m

See also: Appendix:Variations of "m"

m U+006D, m
LATIN SMALL LETTER M
l
[U+006C]
Basic Latin n
[U+006E]

U+217F, ⅿ
SMALL ROMAN NUMERAL ONE THOUSAND

[U+217E]
Number Forms
[U+2180]
U+FF4D, m
FULLWIDTH LATIN SMALL LETTER M

[U+FF4C]
Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
[U+FF4E]
𝆐 U+1D190, 𝆐
MUSICAL SYMBOL MEZZO
𝆏
[U+1D18F]
Musical Symbols 𝆑
[U+1D191]

Translingual

Etymology 1

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

Letter

m (upper case M)

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

See also

Etymology 2

Various abbreviations.

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Symbol

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 (ma), and Korean jamo (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 3

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

Alternative forms

Numeral

m (lower case roman numeral, upper case M)

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

See also

Other representations of M:


English

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /ɛm/
    • (file)
    • (file)
    • Rhymes: -ɛm
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /m/

Letter

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.
See also

Number

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

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

m

  1. (grammar) Abbreviation of masculine.

Noun

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:
      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

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

See also


Azerbaijani

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /m/

Letter

m lower case (upper case M)

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

See also


Basque

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /eme/, [e̞.me̞]

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

See also


Chinese

Pronunciation


Verb

m

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, colloquial) to steal

Synonyms


Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɛm
  • (letter name): IPA(key): /ɛm/

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

See also

  • Previous letter: l
  • Next letter: n

See also


Egyptian

Etymology 1

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.

Pronunciation

 

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Preposition

  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

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
Alternative forms

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

Derived terms

Etymology 2

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

Particle

 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

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

Verb

  1. imperative of jmj (to not be, to not do): don't
Alternative forms

References

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

Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /mo/
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /m/
  • (file)

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

See also


Estonian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈemː/

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

See also


Etulo

Pronoun

ḿ

  1. I, first-person singular pronoun
    ḿ wēnîI drink water
    ḿ wēnīI drank water

References

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

Faroese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /m/

Letter

m (upper case M)

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

See also


Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈæm/, [ˈæm]
  • IPA(key): /ˈem/, [ˈe̞m] (dated)
  • Audio:(file)

Letter

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

m

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

See also


French

Pronunciation

  • (letter name) IPA(key): /ɛm/
  • (file)

Letter

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

Pronunciation

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

Usage notes

See also


Gothic

Romanization

m

  1. Romanization of 𐌼

Haitian Creole

Etymology

Contraction of mwen, from French moi.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

m

  1. Contraction of mwen.

Hungarian

Etymology 1

Abbreviation of méter.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmeːtɛr]

Noun

m (plural m-ek)

  1. m (the unit of length in the International System of Units)
Declension
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

Pronunciation

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

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

Further reading

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

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • (letter name) IPA(key): /ɛmː/

Letter

m (upper case M)

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

See also


Ido

Pronunciation

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

Letter

m (upper case M)

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

See also


Igbo

Pronunciation

Letter

m (upper case M)

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

Pronunciation

Pronoun

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

  1. (personal) I, me

See also


Indonesian

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /ɛm/
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /m/

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

See also


Italian

Letter

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.

Lashi

Lashi cardinal numbers
 <  4 5 6  > 
    Cardinal : m

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /m/, [m̩˧]

Numeral

m

  1. five

References

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

Latin

Letter

m

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

Latvian

Etymology

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

  • IPA(key): [m]
(file)

Letter

M

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

See also


Livonian

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /m/

Letter

m (upper case M)

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

See also


Malay

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

See also


Maltese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /m/

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

See also


Mandarin

Romanization

m

  1. Nonstandard spelling of .
  2. Nonstandard spelling of ḿ.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of .
  4. Nonstandard spelling of .

Usage notes

  • 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.

Mandinka

Pronoun

m

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

See also


Norwegian

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /emː/, /ɛmː/
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /m/
  • (file)

Letter

m

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

Usage notes

  • 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

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /m/, IPA(key): /ŋ/

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

See also


Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɛm/

Letter

m (upper case M, lower case)

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

See also

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Letter

m (upper case M, lower case b)

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

See also


Romani

Pronunciation

Letter

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.

See also


Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /m/

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

See also


Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

  • (uppercase): M

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /m/

Letter

m (Cyrillic spelling м)

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

Noun

m ? (Cyrillic spelling м)

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

Skolt Sami

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /m/

Letter

m (upper case M)

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

See also


Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (phoneme) /m/
  • IPA(key): (letter name) /ˈeme/ [ˈe.me]

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /me/ [me]
  • Rhymes: -e

Pronoun

m

  1. (text messaging) Abbreviation of me.

Swahili

Verb

m

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

Usage notes

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

See also

Prefix

m

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

Swedish

Preposition

m

  1. w/, with; Abbreviation of med.

See also

Proper noun

m

  1. Moderate Party; Abbreviation of Moderaterna.

Turkish

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

See also


Turkmen

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /m/

Letter

m (upper case M)

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

See also


Xhosa

Pronoun

-m

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

Yoruba

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /m/, IPA(key): /ŋ/
  • (letter name): IPA(key): /mĩ́/

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ŋ̄/

Pronoun

or m

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ŋ́/

Particle

ḿ

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

Zulu

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

See also


ǃKung

Verb

m

  1. eat
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