min

min

1. (mathematics) minimum function
2. (metrology) minute in International System of Units
3. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Minangkabau.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Minangkabau terms

• IPA^(key): /mɪn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪn

• min.

min (plural mins)

1. Abbreviation of minute.
2. (colloquial) Clipping of minute.

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

From Middle English min, from Old English min (“less; small, mean”), from Proto-Germanic *minniz (“less”), from Proto-Indo-European *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”).

• myn, minne, mynne

min

1. (obsolete or UK dialectal, Scotland) Less; smaller; lower.
   • Le Bone Florence (late 1300s)

     The more and the minne

• minnock

From Middle English min, minne, partly from Old English myne (“mind, intent, desire, love”), from Proto-West Germanic *muni, from Proto-Germanic *muniz (“mind, memory”); and also from Old Norse minni (“memory”), from Proto-Germanic *gaminþiją (“memory, remembrance”); both from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think”). Related to Icelandic minni (“memory”), German Minne (“love”).

min (plural mins)

1. (obsolete) Memory; remembrance.
   • 1875, Joshiah Gilbet Holland, Sevenoaks:

     […] and faith I've done that same and found me min; […]

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

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

• min.

min (plural mins)

1. Abbreviation of minimum.
2. (colloquial) Clipping of minimum.

   Antonym: max

   He's gotta be at least 60, min!

• INM, NMI, nim

min

1. me, first person singular pronoun, as object

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

• minu

From Latin minō, collateral form of minor. Compare Romanian mâna, mân.

min (third-person singular present indicative minã, past participle minatã)

1. to move

min

1. me (as the object of a preposition)

Azerbaijani numbers ^(edit)

←  1	←  100	1,000
Cardinal: min     Ordinal: mininci

From Proto-Turkic *bïŋ (“thousand”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰉𐰃𐰭 (bïŋ), 𐰋𐰃𐰭 (biŋ), Old Uyghur 𐽹𐽶𐽺𐽷 (mïŋ, “thousand”), Turkish bin (“thousand”), Bashkir мең (meñ, “thousand”), etc.

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min

1. thousand

• IPA^(key): /min/
• Rhymes: -in
• Hyphenation: min

From Proto-Basque *biN.^[1]

min (comparative minago, superlative minen, excessive minegi)

1. spicy, hot, bitter
2. painful
3. intimate
4. (chiefly Northern) strong, intense

min inan

1. pain
2. suffering
3. nostalgia, longing
4. desire, wish

From Proto-Basque *bini.

min inan

1. (Biscayan) Alternative form of mihi (“tongue”)

• “min”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “min”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

From clipping of English minus.

• IPA^(key): /maːi̯⁵⁵/, /maːi̯n⁵⁵/

min

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, school slang, university slang) minus (in an academic grade)

   A min ― A-

• mìn, mynn

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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min f (singulative minen)

1. kids (young goats)

min (accusative , plural )

1. defect, fault

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

• IPA^(key): /miːn/,

min

1. Abbreviation of minimal.

   Alternative form: min.

min

1. Abbreviation of minut.
2. Abbreviation of minimum.

   Alternative form: min.

min (neuter mit, plural mine)

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

Borrowed from Arabic مِنْ (min).

• IPA^(key): /mɪn/

min

1. from

• Matras, Yaron (2012) A Grammar of Domari (Mouton Grammar Library)‎, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 172

• IPA^(key): /mɪn/

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• Hyphenation: min
• Rhymes: -ɪn

From Middle Dutch min, from Old Dutch min.

min

1. minus

   Synonym: minus

   Antonym: plus

• → Papiamentu: men

min

1. (obsolete) comparative degree of weinig; less, fewer

min (comparative minder, superlative minst)

1. few, little, less common synonym of weinig.
2. opprobrious, unpleasant

From Middle Dutch min, minne, from Old Dutch minna, from Proto-West Germanic ; compare Old Frisian minne, Old Saxon minnia, Old High German minna (German Minne).

min f (uncountable)

1. (poetic) love

   Synonym: liefde

• The alternative form minne is used as a deliberate archaism in poetic and historical contexts (as in hoofse minne, which is far more common than hoofse min).

• minne

From Middle Dutch minne, from minnemoeder.

min f (plural minnen, diminutive minnetje n)

1. wetnurse
2. maid, especially a nursemaid

• Negerhollands: minnetje (from the diminutive)
• → Papiamentu: menchi, minnetsje, míntsje (from the diminutive)

A contraction of mannin (“woman”).

min f (plural minnen, diminutive minnetje n)

1. woman

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

min

1. inflection of minnen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

From Old Norse með, with a change from ð > n.

min

1. with

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

• IPA^(key): /min/

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• Rhymes: -in
• Hyphenation: min

min

1. accusative of mi

   Li batis min! ― He hit me!

2. myself

   Mi vidas min. ― I see myself.

min

1. Abbreviation of minuutti.

• nim

• mio, mino

Inherited from Latin meum. Doublet of mon (possessive determiner).

min (feminine singular mina, masculine plural mins, feminine plural mines) (ORB, broad)

1. mine (first-person singular possessor)

• mien in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• min in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

min

1. 1st person singular emphatic pronoun I, me

• Used in Pular.

• miin (Pulaar, Fouta-toro, Adamawa, Liptaako, Maasina)

min

1. (Adamawa) first person plural exclusive;short form we, us

• Used in Adamawa Fulfulde.
• Used in Maasina Fulfulde.
• Used in Western Niger Fulfulde.
• Used in Pulaar.

• enen
• en
• meɗen
• hiɗen

• men (Pular)

• Oumar Bah, Dictionnaire Pular-Français, Avec un index français-pular, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2014.
• Ritsuko Miyamoto (1993) “A Study of Fula Dialects : Examining the Continuous/Stative Constructions”, in Senri Ethnological Studies‎, volume 35, →DOI, pages 215-230

min

1. oblique of eu

min

1. water

• Randall Q. Huber, Robert B. Reed, Comparative vocabulary (1992), page 48; also ASJP (min); contrast Čestmír Loukotka, ‎Johannes Wilbert (editor), Classification of South American Indian Languages (1968, Los Angeles: Latin American Studies Center, University of California), page(s) 149, which has minta

mi (“what”) +‎ -n

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min

1. superessive singular of mi

   Min dolgozol? ― What are you working on?

• IPA^(key): /min/

min

1. less

   Antonym: plu

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈmin/
• Rhymes: -in
• Syllabification: min

borrowed from Dutch min, from Middle Dutch min, from Old Dutch min.^[1]

min (comparative lebih min, superlative paling min)

1. apocopic form of minus

borrowed from Dutch munt, from Middle Dutch mente, minte, from Latin mentha.^[1]

min (plural min-min)

1. mint (any plant in the family Lamiaceae)
2. mint (the flavouring of the plant)
3. mint (a green colour, like that of mint)

   min:  

4. mint (mint-flavored candy, often eaten to sweeten the smell of the breath)

• “min” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Proto-Finnic *mi-. Compare Finnish mitä ... sen.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈmin/,
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈmin/,
• Rhymes: -in
• Hyphenation: min

min

1. (+ sen) Establishes a correlation between multiple comparatives in a sentence; the ...

   Min enemmän siä sööt, sen suuremp siä oot. ― The more you eat, the bigger you are.

   • 1936, L. G. Terehova, V. G. Erdeli, translated by Mihailov and P. I. Maksimov, Geografia: oppikirja iƶoroin alkușkoulun kolmatta klaassaa vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 7:

     Min alemmaal ono päivyt maan päält, sen pitemp on kupahain, a min hää ono ylempään, sen lyhemp ono kupahain.

     The lower the sun is along the earth, the longer is the shadow, and the higher it is, the shorter is the shadow.

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 310

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈmʲinʲ/^[1]
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈmʲɨnʲ/^[2]

From Middle Irish min, from Old Irish men (“flour”),^[3] from Proto-Celtic *menā.

min f (genitive singular mine)

1. meal
2. powdered matter

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

min

1. inflection of mion:
   1. vocative/genitive masculine singular
   2. (archaic) dative feminine singular

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “min”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “min”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “min”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

min

1. Rōmaji transcription of みん

min

1. water

• Roger Blench, The Kwaŋ Language of Central Nigeria and its affinities (2007), page 4

min

1. third-person singular/plural present indicative of minēt
2. (with the particle lai) third-person singular imperative of minēt
3. (with the particle lai) third-person plural imperative of minēt

min

1. inflection of mīt:
   1. second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. third-person plural present indicative
   3. second-person singular imperative
2. (with the particle lai) third-person singular imperative of mīt
3. (with the particle lai) third-person plural imperative of mīt

min

1. genitive/dative singular of minā

• mien, myn, miin, mihn
• meyn, mäin (Westphalian: Sauerländisch)
• muin (Westphalian: Ravensbergisch, in Soest)
• müin, muin (Westphalian: Lippisch)
• moin (Eastphalian)
• m^äin (Eastphalian)

From Middle Low German min (myn).

min

1. my (mine)
   • 1772, De Platt-Dütsche; een Geschrywe, dat dee Hooch-Dütschen eene Wochenschrift heeten, page 319:

     Iß't (dacht he) mynes Vaaders Ernst: so kann ick, up de lezt, doch noch doohn, wat ick will. Iß't syn Spaas: so süht he doch, datt ick em gehorsaam bin.

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	Masculine Singular	Feminine Singular	Neuter Singular	Plural of all Genders
Nominative	min	mine min' min	min	mine min
Genitive	mines (uncommon)		mines (uncommon)
Dative	minen	miner (less common) mine min	minen min	mine min
Accusative	minen	mine min' min	min	mine min' min

• ik/ick
• din, sin

min

1. comb

From Arabic مَن (man), dialectal Arabic مِين (mīn).

• IPA^(key): /miːn/

min

1. (interrogative) who

min

1. Nonstandard spelling of mín.
2. Nonstandard spelling of mǐn.

• 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.

From Cantonese 麵 / 面 (min⁶).

min

1. noodle

• Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français

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

• IPA^(key): /mɪn/

min

1. less

   Antonym: mêe

• minre, minder

min

1. less, to a smaller degree

   Antonym: mêe

• minre, minder

• “min (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “min (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “min (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

• mine, minne, myn, myne, mynne, mein, meyne

From Old English mīn (“my, mine”), from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz (“my, mine”, pron.) (genitive of *ek (“I”)), from Proto-Indo-European *méynos (“my; mine”).

• IPA^(key): /miːn/
• Rhymes: -iːn

min (nominative I)

1. First-person singular genitive determiner: my

min is usually used before a vowel and h-, while mi is usually used before a consonant other than h-, much as with Modern English an/a.

• English: mine (determiner)
• Scots: mine (determiner)

min (nominative I)

1. First-person singular possessive pronoun: mine, of me

• English: mine (pronoun)
• Scots: mine (pronoun)

• “min, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 6 May 2018.

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

mîn

1. my, mine

• Alemannic German: miin, myn
• Bavarian: mei

  Cimbrian: main, moi (Luserna)

• Hunsrik: mein
• Luxembourgish: mäin
• German: mein
• Vilamovian: maj
• Yiddish: מײַן (mayn)

min

1. (Sylt) my (first-person singular possessive determiner)
2. (Föhr-Amrum, Mooring) feminine/neuter/plural of man (“my”)

min (plural (Sylt) minen)

1. (Sylt) mine (first-person singular possessive pronoun)
2. (Föhr-Amrum) feminine/neuter of man (“mine”)
3. (Mooring) feminine/neuter/plural of man (“mine”)

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min

1. I
2. me
3. my, mine

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈmiːn/

mīn

1. accusative/genitive of mii (“we”)

From Old Norse minn.

• IPA^(key): /miːn/, /mɪn/

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

1. my, mine

• “min” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• https://naob.no/ordbok/min_3

From Old Norse minn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz. Akin to English mine.

• IPA^(key): /mɪnː/

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

1. my, mine

• IPA^(key): /miːn/

min

1. imperative of mina

• “min” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-West Germanic *mīn.

mīn

1. my
2. mine

• Middle Dutch: mijn
  • Dutch: mijn
  • Limburgish: mien

• “mīn”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

From Proto-West Germanic *mīn.

Cognate with Old Frisian mīn, Old Saxon mīn (Dutch mijn), Old High German mīn (German mein), Old Norse mínn (Swedish min), Gothic 𐌼𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 (meins).

• IPA^(key): /miːn/

mīn

1. my
   • 10th century, Exeter Book Riddle 8‎:

     Iċ… hlūde ċirme, healde mīne wīsan, hlēoþre ne mīþe,…

     I… loudly cry out, hold my tone, don't hide a sound,…

• Middle English: min
  • English: my, mine (pronoun)
  • Scots: mine (pronoun)

mīn

1. genitive of iċ: mine, of me

From 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 𐌼𐌹𐌽𐌽𐌹𐌶𐌰 (minniza, “younger”), 𐌼𐌹𐌽𐍃 (mins, “young”), Latin minor (“smaller”).

• IPA^(key): /min/

min

1. small

• Middle English: min
  • Scots: min, myn
  • English: min

From Proto-West Germanic *mīn.

Cognate with Old English mīn, Old Saxon mīn (Dutch mijn), Old High German mīn (German mein), Old Norse mínn (Swedish min), Gothic 𐌼𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 (meins).

mīn

1. my

• North Frisian: man
• Saterland Frisian: min, mien
• West Frisian: myn

mīn

1. genitive of ik: mine, of me

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

• IPA^(key): /miːn/

mīn

1. my
2. mine

• Middle High German: mīn
  • Alemannic German: miin, myn
  • Bavarian: mei

    Cimbrian: main, moi (Luserna)

  • Hunsrik: mein
  • Luxembourgish: mäin
  • German: mein
  • Vilamovian: maj
  • Yiddish: מײַן (mayn)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

min

1. less

• Braune, Wilhelm. Althochdeutsches Lesebuch, zusammengestellt und mit Glossar versehen

From Proto-Celtic *menus, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“small”).

• (masculine nominative/accusative/dative singular, feminine nominative/vocative singular, neuter nominative/vocative/accusative/dative singular, all genders genitive plural) IPA^(key):
• (masculine vocative/genitive singular, feminine accusative/dative singular, neuter genitive singular, masculine nominative plural) IPA^(key):

min (comparative miniu)

1. minute, small

• Irish: mion
• Scottish Gaelic: mion

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key):

min

1. dative/accusative singular of men

From Proto-West Germanic *mīn.

mīn

1. my
2. mine

• Middle Low German: mīn
  • German Low German: mien

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

mīn

1. my

min m

1. my

• IPA^(key): /ˈmin/
• Rhymes: -in
• Syllabification: min

min f

1. genitive plural of mina

• Hyphenation: min

min m (invariable)

1. Abbreviation of minuto.
   1. Used to indicate time in relation to an hour on a 24-hour clock.

      O evento é hoje, às 20h30min ― The event is today at 8:30 p.m.

   2. Used to indicate any sequence of time in minutes.

      O atleta completou a corrida em 1h20min45s ― The athlete completed the race in 1 hour, 21 minutes and 45 seconds

• This abbreviation uses no spaces or points and must always follow a number (in its most common usage, a number between 00 and 59 to indicate the minutes of an hour).
• This abbreviation is often preceded by a number followed by h, used to represent hours.
• The abbreviation can be followed by another abbreviation, s, to represent seconds.
  • Example: 20h43min08s

From Old Frisian mīn, from Proto-West Germanic *mīn. Cognates include West Frisian myn and German mein.

• IPA^(key): /mɪn/

min (feminine mien, neuter mien, plural mien, predicative minnen)

1. my, mine

• Marron C. Fort (2015) “min”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN

From Old Irish men (“flour”), from Proto-Celtic *menā, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *menH- (“to trample, tread”).

• IPA^(key): /min/

min f (genitive singular mine, plural minean)

1. flour

   Synonym: flùr

• Usually used in compounds.

• min-choirce

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “min”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “men, min”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Cantonese 麵 / 面 (min⁶).

min

1. noodle

• Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet, Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français

min

1. Romanization of 𒈫 (min)

• IPA^(key): /miːn/
• Rhymes: -iːn

From minut.

min

1. min; minute

From minimum.

min

1. min; minimum

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

min c (neuter singular mitt, plural mina)

1. my
2. mine

Borrowed from German Miene.

min c

1. a facial expression

   Synonym: ansiktsuttryck

• hålla god min
• minspel

• uppsyn

• min in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• min in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• min in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• nim+

min

1. I

From Proto-Algonquian *mi·na (“berry”).

• IPA^(key): /min/

min inan (plural mina)

1. berry, huckleberry, currant; seed

• minhe
• minuu

• Rementer, Jim with Pearson, Bruce L. (2005) “min”, in Leneaux, Grant, Whritenour, Raymond, editors, The Lenape Talking Dictionary, The Lenape Language Preservation Project

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key):
• (Huế) IPA^(key):
• (Saigon) IPA^(key):

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

min • (綿, 㒙)

1. (archaic, literary) I; me

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

(classifier con) min

1. (dialectal) gaur

According to Stokes, from Proto-Celtic *maknā, *meknos, from Proto-Indo-European *mak-, *maks- (“bag, bellows, belly”), see also English maw.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /miːn/

min m (plural minion)

1. point, sharp edge

   Synonyms: ymyl, awch

2. edge, border, brim

   Synonyms: ymyl, ochr, byl

3. lip

   Synonym: gwefus

• minio (“to sharpen, to whet”)
• miniog (“sharp, keen”)
• minlliw (“lipstick”)