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m

See also: Variations of "m"

m - Translingual

Letter

m (upper case M)

  1. The thirteenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

Symbol

m

  1. metre (U.S. meter), the unit of length in the International System of Units
  2. milli-
  3. (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”).
  4. mass
  5. month or months
  6. (music) mezzo, as in mezzo piano and mezzo forte
  7. million (since mid-20th century)
  8. 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—
  9. (music) minor

Alternative forms

Numeral

m (lower case roman numeral, upper case M)

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

Synonyms

  • Letter styles
  • Uppercase and lowercase versions of M, in normal and italic type
  • Uppercase and lowercase M in Fraktur

m - English

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme): IPA: /m/

Letter

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

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

Derived terms

Number

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

Adjective

m

  1. (grammar) Abbreviation of masculine.

Noun

m (plural ms)

  1. Abbreviation of meter.
  2. Abbreviation of mile.
  3. Abbreviation of month.
  4. Abbreviation of minute.
  5. Abbreviation of million.
  6. Abbreviation of minim (“unit of volume”).
  7. (music) Abbreviation of measure.
  8. (obsolete) thousand

Verb

m

  1. (knitting) make

Translations

  • Hungarian: m (hu)
  • Khmer: ម. (mɔ)
  • Polish: metr (pl) n
  • Russian: м (ru) (m)
  • Hebrew: ז‎ (he) (z)
  • Hungarian: hn.
  • Marathi: पुलिंग (puliṅga)
  • Russian: м (ru) (m)
  • Russian: м (ru) (m)

m - Azerbaijani

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA: /m/

Letter

m lower case (upper case M)

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

m - Basque

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /eme/, [e̞.me̞]

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

m - Chinese

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • Cantonese (Jyutping): em1

Verb

m

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, colloquial) to steal

m - Dutch

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA: /ɛm/

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

m - Egyptian

Pronunciation

 
  • (reconstructed) IPA: /ma/ → /mə/ → /m̩/
  • (modern Egyptological) IPA: /ɛm/
    • Conventional anglicization: em

Preposition

  1. in
  2. (of time) in, for, during
  3. (with certain verbs of motion) into
  4. (with most verbs of motion) from within, out of, from
  5. (of material) made of, consisting of
  6. (of contents, e.g. of a group) consisting of, comprising
  7. by means of
  8. in a state of
  9. in the capacity of, in the role of, as, being
  10. together with, along with
  11. (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

jm

Alternative forms

m

When the object of the preposition is an attached suffix pronoun, the adverbial form jm is used instead.

Derived terms

Particle

 proclitic

  1. (chiefly Old and Middle Egyptian, with a suffix pronoun) behold, lo, look
    • Synonym: (Late Egyptian) ptr
  2. (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

m m

Verb

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

Alternative forms

m

m - Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA: /mo/
  • (phoneme): IPA: /m/

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

m - Estonian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈemː/

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

m - Etulo

Pronoun

ḿ

  1. I, first-person singular pronoun
    • ḿ wēnî — I drink water
    • ḿ wēnī — I drank water

m - Faroese

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /m/

Letter

m (upper case M)

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

m - Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈæm/, [ˈæm]
  • IPA: /ˈem/, [ˈe̞m] (dated)

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

Interjection

m

  1. gentlemen (used to mark toilets and similar installations to be for men only)

m - French

Pronunciation

  • (letter name) IPA: /ɛm/

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

m - Fula

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /m/

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

Usage notes

m - Gothic

Romanization

m

  1. Romanization of 𐌼

m - Haitian Creole

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /m/

Pronoun

m

  1. Contraction of mwen.

m - Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [ˈmeːtɛr]

Noun

m (plural m-ek)

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

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
Possessive forms of m

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme): IPA: [ˈm]
  • (letter name): IPA: [ˈɛmː]

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
Possessive forms of m

m - Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • (letter name) IPA: /ɛmː/

Letter

m (upper case M)

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

m - Ido

Pronunciation

  • (context pronunciation) IPA: /m/
  • (letter name) IPA: /me/

Letter

m (upper case M)

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

m - Igbo

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /m/

Letter

m (upper case M)

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /m/

Pronoun

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

  1. (personal) I, me

m - Indonesian

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA: /ɛm/
  • (phoneme): IPA: /m/

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

m - Italian

Letter

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

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

m - Lashi

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /m/, [m̩˧]

Numeral

m

  1. five

m - Latin

Letter

m

  1. The letter of the Latin alphabet, written in the Latin script.

m - Latvian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [m]

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

m - Livonian

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA: /m/

Letter

m (upper case M)

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

m - Malay

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

m - Maltese

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /m/

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

m - Mandarin

Romanization

m

  1. Nonstandard spelling of m̄.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of ḿ.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of m̌.
  4. 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.

m - Mandinka

Pronoun

m

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

m - Norwegian

Pronunciation

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

Letter

m

  1. 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.

m - Nupe

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme): IPA: /m/, IPA: /ŋ/

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

m - Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ɛm/

Letter

m (upper case M, lower case)

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

m - Portuguese

Letter

m (upper case M, lower case b)

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

m - Romani

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /m/

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

m - Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /m/

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

m - Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

  • (uppercase): M

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA: /m/

Letter

m (Cyrillic spelling м)

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

Noun

m ? (Cyrillic spelling м)

  1. (grammar) masculine gender
  2. meter (unit of length)

m - Skolt Sami

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA: /m/

Letter

m (upper case M)

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

m - Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: (phoneme) /m/

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /me/ [me]

Pronoun

m

  1. (text messaging) Abbreviation of me.

m - Swahili

Verb

m

  1. (uncommon, archaic) you all are; thou all art
    • m hali gani? ― how are you all doing?

Usage notes

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

m - Swedish

Preposition

m

  1. w/, with; Abbreviation of med.

Proper noun

m

  1. Moderate Party; Abbreviation of Moderaterna.

m - Tagalog

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: m
  • (letter name, Filipino alphabet): IPA: /ʔem/, [ʔɛm]
  • (letter name, Abakada alphabet): IPA: /ma/, [mɐ]
  • (letter name, Abecedario): IPA: /ˈʔeme/, [ˈʔɛ.mɛ]
  • (phoneme): IPA: /m/, [m]

Letter

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

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

Letter

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

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

Letter

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

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

m - Turkish

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

m - Turkmen

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA: /m/

Letter

m (upper case M)

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

m - Xhosa

Pronoun

-m

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

m - Yoruba

Pronunciation

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

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ŋ̄/

Pronoun

m̄ or m

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ŋ́/

Particle

ḿ

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

m - Zulu

Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

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

m - ǃKung

Verb

m

  1. eat
Meaning and Definition of m
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