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From Proto-West Semitic *min. Cognate with Hebrew מִן (min).

IPA^(key): /min/

مِنْ • (min)

having partitive effect: of, some of, parts of, one of
- 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 11:78:
  أَلَيْسَ مِنْكُمْ رَجُلٌ رَشِيدٌ
  ʔalaysa minkum rajulun rašīdun
  Is there not a right-minded man among you?
made of
تِمْثَالٌ مِنَ الرُّخَامِ ― timṯālun mina ar-ruḵāmi ― a statue of marble

خَاتَمٌ مِنْ ذَهَبٍ ― ḵātamun min ḏahabin ― a ring of gold, a gold ring
containing, including
كُوبٌ مِنَ الْقَهْوَةِ ― kūbun mina al-qahwati ― a cup of coffee
pertaining to
to wit
from, away from, out of
(time) at, on
in relation to, with respect to
due to, owing to
مَاتَ مِنَ الْعَطَشِ ― māta mina al-ʕaṭaši ― He died of thirst.
(used to construe certain verbs)
تَمَكَّنُوا مِنْهُ ― tamakkanū minhu ― They took power over him.
between; in contrast with
مَيَّزَ الْجَيِّدَ مِنَ الرَّدِيءِ
mayyaza l-jayyida mina ar-radīʔi
He differentiated/discerned between the good and the bad

عَرَفَ الْحَقَّ مِنَ الْبَاطِلِ
ʕarafa l-ḥaqqa mina al-bāṭili
He knew truth from falsehood
(chiefly in the negative) any
هَلْ فِي ذَٰلِكَ مِنْ شَكٍّ؟
hal fī ḏālika min šakkin?
Is there any doubt about that?
- 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 35:3:
  هَلْ مِنْ خَالِقٍ غَيْرُ ٱللّٰهِ يَرْزُقُكُمْ مِنَ ٱلسَّمَاءِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ
  hal min ḵāliqin ḡayru llāhi yarzuqukum mina s-samāʔi wa-l-ʔarḍi
  Is there any creator other than Allah who provides for you from the heaven and earth?
than (with comparatives)

مِمَّا (mimmā)
مِمَّ (mimma)
مِمَّنْ (mimman)
مِنْ بَابِ أَوْلَى (min bābi ʔawlā)
مِنْ بُعْدٍ/بَعْدُ (min buʕdin/baʕdu, “from afar”)
مِنْ بَعْدِ (min baʕdi, “after”)
مِنْ قَبْلُ (min qablu, “from the front”)
مِنْ قَبْلِ (min qabli, “before”)
مِنْ قُبُلِ (min qubuli, “by, from the part of”)
مِنْ حَيْثُ (min ḥayṯu, “from where, whence”)
مِنْ دُونِ (min dūni, “without”)
مِنْ غَيْرِ (min ḡayri, “without”)

Maltese: minn

From Proto-Semitic *mann-. Cognates include Aramaic מן (man), Ge'ez መኑ (männu) and Amharic ማን (man).

IPA^(key): /man/

مَنْ • (man) m

(interrogative) who?
(interrogative) which?, which one?
(relative) who, the one who, he who, those who, everyone who
(conditional) whoever
- 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 99:7-8:
  فَمَنْ يَعْمَلْ مِثْقَالَ ذَرَّةٍ خَيْرًا يَرَهُ
  وَمَنْ يَعْمَلْ مِثْقَالَ ذَرَّةٍ شَرًّا يَرَهُ
  fa-man yaʕmal miṯqāla ḏarratin ḵayran yarahu
  wa-man yaʕmal miṯqāla ḏarratin šarran yarahu
  So whoever does an atom's weight of good will see it,
  And whoever does an atom's weight of evil will see it.

Grammatically a masculine singular, the pronoun is semantically gender- and number-neutral.

لِمَن (liman) ،فَمَن (faman) ،أَفَمَن (ʔafaman)

The noun is modelled on a large scale upon Aramaic מַנָּא / ܡܢܐ (mannā) from the same root.

مَنَّ • (manna) I (non-past يَمُنُّ (yamunnu), verbal noun مَنّ (mann) or مِنَّة (minna))

to be kind, kindly, benign, gracious, benevolent (عَلَى (ʕalā))
to show, to grant, to confer (عَلَى (ʕalā))
إن المسلمين يعرفون المهارات القيادية المختلفة التي مَنَّ بها الله على نبيّه الكريم.
Muslims know the different leadership skills that God has bestowed upon His noble Prophet.
(obsolete) to cut off, to curtail
(obsolete) to jade, to tire
(obsolete) to decrease, to diminish, to reduce
to reproach, to upbraid [transitive ‘with the benefit received’ with عَلَى (ʕalā) ‘whom’]
- 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 26:22:
  وَتِلْكَ نِعْمَةٌ تَمُنُّهَا عَلَيَّ أَنْ عَبَّدتَّ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ
  And this is the past favour wherewith thou reproachest me: that thou hast enslaved the Children of Israel.

Conjugation of مَنَّ (I, geminate, a ~ u, full passive, verbal nouns مَنّ, مِنَّة)

active voice الْفِعْل الْمَعْلُوم
verbal noun الْمَصْدَر	مَنّ, مِنَّة mann, minna
active participle اِسْم الْفَاعِل	مَانّ mānn
passive participle اِسْم الْمَفْعُول	مَمْنُون mamnūn
	singular الْمُفْرَد		dual الْمُثَنَّى		plural الْجَمْع
	1^st person الْمُتَكَلِّم	2^nd person الْمُخَاطَب	3^rd person الْغَائِب	2^nd person الْمُخَاطَب	3^rd person الْغَائِب	1^st person الْمُتَكَلِّم	2^nd person الْمُخَاطَب	3^rd person الْغَائِب
past (perfect) indicative الْمَاضِي	m	مَنَنْتُ manantu	مَنَنْتَ mananta	مَنَّ manna	مَنَنْتُمَا manantumā	مَنَّا mannā	مَنَنَّا manannā	مَنَنْتُمْ manantum	مَنُّوا mannū
f	مَنَنْتِ mananti	مَنَّتْ mannat	مَنَّتَا mannatā	مَنَنْتُنَّ manantunna	مَنَنَّ mananna
non-past (imperfect) indicative الْمُضَارِع الْمَرْفُوع	m	أَمُنُّ ʔamunnu	تَمُنُّ tamunnu	يَمُنُّ yamunnu	تَمُنَّانِ tamunnāni	يَمُنَّانِ yamunnāni	نَمُنُّ namunnu	تَمُنُّونَ tamunnūna	يَمُنُّونَ yamunnūna
f	تَمُنِّينَ tamunnīna	تَمُنُّ tamunnu	تَمُنَّانِ tamunnāni	تَمْنُنَّ tamnunna	يَمْنُنَّ yamnunna
subjunctive الْمُضَارِع الْمَنْصُوب	m	أَمُنَّ ʔamunna	تَمُنَّ tamunna	يَمُنَّ yamunna	تَمُنَّا tamunnā	يَمُنَّا yamunnā	نَمُنَّ namunna	تَمُنُّوا tamunnū	يَمُنُّوا yamunnū
f	تَمُنِّي tamunnī	تَمُنَّ tamunna	تَمُنَّا tamunnā	تَمْنُنَّ tamnunna	يَمْنُنَّ yamnunna
jussive الْمُضَارِع الْمَجْزُوم	m	أَمُنَّ, أَمُنِّ, أَمْنُنْ ʔamunna, ʔamunni, ʔamnun	تَمُنَّ, تَمُنِّ, تَمْنُنْ tamunna, tamunni, tamnun	يَمُنَّ, يَمُنِّ, يَمْنُنْ yamunna, yamunni, yamnun	تَمُنَّا tamunnā	يَمُنَّا yamunnā	نَمُنَّ, نَمُنِّ, نَمْنُنْ namunna, namunni, namnun	تَمُنُّوا tamunnū	يَمُنُّوا yamunnū
f	تَمُنِّي tamunnī	تَمُنَّ, تَمُنِّ, تَمْنُنْ tamunna, tamunni, tamnun	تَمُنَّا tamunnā	تَمْنُنَّ tamnunna	يَمْنُنَّ yamnunna
imperative الْأَمْر	m		مُنَّ, مُنِّ, اُمْنُنْ munna, munni, umnun		مُنَّا munnā			مُنُّوا munnū
f	مُنِّي munnī	اُمْنُنَّ umnunna
passive voice الْفِعْل الْمَجْهُول
	singular الْمُفْرَد		dual الْمُثَنَّى		plural الْجَمْع
	1^st person الْمُتَكَلِّم	2^nd person الْمُخَاطَب	3^rd person الْغَائِب	2^nd person الْمُخَاطَب	3^rd person الْغَائِب	1^st person الْمُتَكَلِّم	2^nd person الْمُخَاطَب	3^rd person الْغَائِب
past (perfect) indicative الْمَاضِي	m	مُنِنْتُ munintu	مُنِنْتَ muninta	مُنَّ munna	مُنِنْتُمَا munintumā	مُنَّا munnā	مُنِنَّا muninnā	مُنِنْتُمْ munintum	مُنُّوا munnū
f	مُنِنْتِ muninti	مُنَّتْ munnat	مُنَّتَا munnatā	مُنِنْتُنَّ munintunna	مُنِنَّ muninna
non-past (imperfect) indicative الْمُضَارِع الْمَرْفُوع	m	أُمَنُّ ʔumannu	تُمَنُّ tumannu	يُمَنُّ yumannu	تُمَنَّانِ tumannāni	يُمَنَّانِ yumannāni	نُمَنُّ numannu	تُمَنُّونَ tumannūna	يُمَنُّونَ yumannūna
f	تُمَنِّينَ tumannīna	تُمَنُّ tumannu	تُمَنَّانِ tumannāni	تُمْنَنَّ tumnanna	يُمْنَنَّ yumnanna
subjunctive الْمُضَارِع الْمَنْصُوب	m	أُمَنَّ ʔumanna	تُمَنَّ tumanna	يُمَنَّ yumanna	تُمَنَّا tumannā	يُمَنَّا yumannā	نُمَنَّ numanna	تُمَنُّوا tumannū	يُمَنُّوا yumannū
f	تُمَنِّي tumannī	تُمَنَّ tumanna	تُمَنَّا tumannā	تُمْنَنَّ tumnanna	يُمْنَنَّ yumnanna
jussive الْمُضَارِع الْمَجْزُوم	m	أُمَنَّ, أُمَنِّ, أُمْنَنْ ʔumanna, ʔumanni, ʔumnan	تُمَنَّ, تُمَنِّ, تُمْنَنْ tumanna, tumanni, tumnan	يُمَنَّ, يُمَنِّ, يُمْنَنْ yumanna, yumanni, yumnan	تُمَنَّا tumannā	يُمَنَّا yumannā	نُمَنَّ, نُمَنِّ, نُمْنَنْ numanna, numanni, numnan	تُمَنُّوا tumannū	يُمَنُّوا yumannū
f	تُمَنِّي tumannī	تُمَنَّ, تُمَنِّ, تُمْنَنْ tumanna, tumanni, tumnan	تُمَنَّا tumannā	تُمْنَنَّ tumnanna	يُمْنَنَّ yumnanna

مَنّ • (mann) m

verbal noun of مَنَّ (manna) (form I)
favor, benefit, blessing, boon
gracious bestowal, gift, largess
manna
- 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 20:80:
  يَٰبَنِي إِسْرَاءِيلَ قَدْ أَنْجَيْنَٰكُمْ مِّنْ عَدُوِّكُمْ وَوَٰعَدْنَٰكُمْ جَانِبَ ٱلطُّورِ ٱلْأَيْمَنَ وَنَزَّلْنَا عَلَيْكُمُ ٱلْمَنَّ وَٱلسَّلْوَىٰ
  yābanī ʔisrāʔīla qad ʔanjaynākum min ʕaduwwikum wawāʕadnākum jāniba ṭ-ṭūri l-ʔaymana wanazzalnā ʕalaykumu l-manna was-salwā
  O sons of Israel, We did deliver you from your enemy and We did covenant with you on the right side of the Mount [Sinai] and We did send down unto you the manna and the quails.
- 1865 CE, Bible (SVD), Book of Exodus, 16:35:
  وَأَكَلَ بَنُو إِسْرَاءِيلَ ٱلْمَنَّ أَرْبَعِينَ سَنَةً حَتَّىٰ جَاءُوا إِلَىٰ أَرْضٍ عَامِرَةٍ.
  waʔakala banū ʔisrāʔīla l-manna ʔarbaʕīna sanatan ḥattā jāʔū ʔilā ʔarḍin ʕāmiratin.
  And the sons of Israel have eaten the manna [for] forty years, until their coming to the land to be inhabited.
(countable) a sweet liquid substance such as honey, nectar, or manna; honeydew

Declension of noun مَنّ (mann)

Singular	basic singular triptote
Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	مَنّ mann	الْمَنّ al-mann	مَنّ mann
Nominative	مَنٌّ mannun	الْمَنُّ al-mannu	مَنُّ mannu
Accusative	مَنًّا mannan	الْمَنَّ al-manna	مَنَّ manna
Genitive	مَنٍّ mannin	الْمَنِّ al-manni	مَنِّ manni

مَنّ • (mann) m (collective, singulative مَنَّة f (manna))

aphid

Ahrens, Karl (1930) “Christliches im Qoran. Eine Nachlese”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎^[1] (in German), volume 84, page 25
Fraenkel, Siegmund (1880) De vocabulis in antiquis Arabum carminibus et in Corano peregrinis‎^[2] (in Latin), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 21
Jeffery, Arthur (1938) The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾān (Gaekwad’s Oriental Series; 79), Baroda: Oriental Institute, pages 271–272

From Aramaic מָנָא (mānā), from Akkadian 𒈠𒉡𒌑 (manû), whence also Sumerian 𒈠𒈾 (ma-na /⁠mana⁠/) and Hebrew מָנֶה (mānḗ).

IPA^(key): /mann/

مَنّ • (mann) m (plural أَمْنَان (ʔamnān))

a historical unit of mass – translatable as mina or maund – varying usually between ca. 1–3 kilograms, however in some cases also going up over 40 kilograms.

Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 203
Kaufman, Stephen A. (1974) The Akkadian Influences on Aramaic (The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago Assyriological Studies; 19)‎^[3], Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 69
Zimmern, Heinrich (1915) Akkadische Fremdwörter als Beweis für babylonischen Kultureinfluss (in German), Leipzig: A. Edelmann, page 20
Mann (Einheit) on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

Freytag, Georg (1837) “من”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[4] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 211–212
Wehr, Hans (1979) “من”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, pages 1084–1085

من

Arabic spelling of mən (“I”)

من • (man)

first-person singular subjective personal pronoun: I

Case	Personal
1st person	2nd person
sg.	Plural Inclusive	Plural Default	sg.	sg. & pl.
Direct/Oblique	من	ماشما	ما	تئو	شما
Object	منا	ماشمارا	مارا	ترا	شمارا
Genitive	منی	مئےشمے	مئے	تئیی	شمئے

Jahani, C. 2019. A Grammar of Modern Standard Balochi. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Studia Iranica Upsaliensia 36. 292 pp. Uppsala. ISBN 978-91-513-0820-3.

Compare Persian من (man).

IPA^(key): /mɪn/

Northern Kurdish	ez
Southern Kurdish	م (mi)

من (min)

I
me
my, mine

	singular	plural
1st person	من (mən)	ئێمە (eːmæ)
2nd person	تۆ (toː)	ئێوە (eːwæ)
3rd person	ئەو (æw)	ئەوان (æwaːn)

From Proto-Turkic *ben (“I”).

من (män)

Declension of Chagatai personal pronouns

	singular		plural
1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
familiar	polite
nominative	من (män)	سن (sän)	سیز (siz)	اول, او (ul, u)	بیز (biz)	سیزلار (sizlär)	اولار, الار (ular, alar)
genitive	منينک (meniñ)	سنينک (seniñ)	سیزنينک (sizniñ)	اونينک, انينک (uniñ, aniñ)	بیزنينک (bizniñ)	سیزلارنينک (sizlärniñ)	اولارنينک (ularniñ)
dative	منکا, مانکا (maña)	سنکا, سانکا (saña)	سیزکە (sizgä)	اولارغە انکا (ularğa aña)	بیزکا (bizgä)	سیزلارکا (sizlärgä)	اولارغە (ularğa)
accusative	منی (meni)	سنی (seni)	سیزنی (sizni)	انی (ani)	بیزنی (bizni)	سیزلارنی (sizlärni)	اولارنی (ularni)
locative	مندە (mändä)	سندە (sändä)	سیزدە (sizdä)	اونينکدە, اندا, انينکدە (uniñda, anda, aniñda)	بیزدە (bizdä)	سیزلاردە (sizlärdä)	اولاردە (ularda)
ablative	مندين (mändin)	سندين (sändin)	سیزدين (sizdin)	اونينکدين, اندين, انينکدين (uniñdin, andin, aniñdin)	بیزدين (bizdin)	سیزلاردين (sizlärdin)	اولاردين (ulardin)

بَنْ (ben) (Oghuz language)

From Proto-Turkic *ben (“I”). Cognate with Turkish ben (“I”), Turkish -im (“first person singular suffix”).

من (men)

Denotes "to be" for first person singular when at the end of an object; am.
Denotes first person singular after various tenses.

It can be said that the word acts as a suffix.

مَن (mən) (definite accusative مه‌نۆ, plural بیز)

Arabic spelling of mən (“I”)

IPA^(key): /mæn/

من (män)

North Levantine Arabic

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From Arabic مِن (min, “from, of, than”). Possibly conflated with Arabic مُنْذُ (munḏu, “since, for”) in some senses.

من • (min, mn, mni)

than
from, of
تعبت من الحكي ― tʿibt mni l-ḥaki ― I’m tired of talking.
ago
شفتك من كم يوم ― šiftak min kam yōm ― I saw you a few days ago.
since
من إيام المدرسة مش حاكيين
min ʾiyyām il-madrase miš ḥākyīn
We haven't spoken since [our] school days.

The underlying form is min, but the pronunciation is determined by the phonotactical environment. The medial -i- will usually be deleted following vowels (including epenthetic linking vowels as in the example above).
Suffixes are attached to the stem minn-, for example منك (minnak, “from you”). The third-person singular feminine merges with the first-person plural as منا (minna, “from her; from us”). However, the feminine may also be realized as منها (minha), and the plural occasionally as منِنا (minina, specifically /mɪnina/), to avoid confusion. (The latter change is rarer, but can be seen somewhat-more-commonly in analogous dialectical derivations of the stem إن (inn-, “that”).)

من • (min)

since ... was/were; followed by a personal pronoun + و to express a now-untrue past state
من أنا وصغير ― min ana w-ẓḡīr ― ever since I was little

من نحنا وبالمدرسة مش حاكيين
min niḥna w-bi-l-madrase mish ḥākyīn
We haven't spoken since we were in school.

From Arabic مَا إنَّ (mā ʔinna).

من • (mann)

(false verb) not to be (always followed by a personal suffix)
المحل منو مفتوح ― l-maḥall mannu maftūḥ ― The shop isn’t open.

مش (miš)
مان (mān) (regional)

Old Anatolian Turkish

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مَنْ (män)

(Azerbaijan, East Anatolia) Alternative form of بَنْ (ben, “I”)

Azerbaijani: mən
Ottoman Turkish: (dialectal) من (men)

من • (men)

Alternative form of بن (ben, “I”)

من • (man) m

maund (unit of mass)

Iranian Persian
Dari	من
Tajik	ман

From Middle Persian 𐫖𐫗 (man, “me (early), I (later)”) from Old Persian 𐎶𐎴 (m-n /⁠mana⁠/, “me”) from Proto-Iranian *máHm from Proto-Indo-Iranian *máHm (“accusative singular of *aȷ́ʰám”). Cognate with Sanskrit मा (mā, “me”), Avestan 𐬨𐬀𐬥𐬀 (mana, “me”), Ancient Greek ἐμέ (emé, “accusative of "ἐγώ"”), and Latin me (“accusative of "ego"”).

مو (mo), مه (ma) (dialectal)

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [man]

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [män]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [mä]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [män]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [mæn]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [män]

Readings
Classical reading^?	man
Dari reading^?	man
Iranian reading^?	man
Tajik reading^?	man

مَن • (man)

I
Synonyms: (dated) بنده (bande), اینجانب (injâneb)

من رفتم. ― man raftam. ― I went.

او من را دید. ― u man râ did. ― He saw me.
(generally with following را) me
Synonyms: (dated) بنده (bande), اینجانب (injâneb)
(at the end of a Genitive ezafe) my

When acting as the grammatical object, the form من را (man râ) is used. Which can be contracted into مرا (marâ).
(colloquial, Iran) when acting as the grammatical object it is commonly contracted with را (râ) into منو (mano).

From Middle Persian, from Akkadian 𒈠𒉡𒌑 (manû).

مَن • (man)

maund (unit of mass)

Inherited from Sanskrit मनस् (mánas), from Proto-Indo-European *ménos (“mind”), from *men- (“to think”).

مَن • (man) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਮਨ)

Declension of من

	singular	plural
direct	مَن (man)	مَن (man)
oblique	مَن (man)	مَناں (manāṉ)
vocative	مَنا (manā)	مَنو (mano)
ablative	مَنوں (manoṉ)	مَناں (manāṉ)
locative	مَنے (mane)	مَنِیں (manīṉ)
instrumental	مَنوں (manoṉ)	–

مَنّ • (mann)

inflection of مَنّݨا (mannṇā):
1. stem
2. second-person singular familiar imperative

Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “من”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
“من”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2025

South Levantine Arabic

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From Arabic مِن (min, “from, of, than”).

IPA^(key): /min/, [mɪn]

من • (min)

from, of
Antonyms: لـ (la-), على (ʕala)
(time) since, for
Antonyms: لـ (la-), حتى (ḥatta), لحد (la-ḥadd)
than (with comparatives)
such as, for example

Inflection of من


base form	من (min)
Personal-pronoun including forms
	singular	plural
m	f
1^st person	منّي (minni)	منّا (minna)
2^nd person	منّك (minnak)	منّك (minnek)	منكم (minkom)
3^rd person	منّه (minno)	منها (minha)	منهم (minhom)

ممّا (mimma, “than”, conjunction)

Borrowed from Classical Persian من (man), ultimately from Akkadian 𒈠𒈾 (manûm).

من • (man) m (Hindi spelling मन)

maund (unit of mass)

From Urdu من (man).

من (man)

maund (unit of mass)
50 kilos