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m

See also: Appendix:Variations of "m"

m U+006D, m
LATIN SMALL LETTER M
← l
[U+006C] 		Basic Latin n →
[U+006E]
ᵐ U+1D50, ᵐ
MODIFIER LETTER SMALL M
← ᵏ
[U+1D4F] 		Phonetic Extensions ᵑ →
[U+1D51]
ⅿ U+217F, ⅿ
SMALL ROMAN NUMERAL ONE THOUSAND
← ⅾ
[U+217E] 		Number Forms ↀ →
[U+2180]
ｍ U+FF4D, ｍ
FULLWIDTH LATIN SMALL LETTER M
← ｌ
[U+FF4C] 		Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms ｎ →
[U+FF4E]
𝆐 U+1D190, 𝆐
MUSICAL SYMBOL MEZZO
← 𝆏
[U+1D18F] 		Musical Symbols 𝆑 →
[U+1D191]

Translingual Edit

 
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Etymology 1 Edit

  Modification of capital letter M, from Ancient Greek letter Μ (M, “Mu”).

Letter Edit

m (upper case M)

  1. The thirteenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

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Etymology 2 Edit

Various abbreviations.

Pronunciation Edit

  • IPA(file)

Symbol Edit

 
English Wikipedia has an article on:
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ᵐ U+1D50, ᵐ
MODIFIER LETTER SMALL M
← ᵏ
[U+1D4F] 		Phonetic Extensions ᵑ →
[U+1D51]

m

  1. metre (U.S. meter), the unit of length in the International System of Units
  2. milli-
  3. (phonetics) used in the International Phonetic Alphabet and in several romanization systems of non-Latin scripts to represent the voiced bilabial nasal (/m/), including Cyrillic м (m, “em”), the beginning of various kana including ま (ma), and Korean jamo ㅁ (m, “mieum”).
    (IPA, superscript ⟨ᵐ⟩) [m]-prenasalization, [m]-release or post-nasalization, [m]-coloring or a weak, fleeting or epenthetic [m].
  4. mass
  5. month or months
  6. (music) mezzo, as in mezzo piano and mezzo forte
  7. million (since mid-20th century)
  8. thousand (M being the Roman numeral for 1,000)
    • 1798 Letter from w:William Short (American ambassador) to Thomas Jefferson
      Having made a divorce with politics as I have already mentioned I have only to trouble you on my personal affairs ... —The principle & most pressing is that of the 9. m. dollars—
  9. (music) minor

Etymology 3 Edit

From upper case roman numeral M (1000), an alteration of ⋈, from ∞, an alteration of ↀ, an alteration of Ⓧ, from encircling X (the roman numeral for ten) to indicate the hundredth ten.

Alternative forms Edit

Numeral Edit

m (lower case roman numeral, upper case M)

  1. (Roman numerals) The cardinal number one thousand (1000).
Synonyms Edit

Gallery Edit

  • Letter styles
  •  

    Uppercase and lowercase versions of M, in normal and italic type

  •  

    Uppercase and lowercase M in Fraktur

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Other representations of M:

English Edit

Etymology 1 Edit

Pronunciation Edit

Letter Edit

m (lower case, upper case M, plural ms or m's)

  1. The thirteenth letter of the English alphabet, called em and written in the Latin script.
Derived terms Edit
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Number Edit

m (lower case, upper case M)

  1. The ordinal number thirteenth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called em and written in the Latin script.

Etymology 2 Edit

Abbreviations.

  1. (stenoscript) Abbreviation of am.
  2. (stenoscript) Abbreviation of him.
  3. (stenoscript) Abbreviation of my and mine.
  4. (stenoscript) Abbreviation of many.
  5. (stenoscript) the prefix mis-.
  6. (stenoscript) the prefix im-.

Adjective Edit

m

  1. (grammar) Abbreviation of masculine.

Noun Edit

m (plural ms)

  1. Abbreviation of meter.
  2. Abbreviation of mile.
  3. Abbreviation of month.
  4. Abbreviation of minute.
    • 1908, Francis Ernest Lloyd, The Physiology of Stomata, Carnegie Institution of Washington, page 83:
      Another instance: 2h28m p. m., 10 micra; 3h08m p. m., 0 micra; irrigated with water: 3h09m p. m., 4 micra.
  5. Abbreviation of million.
    • 2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport‎[1]:
      The final started with £85m worth of striking talent on the bench as Carroll was a Liverpool substitute and Chelsea's Fernando Torres missed out on a starting place against his former club.
  6. Abbreviation of minim (“unit of volume”).
  7. (music) Abbreviation of measure.
  8. (obsolete) thousand
    • 1798 Letter from w:William Short (American ambassador) to Thomas Jefferson:
      Having made a divorce with politics as I have already mentioned I have only to trouble you on my personal affairs ... —The principle & most pressing is that of the 9. m. dollars—

Verb Edit

m

  1. (knitting) make
    • 2011, Kristi Porter, Knitting Patterns For Dummies, page 232:
      Row 1 (RS): Kfb, knit to marker A, slip marker A, knit to marker B (there are no sts to knit between markers A and B in Row 1), m1, slip marker B, k1, slip marker B, m1, […]
Translations Edit
milli- — see also milli-

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Azerbaijani Edit

Pronunciation Edit

Letter Edit

m lower case (upper case M)

  1. The nineteenth letter of the Azerbaijani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Basque Edit

Pronunciation Edit

Letter Edit

m (lower case, upper case M)

  1. The thirteenth letter of the Basque alphabet, called eme and written in the Latin script.

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Dutch Edit

Pronunciation Edit

Letter Edit

m (lower case, upper case M)

  1. The thirteenth letter of the Dutch alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also Edit

  • Previous letter: l
  • Next letter: n

See also Edit

Egyptian Edit

Etymology 1 Edit

Often suggested to be cognate to Hebrew בְּ־ (bə-), Arabic بِـ (bi-); however, more recent scholarship disputes this on phonological grounds, as Egyptian m is not held to regularly correspond with Semitic *b by either the traditional school of Egyptian comparison or the Rösslerian school.

Pronunciation Edit

 

Preposition Edit

m
  1. in
  2. (of time) in, for, during
  3. (with certain verbs of motion) into
  4. (with most verbs of motion) from within, out of, from
  5. (of material) made of, consisting of
  6. (of contents, e.g. of a group) consisting of, comprising
  7. by means of
  8. in a state of
  9. in the capacity of, in the role of, as, being
  10. together with, along with
  11. (with following infinitive) forms the periphrastic imperfective of a verb
Usage notes Edit

This preposition is often used with definition 9 to indicate temporary identity, so, for example, z m ꜣhw (“the man is a poor man”) implies that this a temporary, rather than an eternal or generally true, state. Egyptian generally has an expansive view of what counts as a temporary identity compared to English.

Inflection Edit
Adverbial forms of m  
im
jm
Alternative forms Edit
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of m  
im
m

When the object of the preposition is an attached suffix pronoun, the adverbial form jm is used instead.

Derived terms Edit

Etymology 2 Edit

Possibly originally a verb form, an imperative meaning ‘see’.

Particle Edit

mD38

 proclitic

  1. (chiefly Old and Middle Egyptian, with a suffix pronoun) behold, lo, look
    Synonym: (Late Egyptian) ptr
  2. (without a suffix pronoun) whether, although
Usage notes Edit

This particle must introduce a sentence. In Middle Egyptian, it is usually followed by an attached second-person suffix pronoun, such as .k, .ṯ, .ṯnj, or .ṯn, indicating the person being addressed; after this comes the subject, in the form of a nominal subject, a demonstrative pronoun, or a dependent pronoun. In Old Egyptian, a dependent pronoun could be used instead of a suffix pronoun, reflecting the word’s origins as an imperative.

Alternative forms Edit
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of m  
mD37
ma
m m

Etymology 3 Edit

Verb Edit

mD35
  1. imperative of jmj (“to not be, to not do”): don't
Alternative forms Edit
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of m  
m
m

References Edit

  1. ^ Takács, Gábor (2007) Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian, volume 3, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, →ISBN

Esperanto Edit

Pronunciation Edit

Letter Edit

m (lower case, upper case M)

  1. The sixteenth letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called mo and written in the Latin script.

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Estonian Edit

 
Estonian Wikipedia has an article on:
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Pronunciation Edit

Letter Edit

m (lower case, upper case M)

  1. The thirteenth letter of the Estonian alphabet, called emm and written in the Latin script.

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Etulo Edit

Pronoun Edit

ḿ

  1. I, first-person singular pronoun
    ḿ wēnî — I drink water
    ḿ wēnī — I drank water

References Edit

  • Rose-Juliet Anyanwu, Fundamentals of Phonetics, Phonology and Tonology (2008)

Faroese Edit

Pronunciation Edit

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m (upper case M)

  1. The fifteenth letter of the Faroese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Finnish Edit

Etymology Edit

The Finnish orthography using the Latin script was based on Swedish, German and Latin. No earlier script is known. See the Wikipedia article on Finnish for more information, and m for development of the glyph itself.

Pronunciation Edit

Letter Edit

m (lower case, upper case M)

  1. The thirteenth letter of the Finnish alphabet, called äm or em and written in the Latin script.

Interjection Edit

m

  1. Short for miehet (“gentlemen”) (used to mark toilets and similar installations to be for men only)
    Synonyms: miehet, (rare) herrat
    Antonyms: n, naiset, (rare) rouvat

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French Edit

Pronunciation Edit

Letter Edit

m (lower case, upper case M)

  1. The thirteenth letter of the French alphabet, written in the Latin script.
    • 1837, Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche‎fr.Wikisource, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Chapter III:
      L’aube du jour commençait à poindre quand don Quichotte sortit de l’hôtellerie, si content, si glorieux, si plein de ravissement de se voir armé chevalier, que sa joie en faisait tressaillir jusqu’aux sangles de son cheval.
      The dawn of the day was beginning to break when Don Quixote left the inn, so content, so glorious, so full of ravishment of seeing himself armed a knight, that his joy made him tremble all the way to the girths of his horse.

Fula Edit

Pronunciation Edit

Letter Edit

m (lower case, upper case M)

  1. A letter of the Fula alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Usage notes Edit

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Gothic Edit

Romanization Edit

m

  1. Romanization of 𐌼

Haitian Creole Edit

Etymology Edit

Contraction of mwen, from French moi.

Pronunciation Edit

Pronoun Edit

m

  1. Contraction of mwen.

Hungarian Edit

Etymology 1 Edit

Abbreviation of méter (“meter”).

Pronunciation Edit

Noun Edit

m (plural m-ek)

  1. m (the unit of length in the International System of Units)
Declension Edit
Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative m m-ek
accusative m-t m-eket
dative m-nek m-eknek
instrumental m-rel m-ekkel
causal-final m-ért m-ekért
translative m-ré m-ekké
terminative m-ig m-ekig
essive-formal m-ként m-ekként
essive-modal — —
inessive m-ben m-ekben
superessive m-en m-eken
adessive m-nél m-eknél
illative m-be m-ekbe
sublative m-re m-ekre
allative m-hez m-ekhez
elative m-ből m-ekből
delative m-ről m-ekről
ablative m-től m-ektől
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		m-é m-eké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		m-éi m-ekéi
Possessive forms of m
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. m-em m-eim
2nd person sing. m-ed m-eid
3rd person sing. m-e m-ei
1st person plural m-ünk m-eink
2nd person plural m-etek m-eitek
3rd person plural m-ük m-eik

Etymology 2 Edit

Pronunciation Edit

  • (phoneme): IPA(key): [ˈm]
  • (letter name): IPA(key): [ˈɛmː]

Letter Edit

m (lower case, upper case M)

  1. The twenty-first letter of the Hungarian alphabet, called emm and written in the Latin script.
Declension Edit
Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative m m-ek
accusative m-et m-eket
dative m-nek m-eknek
instrumental m-mel m-ekkel
causal-final m-ért m-ekért
translative m-mé m-ekké
terminative m-ig m-ekig
essive-formal m-ként m-ekként
essive-modal — —
inessive m-ben m-ekben
superessive m-en m-eken
adessive m-nél m-eknél
illative m-be m-ekbe
sublative m-re m-ekre
allative m-hez m-ekhez
elative m-ből m-ekből
delative m-ről m-ekről
ablative m-től m-ektől
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		m-é m-eké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		m-éi m-ekéi
Possessive forms of m
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. m-em m-eim
2nd person sing. m-ed m-eid
3rd person sing. m-e m-ei
1st person plural m-ünk m-eink
2nd person plural m-etek m-eitek
3rd person plural m-ük m-eik

See also Edit

Further reading Edit

  • m in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Icelandic Edit

Pronunciation Edit

  • (letter name) IPA(key): /ɛmː/

Letter Edit

m (upper case M)

  1. The sixteenth letter of the Icelandic alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Ido Edit

Pronunciation Edit

  • (context pronunciation) IPA(key): /m/
  • (letter name) IPA(key): /me/

Letter Edit

m (upper case M)

  1. The thirteenth letter of the Ido alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Igbo Edit

Etymology 1 Edit

Pronunciation Edit

Letter Edit

m (upper case M)

  1. The nineteenth letter of the Igbo alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Etymology 2 Edit

Pronunciation Edit

Pronoun Edit

m (dependent/independent form, independent forms m, mụ)

  1. (personal) I, me

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Igbo personal pronouns
dependent independent object/possesive
Singular first m, a/e- ... -m m, mụ
second ị, i ngị, gị gị
third ọ, o ya
Plural first anyị
second ụnụ
third ha, a/e- ... -ha ha
Indefinite a/e - -

Indonesian Edit

Pronunciation Edit

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m (lower case, upper case M)

  1. The thirteenth letter of the Indonesian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Italian Edit

Letter Edit

m f or m (invariable, lower case, upper case M)

  1. The eleventh letter of the Italian alphabet, called emme and written in the Latin script.

Kashubian Edit

Etymology Edit

The Kashubian orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the Kashubian alphabet article on Wikipedia for more, and m for development of the glyph itself.

Letter Edit

m (lower case, upper case M)

  1. The eighteenth letter of the Kashubian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Lashi Edit

Lashi cardinal numbers
 <  4 5 6  > 
    Cardinal : m

Etymology Edit

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *l/b-ŋa. Cognates include Chinese 五 (wǔ) and Burmese ငါး (nga:).

Pronunciation Edit

Numeral Edit

m

  1. five

References Edit

  • Mark Wannemacher (2011) A phonological overview of the Lacid language‎[2], Chiang Mai: Payap University., page 35
  • Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid‎[3], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis), page 45

Latin Edit

Letter Edit

m

  1. The letter of the Latin alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Latvian Edit

 
Latvian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia lv

Etymology Edit

Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.

Pronunciation Edit

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Letter Edit

 
M

m (lower case, upper case M)

  1. The twentieth letter of the Latvian alphabet, called em and written in the Latin script.

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Livonian Edit

Pronunciation Edit

Letter Edit

m (upper case M)

  1. The nineteenth letter of the Livonian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Malay Edit

Letter Edit

m (lower case, upper case M)

  1. The thirteenth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Maltese Edit

Pronunciation Edit

Letter Edit

m (lower case, upper case M)

  1. The seventeenth letter of the Maltese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Mandarin Edit

Romanization Edit

m

  1. Nonstandard spelling of m̄.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of ḿ.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of m̌.
  4. Nonstandard spelling of m̀.

Usage notes Edit

  • Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Mandinka Edit

Pronoun Edit

m

  1. I, me (personal pronoun)
    a m busa — he/she struck me.

See also Edit

Mandinka personal pronouns
singular plural
1st person nte, n, m ntolu, ntelu, n
2nd person ite, i altolu, altelu, al
3rd person ate, a itolu, itelu, y

Norwegian Edit

Pronunciation Edit

Letter Edit

m

  1. The thirteenth letter of the Norwegian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Usage notes Edit

  • Word-final m is written single after short vowels (e.g. komme > kom), unlike all other consonants that can be doubled. This is due to the letter's width.

Nupe Edit

Pronunciation Edit

Letter Edit

m (lower case, upper case M)

  1. The sixteenth letter of the Nupe alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Polish Edit

Etymology Edit

The Polish orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the history of Polish orthography article on Wikipedia for more, and m for development of the glyph itself.

Pronunciation Edit

Letter Edit

m (upper case M, lower case)

  1. The seventeenth letter of the Polish alphabet, called em and written in the Latin script.

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Portuguese Edit

Pronunciation Edit

Letter Edit

m (upper case M, lower case b)

  1. The thirteenth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Romani Edit

Pronunciation Edit

Letter Edit

m (lower case, upper case M)

  1. (International Standard) The seventeenth letter of the Romani alphabet, written in the Latin script.
  2. (Pan-Vlax) The eighteenth letter of the Romani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Romanian Edit

Pronunciation Edit

Letter Edit

m (lower case, upper case M)

  1. The sixteenth letter of the Romanian alphabet, called em, me, or mî and written in the Latin script.

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Serbo-Croatian Edit

Alternative forms Edit

  • (uppercase): M

Pronunciation Edit

Letter Edit

m (Cyrillic spelling м)

  1. The 18th letter of the Serbo-Croatian Latin alphabet, preceded by lj and followed by n.

Noun Edit

m ? (Cyrillic spelling м)

  1. (grammar) masculine gender
  2. meter (unit of length)

Silesian Edit

Etymology Edit

The Silesian orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the Silesian language article on Wikipedia for more, and m for development of the glyph itself.

Letter Edit

m (lower case, upper case M)

  1. The sixteenth letter of the Silesian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Skolt Sami Edit

Pronunciation Edit

Letter Edit

m (upper case M)

  1. The twenty-first letter of the Skolt Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Spanish Edit

Etymology 1 Edit

Pronunciation Edit

Letter Edit

m (lower case, upper case M)

  1. The thirteenth letter of the Spanish alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Etymology 2 Edit

Pronunciation Edit

Pronoun Edit

m

  1. (text messaging) Abbreviation of me.

Swahili Edit

Verb Edit

m

  1. (uncommon, archaic) you all are; thou all art
    m hali gani? ― how are you all doing?

Usage notes Edit

This term is archaic except in the common greeting m hali gani. Along with u and ni it is not conjugated.

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Swedish Edit

Preposition Edit

m

  1. w/, with; Abbreviation of med.

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Proper noun Edit

m

  1. Moderate Party; Abbreviation of Moderaterna.

Tagalog Edit

Etymology Edit

From Spanish m. Each pronunciation has a different source:

  • Filipino alphabet pronunciation is influenced by English m.
  • Abakada alphabet pronunciation is influenced by Baybayin character ᜋ (ma).
  • Abecedario pronunciation is from Spanish m.

Pronunciation Edit

  • Hyphenation: m
  • (letter name, Filipino alphabet): IPA(key): /ʔem/, [ʔɛm]
  • (letter name, Abakada alphabet): IPA(key): /ma/, [mɐ]
  • (letter name, Abecedario): IPA(key): /ˈʔeme/, [ˈʔɛ.mɛ]
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /m/, [m]
  • Rhymes: -em, -a, -eme

Letter Edit

m (lower case, upper case M, Baybayin spelling ᜁᜋ᜔)

  1. The thirteenth letter of the Tagalog alphabet (Filipino alphabet), called em and written in the Latin script.

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Letter Edit

m (lower case, upper case M, Baybayin spelling ᜋ)

  1. The tenth letter of the Tagalog alphabet (Abakada alphabet), called ma and written in the Latin script.

Letter Edit

m (lower case, upper case M, Baybayin spelling ᜁᜋᜒ)

  1. (historical) The fifteenth letter of the Tagalog alphabet (Abecedario), called eme and written in the Latin script.

Further reading Edit

Turkish Edit

Letter Edit

m (lower case, upper case M)

  1. The sixteenth letter of the Turkish alphabet, called me and written in the Latin script.

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Turkmen Edit

Pronunciation Edit

Letter Edit

m (upper case M)

  1. The fifteenth letter of the Turkmen alphabet, called em and written in the Latin script.

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Xhosa Edit

Pronoun Edit

-m

  1. Combining stem of mna used with possessive concords.
  2. Combining stem of mna.

Yoruba Edit

Etymology 1 Edit

Pronunciation Edit

Letter Edit

m (lower case, upper case M)

  1. The fourteenth letter of the Yoruba alphabet, called mí and written in the Latin script.
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Etymology 2 Edit

Pronunciation Edit

Pronoun Edit

m̄ or m

  1. Standard spelling of n̄ (“I”) (used before bá (“conditional marker”))

Etymology 3 Edit

Pronunciation Edit

Particle Edit

ḿ

  1. Standard spelling of ń (“imperfect aspect marker”) (used before verbs that start with a /b/ sound)

Zulu Edit

Letter Edit

m (lower case, upper case M)

  1. The thirteenth letter of the Zulu alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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ǃKung Edit

Verb Edit

m

  1. eat
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