מן

מן

Arabic

Preposition

מן • (min)

1. Judeo-Arabic spelling of مِنْ‎ (min, “from, of”)‎‎
   • Exodus 1:7 in Saadia Gaon's Tafsir (circa 10th century)

     ‏ובנו אסראיל אתׄמרו וסעו וכתׄרו ועטׄמו גׄדא גׄדא ואמתלי דׄלך אלבלד מנהם׃‎‎

     wabanū ʾisrāʾīla ʾaṯmarū wasaʿaw wakaṯurū waʿaẓamū jiddan jiddan wamtalā ḏālika l-baladu minhum.

     And the sons of Israel were fruitful, and strove, and were numerous, and were very, very mighty, and that country was full of them.

Pronoun

מן • (man) ?

1. Judeo-Arabic spelling of مَنْ‎ (man, “who”)‎‎
   • Exodus 1:8 in Saadia Gaon's Tafsir (circa 10th century)

     ‏וקאם מלך גׄדיד עלי מצר מן לם ישאהד יוסף׃‎‎

     waqāma malikun jadīdun ʿalā miṣra man lam yušāhid yūsufa.

     And a new king arose over Egypt who had not witnessed Joseph.

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Aramaic

Etymology 1

Compare Hebrew מִן‎ (min, “from”), Arabic مِن‎ (min, “from”).

Preposition

מִן • (min)

1. from

Descendants

• Middle Persian: 𐭬𐭭‎ (mn /az/)

Conjunction

מִן • (min)

1. since, after
2. because

Etymology 2

Compare Arabic مَن‎ (man, “who”).

Alternative forms

• מַאן‎ (man)

Pronoun

מַן • (man)

1. who (interrogative)

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Hebrew

Etymology 1

Cognate to Aramaic מִן‎ (min), Arabic مِنْ‎ (min).

Preposition

מִן • (min)

1. Alternative form of מִ־‎ (mi-).

Usage notes

• Usually only used preceding the definite article הַ־‎ (ha-) or as a standalone form, and in current usage is restricted to formal contexts. Otherwise מִ־‎ (mi-) is used.

Inflection

• מִן shares its inflected forms with מִ־‎ (mi-).

Inflection table

Non-personal-pronoun-including form				מִ־, מֵ־‎ (mi-, mei-), מִן‎ (min)
Personal-pronoun- including forms	Singular		Plural
	Masculine	Feminine	Masculine	Feminine
First person	מִמֶּנִּי‎ (miméni)		מִמֶּנּוּ‎ (miménu), מאתנו‎ (mei'itánu)
Second person	מִמְּךָ‎ (mim'khá)	מִמֵּךְ‎ (mimékh)	מִכֶּם‎ (mikém), מִמְּכֶם‎ (mim'khém)1	מִכֶּן‎ (mikén), מִמְּכֶן‎ (mim'khén)1
Third person	מִמֶּנּוּ‎ (miménu)2, הֵימֶּנּוּ‎ (heménu)3	מִמֶּנָּה‎ (miména) הֵימֶּנָּה‎ (heména)3	מֵהֶם‎ (meihém)	מֵהֶן‎ (meihén)
Notes	1. The forms ממכם and ממכן are somewhat informal. 2. The pronunciation miméno is colloquial. 3. The forms הימנו and הימנה are Mishnaic.

Further reading

• H4480 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

Etymology 2

Uncertain. Ebers suggested it was borrowed from Egyptian (mnw, “a type of aromatic plant”); other scholars have suggested the Egyptian word was instead borrowed from Semitic, or that hypotheses of such a connection are unsubstantiated.

Noun

מָן • (man) m (no plural forms)

1. manna

References

• Takács, Gábor (2007) Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian, volume 3, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 284–285, →ISBN
• Ebers, Georg (1872) Durch Gosen zum Sinai: Aus dem Wanderbuche und der Bibliothek, pp. 226–227
• Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 71

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Yiddish

Etymology

From Hebrew מָן‎ (man).

Noun

מן • (man) m

1. manna