ማን

Amharic

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *mann-. Cognates include Ge'ez መኑ (männu) and Arabic مَنْ (man).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈman/
• Hyphenation: ማን

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Pronoun

ማን • (man)

1. who? whom?

Derived terms

• ማንኛው (mannəññaw)
• ማንኛችን (mannəññaččən)
• ማንኛችሁ (mannəññaččəhu)
• ማንኛቸው (mannəññaččäw)

See also

Amharic interrogative pronouns

	singular		plural
	subject	object	subject	object
animate	ማን (man)	ማንን (mannən), ማነን (mannän) ማን (man)	ማን፡ማን (man man), እነማን (ʾənnäman) ማን (man)	ማንን (mannən), ማነን (mannän) ማን (man)
inanimate	ምን (mən)		ምን፡ምን (mən mən) ምንና፡ምን (mənənna mən) ምኖች (mənočč)

References

• Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “ማን”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN
• Wolf Leslau (2000) Introductory Grammar of Amharic, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 22