English

Proper noun

Min

1. An Ancient Egyptian god of fertility and procreation.

Etymology 2

From Mandarin 閩／闽 (Mǐn, “Fujian”).

Proper noun

Min

1. A river in Fujian, China.
2. A group of related Chinese languages from Fujian, including Min Nan and Min Dong.
3. A widely construed ethnic group composed of the speakers of those languages.
4. Fujian province.
   • 1998, Sucheta Mazumdar, Sugar and Society in China: Peasants, Technology and the World Market, Harvard University Asia Center, page 301:

     […] . They were started by people from Min [Fujian]. Now as a result, the profit is similar to that of Min.”

   • 2007, 钟离图美, Food in China, 五洲传播出版社, pages 18–19:

     In the early 1900s, because of the joining of regional cuisines of Zhe (Zhejiang), Min (Fujian), Xiang (Hunan) and Hui (Anhui) Cuisines, […]

   • Angela Schottenhammer, The East Asian “Mediterranean”: A Medium of Flourishing Exchange Relations and Interaction in the East Asian World in 2013, Peter N. Miller, The Sea: Thalassography and Historiography, University of Michigan, page 114:

     […] ; merchant ships from Min province (Fujian) are called “bird ships” […]

Etymology 3

From Mandarin 岷 ‎(Mín).

Proper noun

Min

1. A river in Sichuan, China.

Etymology 4

From Mandarin 敏 ‎(Mǐn).

Proper noun

Min

1. A male given name
2. A female given name

Etymology 5

Proper noun

Min

1. The Mountain Ok ethnic group of Sandaun, Papua New Guinea.

Translingual

Symbol

min

1. (mathematics) minimum function

English

Abbreviation

min

1. Alternative form of min.

   "Dinner's ready, darling!" "Be there in a min!"

Etymology 2

From Middle English min, from Old English min ‎(“less", also "small, mean, evil, vile, harmful”), from Proto-Germanic *minniz ‎(“less”), from Proto-Indo-European *(e)mey- ‎(“small, little”). Cognate with Scots min ‎(“less, lesser”), West Frisian min ‎(“small, bad”), Dutch min ‎(“less, small”), Low German minn ‎(“small, low, lean”), German minder ‎(“less”), Icelandic minna ‎(“less”), Latin minus ‎(“less”).

Alternative forms

• myn, minne, mynne

Adjective

min ‎(comparative more min, superlative most min)

1. (obsolete or Britain dialectal, Scotland) Less.
   • Le Bone Florence (late 1300s)

     The more and the minne

Etymology 3

From Middle English min, minne, from Old Norse minni ‎(“memory”), from Proto-Germanic *gaminþiją ‎(“memory, remembrance”), from Proto-Indo-European *men-, *mnā- ‎(“to think”). Related to Icelandic minni ‎(“memory”), German Minne ‎(“love”). More at mine.

Noun

min ‎(plural mins)

1. (obsolete) Memory; remembrance.

   ... and faith I've done that same and found me min; ... — Joshiah Gilbet Holland, "Sevenoaks", 1875

Etymology 4

From Middle English minnen, mynnen, from Old Norse minna ‎(“to bring to mind”), from minni ‎(“memory”). See above.

Verb

min ‎(third-person singular simple present mins, present participle minning, simple past and past participle minned)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To bring to the mind of; remind.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To remember.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To mention.

Etymology 5

Abbreviation of minimum.

Noun

min ‎(plural mins)

1. minimum

   "He's gotta be at least 60, min!"

Antonyms

• max

Translations

Anagrams

• nim
• NMI

Arigidi

Pronoun

min

1. me, first person singular pronoun, as object

References

• B. Oshodi, The HTS (High Tone Syllable) in Arigidi: An Introduction, in the Nordic Journal of African Studies 20(4): 263–275 (2011)

Asturian

Pronoun

min

1. me (as the object of a preposition)

Basque

Noun

min

1. pain

Cornish

Alternative forms

• mìn
• mynn

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mɪn]

Noun

min f ‎(singulative minen)

1. kids (young goats)

Crimean Tatar

Noun

min

1. defect, fault

Danish

Abbreviation

min or min.

1. abbreviation of minimal
2. abbreviation of minimum
3. abbreviation of minut

Etymology

From Old Norse mínn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz ‎(“my”), genitive of Proto-Germanic *ek ‎(“I”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miːn/, [miːˀn]

Pronoun

min ‎(neuter mit, plural mine)

1. mine (1.st person singular possessive pronoun)
2. my (1.st person singular possessive adjective)

See also

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪn

Etymology 1

Noun

min f ‎(plural minnen, diminutive minnetje n)

1. maid, especially a nursemaid

Etymology 2

Preposition

min

1. minus

Etymology 3

Verb

min

1. first-person singular present indicative of minnen
2. imperative of minnen

Elfdalian

Preposition

min

1. with

Esperanto

Etymology

Esperanto first person singular pronoun mi + accusative/objective case ending -n

Pronoun

min

1. accusative of mi

   Li batis min!‎

   He hit me!

2. myself

   Mi vidas min.‎

   I see myself.

Galician

Pronoun

'min oblique (nominative eu, dative me, accusative me)

1. me (singular first-person personal pronoun)

See also

• Appendix:Galician pronouns
• comigo
• eu
• me
• meu

Guayabero

Noun

min

1. water

References

• ASJP (min), but Čestmír Loukotka, ‎Johannes Wilbert (editor), Classification of South American Indian Languages (1968, Los Angeles: Latin American Studies Center, University of California), page(s) 149 has minta

Hungarian

Etymology

mi +‎ -n

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmin]

Pronoun

min

1. superessive singular of mi

   Min dolgozol?‎ ― What are you working on?

Ido

Adverb

min

1. less

Antonyms

• plu

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmʲɪnʲ/

Etymology 1

Noun

min f ‎(genitive singular mine)

1. meal
2. powdered matter

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Inflected form of mion

Adjective

min

1. vocative masculine singular of mion
2. genitive masculine singular of mion
3. (archaic) dative feminine singular of mion

Mutation

Japanese

Romanization

min

1. rōmaji reading of みん

Kurdish

Pronoun

min

1. I
2. me
3. my, mine

Latvian

Verb

min

1. 3rd person singular present indicative form of minēt
2. 3rd person plural present indicative form of minēt
3. (with the particle lai) 3rd person singular imperative form of minēt
4. (with the particle lai) 3rd person plural imperative form of minēt

Verb

min

1. 2nd person singular present indicative form of mīt
2. 3rd person singular present indicative form of mīt
3. 3rd person plural present indicative form of mīt
4. 2nd person singular imperative form of mīt
5. (with the particle lai) 3rd person singular imperative form of mīt
6. (with the particle lai) 3rd person plural imperative form of mīt

Livonian

Pronoun

min

1. singular genitive form of minā
2. singular dative form of minā

Lojban

Rafsi

min

1. rafsi of jmina.

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic مَن ‎(man), Dialectal Arabic مِين ‎(mīn)

Pronoun

min

1. who (interrogative)

Derived terms

• ta' min

Mandarin

Romanization

min

1. Nonstandard spelling of mīn.
2. Nonstandard spelling of mín.
3. Nonstandard spelling of mǐn.
4. Nonstandard spelling of mìn.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch min, from Proto-Germanic *minniz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪn/

Adverb

min (superlative minst)

1. less, to a smaller degree

Synonyms

• minre

Antonyms

• mee
• meer

Middle High German

Etymology

From Old High German mīn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz.

Determiner

mîn

1. my
2. mine

Descendants

• German: mein

Northern Sami

Pronoun

min

1. accusative and genitive of mii ‎(“we”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse minn.

Determiner

min m ‎(feminine mi, neuter mitt, plural mine)

1. my, mine

References

• “min” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

See also

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse minn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /min/ (example of pronunciation)

Determiner

min m ‎(feminine mi, neuter mitt, plural mine)

1. my, mine

References

• “min” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

See also

Novial

Adverb

min

1. less

Usage notes

• Used to form the negative comparative form of adjectives.

Antonyms

• plu

Coordinate terms

• tam

See also

• kam

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *mīnaz.

Determiner

mīn

1. my
2. mine

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: mijn
  • Dutch: mijn

Old English

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *mīnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *meinos, from *mei (locative form of *me- ‎(“me”)) + *-no- ‎(“adjectival suffix”). Cognate with Old Frisian mīn, Old Saxon mīn (Dutch mijn), Old High German mīn (German mein), Old Norse mínn (Swedish min), Gothic 𐌼𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 ‎(meins).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miːn/

Pronoun

mīn

1. my
2. mine

Etymology 2

Proto-Germanic *minniz ‎(“small”), from Proto-Indo-European *min- ‎(“small”). Akin to Old High German minniro "smaller" (German minder), Old Norse minni "smaller" (Icelandic minni, minnr), Gothic minniza "younger", mins "young", Latin minor "smaller". More at minor

Adjective

min

1. small

Derived terms

• minlīc
• mindōm
• minsian

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *mīnaz, whence also Old English mīn, Old Norse mínn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miːn/

Pronoun

mīn

1. my
2. mine

Descendants

• German: mein
• Yiddish: מײַן ‎(mayn)

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *mīnaz.

Determiner

mīn

1. my
2. mine

Declension

See also

Picard

Pronoun

min m

1. my

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

min f ‎(genitive singular mine, plural minean)

1. flour

Usage notes

• Usually used in compounds.

Synonyms

• flùr

Derived terms

• min-choirce

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miːn/

Etymology 1

From minut.

Abbreviation

min

1. min; minute

Etymology 2

From minimum.

Abbreviation

min

1. min; minimum

Etymology 3

From Old Norse mínn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *méynos.

Pronoun

min c ‎(neuter mitt, plural mina)

1. my
2. mine

Declension

Etymology 4

German Miene.

Noun

min c

1. facial expression

Declension

Unami

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /min/

Noun

min

1. berry, huckleberry, currant; seed

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [min˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [min˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [mɨ̞̠n˧˥]

Pronoun

min ‎(綿, 㒙)

1. (archaic, literary) I; me