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/

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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
   • 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)

Other scripts

Cyrillic		мин
Abjad		مین

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

Declension of min
	singular	plural
nominative	min	minlər
definite accusative	mini	minləri
dative	minə	minlərə
locative	mində	minlərdə
ablative	mindən	minlərdən
definite genitive	minin	minlərin

Possessive forms of min
	nominative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	minim	minlərim
sənin (“your”)	minin	minlərin
onun (“his/her/its”)	mini	minləri
bizim (“our”)	minimiz	minlərimiz
sizin (“your”)	mininiz	minləriniz
onların (“their”)	mini or minləri	minləri
	accusative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	minimi	minlərimi
sənin (“your”)	minini	minlərini
onun (“his/her/its”)	minini	minlərini
bizim (“our”)	minimizi	minlərimizi
sizin (“your”)	mininizi	minlərinizi
onların (“their”)	minini or minlərini	minlərini
	dative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	minimə	minlərimə
sənin (“your”)	mininə	minlərinə
onun (“his/her/its”)	mininə	minlərinə
bizim (“our”)	minimizə	minlərimizə
sizin (“your”)	mininizə	minlərinizə
onların (“their”)	mininə or minlərinə	minlərinə
	locative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	minimdə	minlərimdə
sənin (“your”)	minində	minlərində
onun (“his/her/its”)	minində	minlərində
bizim (“our”)	minimizdə	minlərimizdə
sizin (“your”)	mininizdə	minlərinizdə
onların (“their”)	minində or minlərində	minlərində
	ablative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	minimdən	minlərimdən
sənin (“your”)	minindən	minlərindən
onun (“his/her/its”)	minindən	minlərindən
bizim (“our”)	minimizdən	minlərimizdən
sizin (“your”)	mininizdən	minlərinizdən
onların (“their”)	minindən or minlərindən	minlərindən
	genitive
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	minimin	minlərimin
sənin (“your”)	mininin	minlərinin
onun (“his/her/its”)	mininin	minlərinin
bizim (“our”)	minimizin	minlərimizin
sizin (“your”)	mininizin	minlərinizin
onların (“their”)	mininin or minlərinin	minlərinin

• IPA^(key): /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], Euskaltzaindia
• “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

• → 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

• 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

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• 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

Pronominal adverbs from case suffixes (cf. postpositions)
ed	suffix	who?	what?	this	that	he/she (it)*
case							v. pr.	c.
nom.	–	ki	mi	ez	az	ő* / -∅ az / -∅	–	–
acc.	-t / -ot / -at / -et / -öt	kit	mit	ezt	azt	őt* / -∅ azt / -∅	–	c1 c2
dat.	-nak / -nek	kinek	minek	ennek	annak	neki	neki-	c
ins.	-val / -vel	kivel	mivel	ezzel/ evvel	azzal/ avval	vele		c
c-f.	-ért	kiért	miért	ezért	azért	érte	–	c
tra.	-vá / -vé	kivé	mivé	ezzé	azzá	–	–	c
ter.	-ig	–	meddig	eddig	addig	–	–	c
e-f.	-ként	(kiként)	(miként)	ekként	akként	–	–	c
e-m.	-ul / -ül	–	–	–	–	–	–	c
ine.	-ban / -ben	kiben	miben	ebben	abban	benne	–	c
sup.	-n/-on/-en/-ön	kin	min	ezen	azon	rajta	(rajta-)	c
ade.	-nál / -nél	kinél	minél	ennél	annál	nála	–	c
ill.	-ba / -be	kibe	mibe	ebbe	abba	bele	bele-	c
sub.	-ra / -re	kire	mire	erre	arra	rá	rá-	c
all.	-hoz/-hez/-höz	kihez	mihez	ehhez	ahhoz	hozzá	hozzá-	c
el.	-ból / -ből	kiből	miből	ebből	abból	belőle	–	c
del.	-ról / -ről	kiről	miről	erről	arról	róla	–	c
abl.	-tól / -től	kitől	mitől	ettől	attól	tőle	–	c
*: Ő and őt refer to human beings; the forms below them might be construed likewise. – Forms in parentheses are uncommon. All »

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪn/
• Rhymes: -mɪn, -ɪn, -n
• Hyphenation: min

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

min

1. apocopic form of minus

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

min (plural min-min)

1. mint:
   1. Any plant in the genus Mentha in the family Lamiaceae, typically aromatic with square stems.
   2. The flavouring of the plant, either a sweet, a jelly or sauce.
   3. Any plant in the mint family, Lamiaceae.
   4. A green colour, like that of mint.

      min:  

   5. A mint-flavored candy, often eaten to sweeten the smell of the breath.

• pudina (Standard Malay)

• “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): /ˈmʲɪnʲ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈmʲɨ̞nʲ/

From Old Irish men, min (“flour, meal; fine powder, dust”).

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
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “men, min”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “min”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “min”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 39
• Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 67

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”)

• IPA^(key):

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

• IPA^(key): /miːn/

mīn

1. my
2. mine

Old High German personal pronouns

Number	Person	Gender	Nominative	Genitive	Dative	Accusative
Singular	First		ih (ihha, ihcha)	mīn	mir	mih
	Second		dū	dīn	dir	dih
	Third	Masculine	er (her)	(sīn)	imu, imo	inan, in
		Feminine	siu; sī, si	ira (iru, iro)	iru, iro	sia
		Neuter	iz	es, is	imu, imo	iz
Plural	First		wir	unsēr	uns	unsih
	Second		ir	iuwēr	iu	iuwih
	Third	Masculine	sie	iro	im, in	sie
		Feminine	sio	iro	im, in	sio
		Neuter	siu	iro	im, in	siu
Polite form	Second		ir	iuwēr	iu	iuwih

• 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

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

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, min (“flour, meal; fine powder, dust”), from Proto-Celtic *min-, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *mn̥-tew-oh₂, see also Ancient Greek ματέω (matéō).^[1] However, compare μάσσω (mássō).

• IPA^(key): /mjin/

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”)