace (oneself), to fortify or steel (oneself) in a manly way. (Compare man up.)
   • 1876, Julian Hawthorne, Saxon Studies:

     he manned himself heroically

4. (transitive, obsolete) To wait on, attend to or escort.
6. (transitive, obsolete, chiefly falconry) To accustom (a raptor or other type of bird) to the presence of people.

• beman
• overman (verb)

Clipping of manual.

man

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

• man page, manpage

• "man" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 188.
•   Man (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
•   Man in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• “New definitions for "man" and "woman"” by Victor Mair in Language Log (2022-11-13)

• MNA, N. Am., 'Nam, mna, AMN, Nam, NAM, 'nam, NMA

man

1. moon

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

• IPA^(key): /man/

• Audio:

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man (plural mans or manne, diminutive mannetjie)

1. man
2. husband

• The normal plural in contemporary Afrikaans is mans. The form manne now usually refers to the members of a male group, such as a group of friends or a team or unit. Compare:

Vroue en mans moet gelyke regte hê. ― Women and men must have equal rights.

Die manne het goed gespeel vandag. ― The men played well today.

 

• Tosk: mën
• Gheg: mand, mandë

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).

• IPA^(key): /man/

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

1. mulberry, mulberry tree

• man i bardhë (“white mulberry”) (Morus alba)
• man i kuq (“red mulberry”) (Morus rubra)
• man i zi (“black mulberry”) (Morus nigra)
• man toke (“wild strawberry”) (Fragaria vesca)

Akin to Spanish mano, from Latin manus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈman/
• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: man

man f (plural mans)

1. hand

man

1. I, first person singular pronoun, as subject

• B. Oshodi, The HTS (High Tone Syllable) in Arigidi: An Introduction, in the Nordic Journal of African Studies 20(4): 263–275 (2011)\
• Boluwaji Oshodi (2011 December) A Reference Grammar of Arigidi, Montem Paperbacks, →ISBN

man

1. water

• R. C. Stevenson, Bagirmi Grammar (1969)

man

1. bird

• Steve Gallagher, Peirce Baehr, Bariai Grammar Sketch (2005)

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *man.

• IPA^(key): /ˈman/ [ˈman̪]

man (Basahan spelling ᜋᜈ᜔)

1. also

   Synonym: pati

man (Basahan spelling ᜋᜈ᜔)

1. used to abate or soften the impacts of negatives and commands

   Dai man iyan ― It's nothing.

man

1. bird

• George W. Grace, Notes on the phonological history of the Austronesian languages of the Sarmi Coast, in Oceanic Linguistics (1971, 10:11-37)

man

1. Contraction of mangue (“I, me”).

• “man” in J. Tineo Rebolledo, A Chipicalli (La Llengua Gitana), Granada: Gómez de la Cruz, 1900, →OCLC, page 60.
• “man” in Francisco Quindalé, Diccionario gitano, Madrid: Oficina Tipográfica del Hospicio.
• “man” in Vocabulario : Caló - Español, Portal del Flamenco y Universidad.

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈman/ [ˈman̪]

man (Badlit spelling ᜋᜈ᜔)

1. gives information; could be omitted

   (Person 1): 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

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

   (Person 1): 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

3. makes a question not abrupt

   Hain man si Pedro?

   Where is Pedro?
   Could you tell me where Pedro is?

• MAN

Borrowed from English man.

man

1. (informal) manly; masculine
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:man.

• gentleman

Borrowed from English man.

man

1. man

• siwash

• klootchman

man

1. male

• klootchman

man

1. Alternative spelling of maan

• mann, månn

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

man m (Tredici Comuni)

1. man
2. husband

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈman]
• Hyphenation: man

man m anim (female equivalent manka)

1. (historical) vassal, feoffee

   Synonyms: vazal, leník

• “man”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “man”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

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

• IPA^(key): /maːˀn/, [mæˀn]

man c (singular definite manen, plural indefinite maner)

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

   Synonym: manke

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

• IPA^(key): /man/, [man]

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

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

   Kan man spise dem?

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

   Man siger, at huset er hjemsøgt.

   They say the house is haunted.

2. I (used modestly instead of the first-person pronoun)
3. you (used derogatorily instead of the second-person pronoun)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /maːˀn/, [ˈmæˀn]

man

1. imperative of mane

 

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:

man

Wikipedia ^nl

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

• IPA^(key): /mɑn/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: man
• Rhymes: -ɑn

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

1. man, human male, either adult or age-irrespective

   De man liep rustig door het park.

   The man walked calmly through the 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.

2. husband, male spouse

   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.

• The normal plural is mannen. The unchanged form man is used after numerals only; it refers to the size of a group rather than a number of individuals. For example: In totaal verloren er 5000 man hun leven in die slag. (“5000 men altogether lost their lives in that battle.”) The plural mans is dated, now mostly occurring in nautical contexts or in dialect.
• Compound words with -man as their last component often take -lieden or -lui in the plural, rather than -mannen. For example: brandweerman (“firefighter”) → brandweerlieden (alongside brandweerlui and brandweermannen).
• Various alternative diminutives exist, including manneke (used especially in Flanders) and the dialectal mannechie / mennechie.

• men

• Afrikaans: man
• Jersey Dutch: mān
• Negerhollands: man
  • → Virgin Islands Creole: mani (dated)
• → Caribbean Javanese: mang

man

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

   Man, is me dat schrikken.

   Man, that was quite some scare.

• tjonge

• nam

From Old Galician-Portuguese mão, from Latin manus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈman/
• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: man

man f (plural mans or más)

1. hand

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎^[9], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

man

1. first/third-person singular present of munna

   I, he, she, it will / may

• tað man vera (so) - this may be (so)
• tað man óivað vera beinari - this will doubtless be more correct

man

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

• (standard): mann

 

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Inherited from Latin manus.

man f (plural mans) (ORB, broad)

1. hand

• main in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• man in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Blend of mon +‎ ma.

• IPA^(key): /mɑ̃/

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man n (singular, plural mes)

1. (gender-neutral, neologism) my

   Man colocataire a fait son coming out non-binaire.

   My roommate came out as non-binary.

• iel
• tan
• san

• “man”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Latin manus.

man m (plural mans)

1. hand

man

1. foot

• Gaikundi-Ontena Organised Phonology Data (2011)

• mão (reintegrationist spelling, lusista)
• mam (reintegrationist spelling)
• mao (central and eastern Galicia)

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

man f (plural mans)

1. hand
2. (figurative) ownership; protection; power; grasp

• Man is a false friend, and does not mean man. The Galician word for man is home.

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “mão”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “mãao”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “man”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “man”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “man”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• IPA^(key): /man/

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• Rhymes: -an
• Homophone: Mann

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

man

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

   Man kann nicht immer kriegen, was man will.

   You can’t always get what you want.

   Manchmal muss man Kompromisse machen.

   Sometimes one must compromise.

   Zumindest sagt man das so...

   At least that’s what they say...

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

     Kann man es fühlen, wenn man schwanger ist?

     Can one feel that one is pregnant?

• Man is used in the nominative case only; for the oblique cases forms of the pronoun einer are used. For example: Man kann nicht immer tun, was einen glücklich macht. — One cannot always do what makes one happy.
• Since man derives from the same source as Mann (“man; male”), its use is considered problematic by some feminists. They have proposed alternating man and the feminine neologism frau, or using the generic neologism mensch. This usage has gained some currency in feminist and left-wing publications, but remains rare otherwise.
• In the sense of “someone,” man is often translated using the passive voice (“I was told that...” rather than “someone told me that...”).