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.

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)

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

Etymology 2
Uncertain. Ebers suggested it was borrowed from Egyptian
mn
n		 nw
W		 Hn
 (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

Yiddish

Etymology

From Hebrew מָן‎ (man).

Noun

מן • (man) m

  1. manna
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