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m

synonyms, antonyms, definitions, examples & translations of m in English

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

(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, the beginning of various kana including ま (ma), and Korean jamo ㅁ (mieum).
(superscript ⟨ᵐ⟩, IPA) light to full [m]-prenasalization, [m]-release or light post-nasalization, [m]-coloring, or a weak, fleeting or epenthetic [m].
metre, the basic unit of length in the International System of Units
mass
month
million [from mid-20th century]
thousand
Synonym: k
- 1798 Letter from William Short 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
(music) mezzo, as in mezzo piano and mezzo forte
(chemistry) Of a tactic diad, having structural units in identical orientation.

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.

Derived terms

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

Abbreviations.

(Stenoscript) Abbreviation of am.
(Stenoscript) Abbreviation of him.
(Stenoscript) Abbreviation of my and mine.
(Stenoscript) Abbreviation of many.
(Stenoscript) the prefix mis-.
(Stenoscript) the prefix im-.

Adjective

(grammar) Abbreviation of masculine.

Noun

m (plural ms)

Abbreviation of meter.
Abbreviation of mile.
Abbreviation of month.
Abbreviation of minute.
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

Translations

Amal

Noun

breast

References

transnewguinea.org, citing D. C. Laycock, Languages of the Lumi Subdistrict (West Sepik District), New Guinea (1968), Oceanic Linguistics, 7 (1): 36-66

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.

Catalan

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈe.mə]
IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈe.me], [ˈem]

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

The thirteenth letter of the Catalan alphabet, called ema, eme, or em and written in the Latin script.

Central Mazahua

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /m/

Letter

m (upper case M)

A letter of the Mazahua alphabet.

Czech

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

The twentieth letter of the Czech alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Dutch

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

Pronoun

(text messaging) Nonstandard form of 'm.

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 Rösslerian 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, pages 86, 115, 179–180, 194–195.
Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (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

Etymology

The Finnish orthography using the Latin script was based on those of Swedish, German and Latin, and was first used in the mid-16th century. No earlier script is known. See the Wikipedia article on Finnish for more information, and m for information on the development of the glyph itself.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈæm/, [ˈæm] (letter name)
IPA^(key): /ˈem/, [ˈe̞m] (letter name, dated)
Rhymes: -æm

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

Noun

Abbreviation of miehet (“gentlemen”) (used to mark toilets and similar installations to be for men only)
Synonyms: miehet, (rare) herrat

Antonyms: n, naiset, (rare) rouvat

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.

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).

Ghomala'

Preposition

Situative Relativizer.
M cù bɛ̌ ― At the bottom of the pot.
to, towards, at, in

References

Erika Eichholzer (editor) et al, Dictionnaire ghomala’ (2002)

Gothic

Romanization

Romanization of 𐌼

Haitian Creole

Etymology

Contraction of mwen, from French moi.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /m/

Pronoun

Contraction of mwen.

Hawaiian

Alternative forms

(letter name) mū

Pronunciation

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

Letter

The ninth letter of the Hawaiian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Hungarian

Etymology 1

Abbreviation of méter (“meter”).

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

Compare with Yoruba n̄

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.

Ingrian

Noun

m (invariable)

Abbreviation of metra.

Irish

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

The twelfth letter of the Irish alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Italian

Letter

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

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

Kankanaey

Etymology

Borrowed from Tagalog m. Letter pronunciation is influenced by English m.

Pronunciation

(letter name) IPA^(key): /ʔem/ [ʔem]
- Rhymes: -em
(phoneme) IPA^(key): /m/ [m]

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

References

Komisyon ng Wikang Filipino (2016) Ortograpiya di Kankanaëy [Kankanaey Orthography]‎^[2] (in Kankanaey and Tagalog), →ISBN, pages 10-11

Kashubian

Etymology

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

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

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^[3], Chiang Mai: Payap University., page 35
Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid‎^[4], 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 m̌.
Nonstandard spelling of m̀.

Usage notes

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

Pronoun

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

Navajo

Letter

m (upper case M)

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

North Frisian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [m]

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

A letter of the North Frisian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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.

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)

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

Polish

Etymology

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

IPA^(key): /ˈɛm/

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.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology 1

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

The eleventh letter of the Scottish Gaelic alphabet, written in the Latin script. It is preceded by l and followed by n. Its traditional name is muin (“vine”).

Etymology 2

Adverb

Abbreviation of sa mhadainn (“in the morning, ante meridiem”); am, a.m.
Antonyms: f, feasgar

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)

Silesian

Etymology

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

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

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.

Slovak

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [m]

Letter

m (upper case M)

The twenty-third letter of the Slovak alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Spanish

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (phoneme) /m/
IPA^(key): (letter name) /ˈeme/ [ˈe.me]
- Rhymes: -eme

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

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

Pronoun

(text messaging) Abbreviation of me.

Swahili

Verb

(dated or literary) positive degree present and gnomic second-person plural of -wa (“ye are, you all are”)

Derived terms

m hali gani (“how are you all?”)

Swedish

Preposition

w/, with; Abbreviation of med.

Proper noun

Moderate Party; Abbreviation of Moderaterna.

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed 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

(Standard Tagalog)
- IPA^(key): /ˈʔem/ [ˈʔɛm] (letter name, Filipino alphabet)
  - Rhymes: -em
- IPA^(key): /ˈma/ [ˈma] (letter name, Abakada alphabet)
  - Rhymes: -a
- IPA^(key): /ˈʔeme/ [ˈʔɛː.mɛ] (letter name, Abecedario)
  - Rhymes: -eme
- IPA^(key): /m/ [m] (phoneme)

Letter

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

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

Letter

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

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

Letter

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

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

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.

Vietnamese

Pronunciation 1

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [məː˨˩]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [məː˦˩]
(Saigon) IPA^(key): [məː˨˩]
Phonetic spelling: mờ

Pronunciation 2

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɛm˧˧ məː˨˩]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɛm˧˧ məː˦˩]
(Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔɛm˧˧ məː˨˩]
Phonetic spelling: em mờ

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French m.

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

The twenty-fourth letter of the Vietnamese alphabet, called mờ or em mờ and written in the Latin script.

Etymology 2

Pronoun

(slang, Internet, text messaging) Abbreviation of mày / mi.

Welsh

Pronunciation

(standard) IPA^(key): /ɛm/
- (informal) IPA^(key): /m/

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

The seventeenth letter of the Welsh alphabet, called èm and written in the Latin script. It is preceded by l and followed by n.

Mutation

m at the beginning of words mutates to f in a soft mutation, but is unchanged by nasal mutation and aspirate mutation, for example with the word merch (“girl, daughter”):

Xhosa

Pronoun

-m

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

Yele

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /m/, /ⁿ/

Letter

m (upper case M)

A letter of the Yele alphabet.

Derived terms

The digraph ⟨mb⟩ transcribes the single consonant /ⁿp/ [mb]
The digraph ⟨md⟩ transcribes the single consonant /ⁿʈ͡p/ [ɳ͡mɖ͡b]
The digraph ⟨mg⟩ transcribes the single consonant /ⁿk͡p/ [ŋ͡mɡ͡b]
The digraph ⟨mt⟩ transcribes the single consonant /ⁿt̪͡p/ [n̪͡md̪͡b]

Palatalized consonants are written ⟨mby, mty, my⟩, labialized consonants as ⟨mbw, mw⟩, and labio-palatalized consonants as ⟨mbyw, myw⟩.

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

See also

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Letter

Derived terms

See also

Number

Etymology 2

Adjective

Noun

Verb

Translations

See also

Amal

Noun

References

Azerbaijani

Pronunciation

Letter

See also

Basque

Pronunciation

Letter

See also

Catalan

Pronunciation

Letter

See also

Central Mazahua

Pronunciation

Letter

See also

Czech

Letter

See also

Dutch

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Letter

See also

Etymology 2

Pronoun

Egyptian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Preposition

Usage notes

Inflection

Alternative forms

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Particle

Usage notes

Alternative forms

Etymology 3

Verb

Alternative forms

See also

References

Esperanto

Pronunciation

Letter

See also

Estonian

Pronunciation