man

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from , from. .

Noun

 * 1) An adult male human.
 * 2)  All human males collectively: mankind.
 * 3) A human, a person regardless of gender or sex, usually an adult.
 * 4) * 1991 edition (original: 1953), Darell Huff, [//archive.org/details/HowToLieWithStatistics How to Lie with Statistics], pages 19–20:
 * Similarly, the next time you learn from your reading that the average man (you hear a good deal about him these days, most of it faintly improbable) brushes his teeth 1.02 times a day&mdash;a figure I have just made up, but it may be as good as anyone else's – ask yourself a question. How can anyone have found out such a thing? Is a woman who has read in countless advertisements that non-brushers are social offenders going to confess to a stranger that she does not brush her teeth regularly?
 * 1)  All humans collectively: mankind, humankind, humanity.
 * 2) * 1647, Westminster Shorter Catechism, question 10:
 * How did God create man?
 * God created man male and female, after his own image, in knowledge, righteousness, and holiness, with dominion over the creatures.
 * 1)   A member of the genus Homo, especially of the species Homo sapiens.
 * 2) A male person, usually an adult; a (generally adult male) sentient being, whether human, supernatural, elf, alien, etc.
 * 3) An adult male who has, to an eminent degree, qualities considered masculine, such as strength, integrity, and devotion to family; a mensch.
 * 4)  Manliness; the quality or state of being manly.
 * 5) A husband.
 * 6) A male lover; a boyfriend.
 * 7) A male enthusiast or devotee; a male who is very fond of or devoted to a specified kind of thing.
 * 8) A person, usually male, who has duties or skills associated with a specified thing.
 * 9) A person, usually male, who can fulfill one's requirements with regard to a specified matter.
 * 10) A male who belongs to a particular group: an employee, a student or alumnus, a representative, etc.
 * 11) An adult male servant.
 * 12)  A vassal; a subject.
 * (old proverb)
 * 1) * c. 1700s, William Blackstone:
 * The vassal, or tenant, kneeling, ungirt, uncovered, and holding up his hands between those of his lord, professed that he did become his man from that day forth, of life, limb, and earthly honour.
 * 1) A piece or token used in board games such as backgammon.
 * 2)  A player on whom another is playing, with the intent of limiting their attacking impact.
 * 3) * 2018 Dinny Navaratnam, Andrews will learn from experience: Fagan Brisbane Lions, 30 July 2018. Accessed 6 August 2018.
 * "It was a brutal return to football for Brisbane Lions defender Harris Andrews as his man Tom Hawkins booted seven goals but Lions Coach Chris Fagan said the team's defensive faults, rather than the backman's, allowed the big Cat to dominate."
 * 1) A clipping of "in man" or equivalent used in the CGS unit roentgen equivalent man.
 * 1) An adult male who has, to an eminent degree, qualities considered masculine, such as strength, integrity, and devotion to family; a mensch.
 * 2)  Manliness; the quality or state of being manly.
 * 3) A husband.
 * 4) A male lover; a boyfriend.
 * 5) A male enthusiast or devotee; a male who is very fond of or devoted to a specified kind of thing.
 * 6) A person, usually male, who has duties or skills associated with a specified thing.
 * 7) A person, usually male, who can fulfill one's requirements with regard to a specified matter.
 * 8) A male who belongs to a particular group: an employee, a student or alumnus, a representative, etc.
 * 9) An adult male servant.
 * 10)  A vassal; a subject.
 * (old proverb)
 * 1) * c. 1700s, William Blackstone:
 * The vassal, or tenant, kneeling, ungirt, uncovered, and holding up his hands between those of his lord, professed that he did become his man from that day forth, of life, limb, and earthly honour.
 * 1) A piece or token used in board games such as backgammon.
 * 2)  A player on whom another is playing, with the intent of limiting their attacking impact.
 * 3) * 2018 Dinny Navaratnam, Andrews will learn from experience: Fagan Brisbane Lions, 30 July 2018. Accessed 6 August 2018.
 * "It was a brutal return to football for Brisbane Lions defender Harris Andrews as his man Tom Hawkins booted seven goals but Lions Coach Chris Fagan said the team's defensive faults, rather than the backman's, allowed the big Cat to dominate."
 * 1) A clipping of "in man" or equivalent used in the CGS unit roentgen equivalent man.
 * 1) A male who belongs to a particular group: an employee, a student or alumnus, a representative, etc.
 * 2) An adult male servant.
 * 3)  A vassal; a subject.
 * (old proverb)
 * 1) * c. 1700s, William Blackstone:
 * The vassal, or tenant, kneeling, ungirt, uncovered, and holding up his hands between those of his lord, professed that he did become his man from that day forth, of life, limb, and earthly honour.
 * 1) A piece or token used in board games such as backgammon.
 * 2)  A player on whom another is playing, with the intent of limiting their attacking impact.
 * 3) * 2018 Dinny Navaratnam, Andrews will learn from experience: Fagan Brisbane Lions, 30 July 2018. Accessed 6 August 2018.
 * "It was a brutal return to football for Brisbane Lions defender Harris Andrews as his man Tom Hawkins booted seven goals but Lions Coach Chris Fagan said the team's defensive faults, rather than the backman's, allowed the big Cat to dominate."
 * 1) A clipping of "in man" or equivalent used in the CGS unit roentgen equivalent man.
 * 1) A piece or token used in board games such as backgammon.
 * 2)  A player on whom another is playing, with the intent of limiting their attacking impact.
 * 3) * 2018 Dinny Navaratnam, Andrews will learn from experience: Fagan Brisbane Lions, 30 July 2018. Accessed 6 August 2018.
 * "It was a brutal return to football for Brisbane Lions defender Harris Andrews as his man Tom Hawkins booted seven goals but Lions Coach Chris Fagan said the team's defensive faults, rather than the backman's, allowed the big Cat to dominate."
 * 1) A clipping of "in man" or equivalent used in the CGS unit roentgen equivalent man.
 * 1)  A player on whom another is playing, with the intent of limiting their attacking impact.
 * 2) * 2018 Dinny Navaratnam, Andrews will learn from experience: Fagan Brisbane Lions, 30 July 2018. Accessed 6 August 2018.
 * "It was a brutal return to football for Brisbane Lions defender Harris Andrews as his man Tom Hawkins booted seven goals but Lions Coach Chris Fagan said the team's defensive faults, rather than the backman's, allowed the big Cat to dominate."
 * 1) A clipping of "in man" or equivalent used in the CGS unit roentgen equivalent man.
 * "It was a brutal return to football for Brisbane Lions defender Harris Andrews as his man Tom Hawkins booted seven goals but Lions Coach Chris Fagan said the team's defensive faults, rather than the backman's, allowed the big Cat to dominate."
 * 1) A clipping of "in man" or equivalent used in the CGS unit roentgen equivalent man.
 * 1) A clipping of "in man" or equivalent used in the CGS unit roentgen equivalent man.

Usage notes

 * The use of "man" (compare Old English:, , wīf) to mean both "human (of any gender)" and "adult male", which developed after Old English's distinct term for the latter fell out of use, has been criticized since at least the second half of the twentieth century. Critics claim that the use of "man", both alone and in compounds, to denote a human or any gender "is now often regarded as sexist or at best old-fashioned", "flatly discriminatory in that it slights or ignores the membership of women in the human race". The American Heritage Dictionary wrote that in 2004 75–79% of their usage panel still accepted sentences with generic man, and 86–87% accepted sentences with . Some style guides recommend against generic "man", and "although some editors and writers reject or disregard  objections to man as a generic, many now choose instead to use" ,  or  instead.
 * This generic usage is still preserved in certain dialects, pidgins, and creoles of English, as well as fixed expressions and certain religious documents and declarations such as the Nicene Creed (e.g. "...for us men and our salvation..."). Consideration of this has sometimes led to accusations of the critics of the generic man as enforcing linguistic prescriptivism.
 * See also 

Synonyms

 * ; see more at Thesaurus:man
 * ,, see more at Thesaurus:person
 * see Thesaurus:board game piece

Derived terms
See also Category:English terms suffixed with -man

Descendants
See also descendants of -man.

Pronoun

 * : I, we;.
 * 1)  You;.
 * 2)  Any person,
 * 1)  You;.
 * 2)  Any person,
 * 1)  You;.
 * 2)  Any person,
 * 1)  Any person,
 * 1)  Any person,
 * 1)  Any person,

Usage notes
The usage of man as a pronoun originally died out in the 15th century. It has independently reappeared in Multicultural London English. There it is most commonly used as a first person pronoun or as an indefinite personal pronoun, but uses in the second and third person are also attested.

Etymology 2
From, from , , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  To supply (something) with staff or crew (of either sex).
 * 2)  To take up position in order to operate (something).
 * 3)  To brace (oneself), to fortify or steel (oneself) in a manly way.
 * 4)  To wait on, attend to or escort.
 * 5)  To accustom (a raptor or other type of bird) to the presence of people.
 * 1)  To brace (oneself), to fortify or steel (oneself) in a manly way.
 * 2)  To wait on, attend to or escort.
 * 3)  To accustom (a raptor or other type of bird) to the presence of people.
 * 1)  To wait on, attend to or escort.
 * 2)  To accustom (a raptor or other type of bird) to the presence of people.

Etymology 3
.

Proper noun

 * 1)  A command used to display help pages in Unix and Unix-like operating systems.

Noun

 * 1) moon

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) man
 * 2) husband

Usage notes

 * The normal plural in contemporary Afrikaans is . The form now usually refers to the members of a male group, such as a group of friends or a team or unit. Compare:

Alternative forms

 * Tosk:
 * Gheg: ,

Etymology
Syncopated form of Gheg, from. Compare 🇨🇬, said by Beekes to be a Mediterranean wanderwort, and (Dacian loan).

Noun

 * 1) mulberry, mulberry tree

Etymology
Akin to 🇨🇬, from.

Noun

 * 1) hand

Pronoun

 * 1) I,

Noun

 * 1) water

Noun

 * 1) bird

Etymology
.

Adverb

 * 1) also

Noun

 * 1) bird

Etymology
. Compare 🇨🇬.

Etymology
.

Adjective

 * 1)  manly; masculine

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) man

Adjective

 * 1) male

Etymology
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) man
 * 2) husband

Etymology
From, from and.

Noun

 * 1)  vassal, feoffee

Etymology 1
From, from.

Noun

 * 1)  mane

Etymology 2
The same word as the noun. .

Pronoun

 * 1) you, one, they, people
 * 2) I
 * 3) you

Etymology
From, from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) man, human male, either adult or age-irrespective
 * 2) husband, male spouse
 * 1) husband, male spouse
 * 1) husband, male spouse
 * 1) husband, male spouse

Usage notes

 * The normal plural is mannen. The unchanged form man is used after numerals only; it refers to the size of a group rather than a number of individuals. For example: In totaal verloren er 5000 man hun leven in die slag. (“5000 men altogether lost their lives in that battle.”) The plural mans is dated, now mostly occurring in nautical contexts or in dialect.
 * Compound words with -man as their last component often take - or - in the plural, rather than -mannen. For example: →  (alongside  and ).
 * Various alternative diminutives exist, including (used especially in Flanders) and the dialectal.

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) hand

Verb

 * I, he, she, it will / may
 * I, he, she, it will / may

Derived terms

 * (so) - this may be (so)
 * man  beinari - this will doubtless be more correct

Pronoun

 * 1)  one, they indefinite third-person singular pronoun

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) hand

Etymology
.

Determiner

 * 1)  my

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) hand

Noun

 * 1) foot

Etymology
From, from. Cognate with 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) hand
 * 2)  ownership; protection; power; grasp

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from.

Pronoun

 * 1) one, you indefinite pronoun; construed as a third-person singular
 * 2) they, people people in general
 * 3) someone, somebody some unspecified person
 * 4) they some unspecified group of people
 * 1) they, people people in general
 * 2) someone, somebody some unspecified person
 * 3) they some unspecified group of people
 * 1) they some unspecified group of people

Usage notes

 * Man is used in the nominative case only; for the oblique cases forms of the pronoun are used. For example: Man kann nicht immer tun, was einen glücklich macht. — One cannot always do what makes one happy.
 * Since man derives from the same source as, its use is considered problematic by some feminists. They have proposed alternating man and the feminine neologism , or using the generic neologism . This usage has gained some currency in feminist and left-wing publications, but remains rare otherwise.
 * In the sense of “someone,” man is often translated using the passive voice (“I was told that...” rather than “someone told me that...”).

Etymology 2
From. A contraction of. Compare a similar contraction in 🇨🇬.

Adverb

 * 1)  just; only

Etymology
From. A contraction of. Compare a similar contraction in 🇨🇬.

Conjunction

 * 1)  only; but

Synonyms

 * avers, awer (and many variations thereof; for which, see those entries)
 * bloots

Etymology 1
From, perhaps from (with unstressed prefix ).

Noun

 * 1)  slaves
 * 2)  a female slave
 * 3)  maiden

Etymology 2
From.

Noun

 * 1) the act of daring someone to do something; provocation, dare

Etymology 3
Appears in Guðbrandur Þorláksson’s 1584 Bible translation. Borrowed from (in Luther’s 1534 German Bible), from.

Noun

 * 1)  manna

Verb

 * 1) ; I remember
 * 2) ; he/she/it remembers
 * 1) ; he/she/it remembers

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) hand

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) man (adult male human)

Adjective

 * 1) male

Etymology
From.

Adverb

 * 1) although; even if; even though
 * 2) also; too
 * 3) only; even
 * 1) only; even
 * 1) only; even

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  hand

Pronoun

 * 1) to me;

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) hand

Etymology
From.

Pronunciation

 * (Western)
 * (Eastern)

Noun

 * 1) hand

Etymology
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) human
 * 2) person
 * 3) man, male
 * 4) husband
 * 5) subordinate

Derived terms
- general:

- persons:

Etymology 1
, from, from , from.

Noun

 * 1)  male human
 * 2) human, person
 * 1) human, person

Etymology 2
From, reduced form of ; see Etymology 1 above.

Pronoun

 * 1)   one, you.

Pronoun

 * 1)  you

Etymology 1
From, , , from.

Noun

 * 1)  hand

Adjective

 * 1) my (belonging to me)

Etymology
From, from.

Pronoun

 * 1)  my

Verb

 * 1) to stay
 * 2) to remain

Pronoun

 * 1) you
 * 2) one
 * 3) they
 * 4) people

Etymology 2
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) a mane

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) mane

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) hand

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) human, person
 * 2) man, male

Etymology 1
From.

Pronoun

 * 1) one, you indefinite pronoun; construed as a third-person singular
 * 2) * c. 992, Ælfric, "The First Sunday in September, When Job Is Read"
 * "ang"

- Man sċeal lǣwedum mannum seċġan be heora andġietes mǣðe, swā þæt hīe ne bēon þurh þā dēopnesse ǣmōde ne þurh þā langsumnesse ǣþrȳtte.


 * 1) * c. 992, Ælfric, "Dedication of the Church of St. Michael"
 * "ang"

- Sē hrōf ēac swelċe hæfde mislīċe hēanesse: on sumre stōwe hine man meahte mid hēafde ġerǣċan, on sumre mid handa earfoþlīċe.


 * 1) * c. 897,, translation of Pope Gregory's 
 * "ang"

- Hēr man mæġ ġīet ġesēon heora swaðu, ac wē him ne cunnon æfter spyrian.


 * 1) they, people people in general
 * 2) someone, somebody some unspecified person
 * 3) they some unspecified group of people
 * 4) * The Dialogues of Solomon and Saturn
 * "ang"
 * "ang"

- Saga mē, hū lange worhte man Noes earce?


 * 1) often used where modern English would use the passive voice
 * 2) * late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' 
 * "ang"

- Hine man sċeal lǣdan tō þām lǣċe.


 * 1) * Early 11th century, Wulfstan, "On the Beginning of Creation"
 * "ang"

- Þā sē Hǣlend ċild wæs, eall hine man fēdde swā man ōðru ċildru fētt. Hē læġ on cradole bewunden, ealswā ōðru ċildru dōþ. Hine man bær oþ hē self gān meahte.


 * 1) it
 * 2) * c. 900, translation of Orosius' History Against the Pagans
 * "ang"

- Man ġeseah swelċe sē heofon burne.


 * 1) * late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History
 * "ang"

- Man ġeseah swelċe ān fȳren hring norðan cōme.



Etymology 2
See.

Etymology 3
From.

Noun

 * 1) crime, sin, wickedness

Derived terms

 * mānswerian

Etymology
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) man

Etymology
Probably from

Noun

 * 1) household, house-folk, bondslaves
 * 2) bondwoman, female slave
 * 3) woman, maid
 * 4) * 900-1100, The, verse 7:
 * "non"

- Sáttir þínar er ek vil snemma hafa ok þat gjaforð geta; eiga vilja heldr en án vera þat it mjallhvíta man.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) hand (anatomy)

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) morning

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) hand

Etymology
. Compare 🇨🇬

Conjunction

 * 1) but

Adverb

 * 1) also

Etymology 1
Borrowed from. Related to 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Conjunction

 * 1) but

Adverb

 * 1) but, just

Etymology 2
From an unstressed variant of. Compare 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Pronoun

 * 1) one, they

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * , guy, dude

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) man, male human

Verb

 * 1) to be able to

Etymology 1
From, , from , from.

Noun

 * 1)  adult male human
 * 2) husband
 * 3) a member of a crew, workforce or (military) troop
 * 4)   (usually friendly term of address)
 * 1) husband
 * 2) a member of a crew, workforce or (military) troop
 * 3)   (usually friendly term of address)
 * 1)   (usually friendly term of address)
 * 1)   (usually friendly term of address)

Usage notes
The unchanged plural man is sometimes used after numerals. It means "men" as a measure for size or strength of a group rather than individuals:
 * Military or police personnel, team members, demonstrators and the like are often counted using this unchanged plural. The same goes with German and Dutch where Mann and man can have an unchanged plural form in this particular case.
 * Military or police personnel, team members, demonstrators and the like are often counted using this unchanged plural. The same goes with German and Dutch where Mann and man can have an unchanged plural form in this particular case.

Not used in other contexts, where it could be confused with a man in general.

Pronoun

 * 1)   people in general; one, you, they, people, etc.
 * 2)  I (referring to oneself obliquely)
 * 1)  I (referring to oneself obliquely)

Usage notes
Man does not sound formal the way English might when used instead of. Man is usually the only option in cases where either or  might be used in English, as Swedish  and  read more like "you, specifically." See the quotations for above for various examples of how man might be translated while preserving tone.

See the usage notes for and  for two other examples of words that have a direct translation that is often unidiomatic or a poor match for tone.

Etymology 2
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) mane of a horse or lion

Etymology
.

Adverb

 * 1) even
 * 2) although; even if; even though
 * 3) even; also; too
 * 1) even; also; too
 * 1) even; also; too

Usage notes

 * The word cannot be at the start of a sentence.

Noun

 * 1) bird

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) man adult male human

Adjective

 * 1) male

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) husband
 * 2) a married man
 * 3) any man

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) hand

Etymology 1
. Also compare.

Adjective

 * 1)  dishonest; false; untruthful

Etymology 2
.

Noun

 * 1)  a savage; barbarian

Etymology 3
..

Numeral

 * 1)  ten thousand; myriad

Etymology
Borrowed from the descendants of.

Noun

 * 1) man adult male human

Derived terms

 * dolafulaman
 * lüodaman
 * manadigöf
 * manafied
 * manageilot
 * manageilotik
 * manajit
 * manaklot
 * manaklotem
 * manalien (tribütabima)
 * manalunot
 * manamod
 * manamodo
 * mananam
 * mananäm
 * manapenät
 * manapörträt
 * mandragoramanil
 * manef
 * manik
 * manil
 * manisasen
 * man maleditilik
 * manüp
 * man vönädaleguda
 * miligaman
 * pödaman
 * pösod manik
 * visoman
 * vöd manik

Etymology 1
From, from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, and also related to 🇨🇬; outside of Celtic, cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) place; location

Etymology 2
Possibly from, from ; if so, then from the same origin as Etymology 1. See.

Noun

 * 1) speck; blemish
 * 2) stain
 * 3) distinguishing mark
 * 4) birthmark; mole
 * 5) pimple; spot
 * 6)  mascle

Etymology 3
.

Noun

 * 1)  manna

Etymology
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) man
 * 2) husband
 * 1) husband

Noun

 * 1) neck

Pronoun

 * 1) I first-person singular subject pronoun

Etymology
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) man
 * 2) husband

Etymology
From, from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) man
 * 2) husband