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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+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]

TranslingualEdit

 
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Etymology 1Edit

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

LetterEdit

m (upper case M)

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

See alsoEdit

Etymology 2Edit

Various abbreviations.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(file)

SymbolEdit

 
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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”).
  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 3Edit

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 formsEdit

NumeralEdit

m (lower case roman numeral, upper case M)

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

GalleryEdit

  • Letter styles
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    Uppercase and lowercase versions of M, in normal and italic type

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    Uppercase and lowercase M in Fraktur

See alsoEdit

Other representations of M:

EnglishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

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.
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NumberEdit

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 2Edit

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-.

AdjectiveEdit

m

  1. (grammar) Abbreviation of masculine.

NounEdit

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—

VerbEdit

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, […]
TranslationsEdit
metre — See also translations at metre
masculine — See also translations at masculine
mile — See also translations at mile
milli- — See also translations at milli-
million — See also translations at million

See alsoEdit

AzerbaijaniEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

m lower case (upper case M)

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

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BasqueEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

See alsoEdit

ChineseEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

m

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, colloquial) to steal

DutchEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

See alsoEdit

  • Previous letter: l
  • Next letter: n

See alsoEdit

EgyptianEdit

Etymology 1Edit

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 neuere Komparatistik school.

PronunciationEdit

 

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PrepositionEdit

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 notesEdit

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.

InflectionEdit
Adverbial forms of m  
im
jm
Alternative formsEdit
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 termsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

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

ParticleEdit

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 notesEdit

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 formsEdit
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of m  
mD37
ma
m m

Etymology 3Edit

VerbEdit

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

ReferencesEdit

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

EsperantoEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

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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EstonianEdit

 
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PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

See alsoEdit

EtuloEdit

PronounEdit

ḿ

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

ReferencesEdit

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

FaroeseEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

m (upper case M)

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

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FinnishEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

InterjectionEdit

m

  1. 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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FrenchEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

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.

FulaEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

Usage notesEdit

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GothicEdit

RomanizationEdit

m

  1. Romanization of 𐌼

Haitian CreoleEdit

EtymologyEdit

Contraction of mwen, from French moi.

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

m

  1. Contraction of mwen.

HungarianEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Abbreviation of méter.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

m (plural m-ek)

  1. m (the unit of length in the International System of Units)
DeclensionEdit
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 2Edit

PronunciationEdit

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

LetterEdit

m (lower case, upper case M)

  1. The twenty-first letter of the Hungarian alphabet, called emm and written in the Latin script.
DeclensionEdit
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 alsoEdit

Further readingEdit

  • 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

IcelandicEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • (letter name) IPA(key): /ɛmː/

LetterEdit

m (upper case M)

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

See alsoEdit

IdoEdit

PronunciationEdit

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

LetterEdit

m (upper case M)

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

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IgboEdit

Etymology 1Edit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

m (upper case M)

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

Etymology 2Edit

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

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

  1. (personal) I, me

See alsoEdit

Igbo personal pronouns
dependent independent object/possesive
Singular first m, a/e- ... -m m, mụ 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 - -

IndonesianEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

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ItalianEdit

LetterEdit

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.

LashiEdit

Lashi cardinal numbers
<  4 5 6  >
    Cardinal : m

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

NumeralEdit

m

  1. five

ReferencesEdit

  • 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

LatinEdit

LetterEdit

m

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

LatvianEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

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.

PronunciationEdit

(file)

LetterEdit

 
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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LivonianEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

m (upper case M)

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

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MalayEdit

LetterEdit

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

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MalteseEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

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MandarinEdit

RomanizationEdit

m

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

Usage notesEdit

  • English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

MandinkaEdit

PronounEdit

m

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

See alsoEdit

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

NorwegianEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

m

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

Usage notesEdit

  • 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.

NupeEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

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PolishEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

m (upper case M, lower case)

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

See alsoEdit

Further readingEdit

  • m in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • m in Polish dictionaries at PWN

PortugueseEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

m (upper case M, lower case b)

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

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RomaniEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

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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RomanianEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

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.

See alsoEdit

Serbo-CroatianEdit

Alternative formsEdit

  • (uppercase): M

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

m (Cyrillic spelling м)

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

NounEdit

m ? (Cyrillic spelling м)

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

Skolt SamiEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

m (upper case M)

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

See alsoEdit

SpanishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

Etymology 2Edit

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

m

  1. (text messaging) Abbreviation of me.

SwahiliEdit

VerbEdit

m

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

Usage notesEdit

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

See alsoEdit

PrefixEdit

m

  1. Marks a verb's object as 3rd person singular.
    ninamogopa
    I fear her

SwedishEdit

PrepositionEdit

m

  1. w/, with; Abbreviation of med.

See alsoEdit

Proper nounEdit

m

  1. Moderate Party; Abbreviation of Moderaterna.

TurkishEdit

LetterEdit

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

See alsoEdit

TurkmenEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

m (upper case M)

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

See alsoEdit

XhosaEdit

PronounEdit

-m

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

YorubaEdit

Etymology 1Edit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

m (lower case, upper case M)

  1. The fourteenth letter of the Yoruba alphabet, called mí and written in the Latin script.
See alsoEdit

Etymology 2Edit

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

m̄ or m

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

Etymology 3Edit

PronunciationEdit

ParticleEdit

ḿ

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

ZuluEdit

LetterEdit

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

See alsoEdit

ǃKungEdit

VerbEdit

m

  1. eat
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