mn

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

Translingual

Symbol

mn

1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Mongolian.

English

Etymology 1

Numeral

mn

1. (chiefly British, Commonwealth except Canada, Ireland) Abbreviation of million.

Alternative forms

• mn.
• mln. / mln

Coordinate terms

• bn (billion)
• tn (trillion)

Etymology 2

Verb

mn

1. (Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of mean.

Etymology 3

Adverb

mn (not comparable)

1. (Philippines) Alternative form of MN (“midnight”).

Anagrams

• nm, NM, Nm, /nm, n/m, N.M.

Dutch

Pronoun

mn

1. (text messaging) nonstandard form of m'n

Egyptian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /mɛn/
  • Conventional anglicization: men

Verb

 2-lit.

1. (intransitive) to be(come) established, to be(come) fixed or set
2. (intransitive) to stick, to stay, to remain fixed, to endure (+ m: in (a place), as (a role); + ḥr: on (a seat, throne, foundation, etc.), in (one’s rightful place); + ẖr: with, having)
3. (intransitive, of the heart/mind) to be firm, steadfast, unwavering, stouthearted, especially in battle
4. (intransitive, of the legs or feet) to be firm of step, steadfast
5. (intransitive, Late Egyptian, mathematics) to be(come) left over, to be(come) the remainder or amount remaining

Inflection

Alternative forms

Derived terms

Descendants

• Sahidic Coptic: ⲙⲟⲩⲛ (moun)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /mɛn/
  • Conventional anglicization: men

Noun

 m

1. substitute for an unknown male name; so-and-so, N.N. [since the Pyramid Texts]

Usage notes

Sometimes accompanied by the demonstrative pn (“this”).

Alternative forms

Derived terms

Descendants

• Bohairic Coptic: ⲙⲁⲛ (man)

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /mɛn/
  • Conventional anglicization: men

Verb

 2-lit.

1. (intransitive) to suffer, to be sick
2. (transitive) to suffer from (an ailment)
3. (transitive) to feel pain or have an ailment in (a body part)
4. (transitive) to be troubled about (something)

Inflection

Alternative forms

Derived terms

Noun

 m

1. sick or suffering man [since the 18th Dynasty]

Inflection

References

• “mn (lemma ID 69590)”, “mn (lemma ID 69600)”, “mn (lemma ID 69610)”, “mn (lemma ID 69660)”, and “mn (lemma ID 69670)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 60.6–62.26, 63.11, 64.13–65.2, 66.18–67.5
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 106–107
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 183, 216, 309.

Vietnamese

Noun

mn

1. (slang, Internet, text messaging) initialism of mọi người