Man

See also: Appendix:Variations of "man"

English

Pronunciation

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Rhymes: -æn

Etymology 1

From man.

Alternative forms

man

Proper noun

Man

The genus Homo.
(poetic) Humankind in general.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, “Eye Witness”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 249:
  The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. […] The second note, the high alarum, not so familiar and always important since it indicates the paramount sin in Man's private calendar, took most of them by surprise although they had been well prepared.

Translations

genus Homo

Afrikaans: mens (af)
Ancient Greek: ἄνθρωπος m (ánthrōpos)
Arabic: إِنْسَان (ar) m (ʔinsān)
Breton: mab-den (br) m
Bulgarian: човек (bg) m (čovek)
Catalan: home (ca) m, humà (ca) m
Central Sierra Miwok: naŋˑa-
Chinese: 人 (zh) (rén)
Czech: člověk (cs) m
Danish: menneske (da) n
Deori: ^{(please verify)} mosi m
Dutch: de mens m
Esperanto: homo (eo)
Estonian: inimene (et)
Finnish: ihminen (fi)
French: Homme (fr) m
Georgian: ადამიანი (ka) (adamiani)
German: Mensch (de) m
Greek: άνθρωπος (el) m (ánthropos)
Guaraní: ava (gn), yvypóra (gn)
Hebrew: אנושות (he) (enoshut)
Hungarian: ember (hu)
Icelandic: menn (is)
Ido: homo (io)
Indonesian: orang (id), manusia (id)
Interlingua: homine (ia), esser human, humano (ia)
Italian: uomo (it) m
Japanese: ヒト (ja) (hito), 人間 (ja) (ningen)
Korean: 사람 (ko) (saram), 인간 (ko) (in'gan)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: mirov (ku)
Latin: homo (la) m
Maltese: bniedem
Navajo: diné
Norwegian:
Bokmål: menneske (no) n
Occitan: òme (oc)
Old English: mann
Persian: مَردُم (fa) (mardom)
Polish: człowiek (pl) m
Portuguese: homem (pt) m, ser humano (pt) m, humano (pt)
Romanian: om (ro) m
Russian: челове́к (ru) m (čelovék)
Scottish Gaelic: mac an duine m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: човек m, човјек m

Roman: čovek (sh) m, čovjek (sh) m
Slovak: človek (sk)
Slovene: človek (sl) m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: cłowjek m
Spanish: hombre (es) m
Swedish: människa (sv)
Tupinambá: abá
Turkish: insan (tr)
West Frisian: minske (fy)
Yiddish: מענטש (mentsh)

Etymology 2

From Old Irish Mana, from Proto-Celtic *moniyos, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to tower, stand out”).

Alternative forms

Mann

Proper noun

Man

The Isle of Man; an island and crown dependency of the United Kingdom in the Irish Sea.
- 1860, William Mackenzie, editor, Legislation by Three of the Thirteen Stanleys, Kings of Man. […], Douglas, Isle of Man: […] [T]he Manx Society, page 191:
  And therefore the Bishop and clergy of Man were totally powerless to resist the alteration of doctrinal articles and rites of worship which Earls Edward and Henry, between 1521 and 1594, following the edicts of Henry VIII., Edward VI., and Elizabeth, introduced into the Isle of Man.