mnw

mnw

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Mon.

• Wiktionary's coverage of Mon terms

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /mɛnuː/
  • Conventional anglicization: menu

 m pl

1. (plural only) trees
2. (plural only) orchard, plantation
3. (plural only) plants in general

From the Late Period on, this plural was sometimes treated as a singular.

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mnw  

mnw	mnw

Uncertain, possibly a loanword from Semitic; compare Hebrew מָן (mān). Alternatively, possibly connected to mnw (“trees, orchard, plantation”).

 m

1. a white aromatic plant smelling of ꜥntjw (myrrh^?)

 m

1. monument

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mnw  

mnw

• Akhmimic Coptic: ⲙⲉⲉⲓⲛⲉ (meeine)
• Bohairic Coptic: ⲙⲏⲓⲛⲓ (mēini)
• Fayyumic Coptic: ⲙⲏⲉⲓⲛ (mēein)
• Sahidic Coptic: ⲙⲁⲉⲓⲛ (maein)

 m

1. the god Min

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mnw  

mnw	mnw	mnw	mnwtj

• prt-mnw

• → Ancient Greek: Μηνᾶς (Mēnâs)
  • → Coptic: ⲙⲏⲛⲁ (mēna)
    • → Arabic: مينا (mīna)
  • → Greek: Μηνάς (Minás)
  • → Old Armenian: Մինաս (Minas)
  • → Romanian: Mina
  • → Russian: Мина (Mina)
• → English: Min

By a misreading:

• → English: Khem

• 𓁤

• Takács, Gábor (2007) Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian, volume 3, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 284–285, →ISBN
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 71.13–71.17, 72.11
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 108
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 171, 257.