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m

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English Online Dictionary. What means m‎? What does m mean?

Translingual

Etymology 1

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

Letter

m (upper case M)

The thirteenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

Etymology 2

Various abbreviations.

Pronunciation

Symbol

metre (U.S. meter), the unit of length in the International System of Units
milli-
(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”).
mass
month or months
(music) mezzo, as in mezzo piano and mezzo forte
million (since mid-20th century)
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—
(music) minor

Etymology 3

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

M, ⅿ, Ⅿ

Numeral

m (lower case roman numeral, upper case M)

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

Synonyms

ⅭⅠↃ

Gallery

Letter styles

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

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

Letter

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

The thirteenth letter of the English alphabet, called em and written in the Latin script.

Number

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

Etymology 2

Adjective

(grammar) Abbreviation of masculine.

Noun

m (plural ms)

Abbreviation of meter.
Abbreviation of mile.
Abbreviation of month.
Abbreviation of minute.
- 1908, Francis Ernest Lloyd, The Physiology of Stomata (Carnegie Institution of Washington), page 83:
  Another instance: 2^h28^m p. m., 10 micra; 3^h08^m p. m., 0 micra; irrigated with water: 3^h09^m p. m., 4 micra.
Abbreviation of million.
Abbreviation of minim (“unit of volume”).
(music) Abbreviation of measure.
(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

(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

Azerbaijani

Pronunciation

(phoneme) IPA^(key): /m/

Letter

m lower case (upper case M)

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

Basque

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /eme/, [e̞.me̞]

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

Chinese

Pronunciation

Verb

(Hong Kong Cantonese, colloquial) to steal

Synonyms

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

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

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɛm/
- Conventional anglicization: em

Preposition

in
(of time) in, for, during
(with certain verbs of motion) into
(with most verbs of motion) from within, out of, from
(of material) made of, consisting of
(of contents, e.g. of a group) consisting of, comprising
by means of
in a state of
in the capacity of, in the role of, as, being
together with, along with
(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

(chiefly Old and Middle Egyptian, with a suffix pronoun) behold, lo, look
Synonym: (Late Egyptian) ptr
(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

Etymology 3

Verb

imperative of jmj (“to not be, to not do”): don't

Alternative forms

References

James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, 115, 179–180, 194–195 page 86, 115, 179–180, 194–195.
Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN
Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 15

Esperanto

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA^(key): /mo/
(phoneme): IPA^(key): /m/

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

Estonian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈemː/

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

Etulo

Pronoun

ḿ

I, first-person singular pronoun
ḿ wēnî — I drink water

ḿ wēnī — I drank water

References

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

Faroese

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /m/

Letter

m (upper case M)

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

Finnish

Pronunciation

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

French

Pronunciation

(letter name) IPA^(key): /ɛm/

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

The thirteenth letter of the French alphabet, written in the Latin script.
- 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

IPA^(key): /m/

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

Usage notes

Common to all varieties of Fula (Fulfulde / Pulaar / Pular).

Gothic

Romanization

Romanization of 𐌼

Haitian Creole

Etymology

Contraction of mwen, from French moi.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /m/

Pronoun

Contraction of mwen.

Hungarian

Etymology 1

Abbreviation of méter.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈmeːtɛr]

Noun

m (plural m-ek)

m (the unit of length in the International System of Units)

Declension

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

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

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

Declension

Icelandic

Pronunciation

(letter name) IPA^(key): /ɛmː/

Letter

m (upper case M)

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

Ido

Pronunciation

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

Letter

m (upper case M)

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

Igbo

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /m/

Letter

m (upper case M)

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

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /m/

Pronoun

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

(personal) I, me

Indonesian

Pronunciation

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

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

Italian

Noun

m m or f (invariable)

see under M

Lashi

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /m/, [m̩˧]

Numeral

five

References

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

Letter

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]

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

Livonian

Pronunciation

(phoneme) IPA^(key): /m/

Letter

m (upper case M)

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

Malay

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

Maltese

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /m/

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

Mandarin

Romanization

Nonstandard spelling of m̄.
Nonstandard spelling of ḿ.
Nonstandard spelling of m̀.

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

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

Norwegian

Pronunciation

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

Letter

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

Polish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɛm/

Letter

m (upper case M, lower case)

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

Portuguese

Pronunciation

Letter

m (upper case M, lower case b)

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

Romani

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /m/

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

Romanian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /m/

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

(uppercase): M

Pronunciation

(phoneme) IPA^(key): /m/

Letter

m (Cyrillic spelling м)

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

Noun

m ? (Cyrillic spelling м)

(grammar) masculine gender
meter (unit of length)

Skolt Sami

Pronunciation

(phoneme) IPA^(key): /m/

Letter

m (upper case M)

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

Spanish

Pronunciation

(phoneme) IPA^(key): /m/

(letter) IPA^(key): /ˈeme/, [ˈe.me]

Pronoun

(text messaging) Abbreviation of me.

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

Swahili

Verb

(uncommon, archaic) you all are; thou all art

Usage notes

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

Prefix

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

Swedish

Preposition

w/, with; Abbreviation of med.

Proper noun

Moderate Party; Abbreviation of Moderaterna.

Turkish

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

Turkmen

Pronunciation

(phoneme) IPA^(key): /m/

Letter

m (upper case M)

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

Xhosa

Pronoun

-m

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

Yoruba

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

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

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ŋ̄/

Pronoun

m̄ or m

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

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ŋ́/

Particle

ḿ

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

m

m

Translingual

Etymology 1

Letter

See also

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Symbol

Etymology 3

Alternative forms

Numeral

Synonyms

Gallery

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English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Letter

See also

Number

Etymology 2

Adjective

Noun

Verb

Translations

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Azerbaijani

Pronunciation

Letter

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Basque

Pronunciation

Letter

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Chinese

Pronunciation

Verb

Synonyms

Dutch

Pronunciation

Letter

See also

See also

Egyptian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Preposition

Usage notes

Inflection

Alternative forms

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Particle

Usage notes

Alternative forms

Etymology 3

Verb

Alternative forms

References

Esperanto

Pronunciation

Letter

See also

Estonian

Pronunciation

Letter

See also

Etulo

Pronoun

References

Faroese

Pronunciation

Letter

See also

Finnish

Pronunciation

Letter

See also

French