みな

Japanese

Etymology 1

Alternative spelling
皆

⟨mi₂na⟩ → */mɨna/ → /mina/

From Old Japanese.

Appears in the Nihon Shoki (720 CE).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) みな [mìnáꜜ] (Odaka – [2])
• IPA^(key): [mʲina̠]

Noun

みな • (mina) 

1. everyone, everybody
2. all, everything

Usage notes

Especially for the first sense, usually suffixed with the honorifics さん (-san, polite) or さま (-sama, formal) when addressing a group.

Derived terms

• みんな (minna)
• みなみな (minamina)
• みながみな (mina ga mina)
• 皆(みな)さま (minasama)
• 皆(みな)さん (minasan)
• 皆(みな)掛(が)け (minagake)
• みながら (minagara)
• 皆(みな)熊(くま) (minakuma)
• 皆(みな)紅(ぐれない) (minagurenai)
• 皆(みな)殺(ごろ)し (minagoroshi)
• 皆(みな)水(ずい)晶(しょう) (minazuishō)
• 皆(みな)月(づき) (Minazuki)
• みなながら (mina nagara)
• 皆(みな)の者(もの) (mina no mono)
• 皆(みな)人(ひと) (minahito)
• 皆(みな)腸(わた) (minawata)

Idioms

• 皆(みな)にする (mina ni suru)
• 皆(みな)になす (mina ni nasu)
• 皆(みな)になる (mina ni naru)
• 皆(みな)まで言(い)うな (mina made iu na)

Proverbs

• 地(ち)を易(か)うれば皆(みな)然(しか)り (chi o kaureba mina shikari)

See also

• 全(すべ)て (subete)
• 全(ぜん)部(ぶ) (zenbu)

Etymology 2

Alternative spelling
蜷

From Old Japanese 蜷 (mi₁na), from Proto-Japonic *mina.

Pronunciation

• (Kyoto) みな [míná] (Kōki – [0])>

• Historical evolution of the Kyoto pitch accent

• (the Heian period) LL

※ H for high and flat syllables (◌́), L for low and flat syllables (◌̀), F for high-to-low syllables (◌̂), R for low-to-high syllables (◌̌).
※ References:

Noun

みな • (mina) 

1. [from early 900s] (archaic, possibly obsolete or dialectal) synonym of 川蜷 (kawanina, “melanian snail (Semisulcospira libertina)”)

Etymology 3

Other various kanji spellings.

Proper noun

みな • (Mina) 

1. 美奈, 美娜, 実奈, 実名: a female given name

Old Japanese

Noun

みな (mi₂na)

1. 皆: everybody, everyone