m

The letter m

See also: Appendix:Variations of "m"

Translingual

Etymology 1

Greek Template:Grek (M, “Mu”), from which Latin upper case and lower case m were derived

Modification of capital letter (deprecated template usage) M, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek letter (deprecated template usage) .

Letter

(deprecated template usage) m (lower case, upper case M)

1. A lower case letter of the classical Latin alphabet and most variations thereof, including the English alphabet.

Usage notes

The letter (deprecated template usage) m is used in the International Phonetic Alphabet and in several romanization systems of non-Latin scripts to represent the bilabial nasal (), including Cyrillic (deprecated template usage) м (m), the beginning of various kana including (deprecated template usage) ま (ma), and Korean jamo (deprecated template usage) ㅁ (m).

See also

• Previous letter: l
• Next letter: n
• (select forms with diacritics)
• (other scripts) Template:onym, Template:onym
• Turned: ɯ

Etymology 2

Various abbreviations

Symbol

(deprecated template usage) m

1. meter (metre), the unit of length in the International System of Units
2. milli-

Etymology 3

From upper case roman numeral M (1000), an alteration of ⋈, from ∞, an alteration of ↀ, an alteration of Ⓧ, from encircling X (the roman numeral for ten) to indicate the hundredth ten.

Alternative forms

• M, ⅿ, Ⅿ

Numeral

(deprecated template usage) m (lower case roman numeral, upper case M)

1. cardinal number one thousand (1000)

Synonyms

• CIƆ

See also

• Roman numerals

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English

Pronunciation

• , Template:SAMPA

Letter

(deprecated template usage) m (lower case, upper case M)

1. The letter (deprecated template usage) em; the thirteenth letter of the English alphabet, representing the phoneme /m/.

See also

• Previous letter: l
• Next letter: n

Template:abbreviation

m

1. metre
2. Template:grammar masculine
3. mile
4. milli
5. million

Translations

metre

• Hungarian: méter (hu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: м (ru) (m)

masculine

• Hebrew: ז (z)
• Template:trreq
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Template:trreq
• Russian: м (ru) (m)

mile

• Hungarian: mérföld (hu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

milli

• Russian: м (ru) (m)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

million

• Russian: млн
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

See also

• M

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• (letter name): (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ɛm/

Letter

(deprecated template usage) m (lower case, upper case M)

1. The thirteenth letter of the Dutch alphabet.

See also

• Previous letter: l
• Next letter: n

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Haitian Creole

Etymology 1

Contraction of (deprecated template usage) mwen from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French (deprecated template usage) moi.

Pronunciation

(deprecated use of |lang= parameter)

Pronoun

(deprecated template usage) m

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter)

Etymology 2

Letter

(deprecated template usage) m (lowercase, uppercase M)

1. The thirteenth letter of the Haitian Creole alphabet.

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Italian

Noun

m

1. See under M

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Japanese

m

1. meter

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!Kung

Verb

m

1. eat

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Latin

Abbreviation

m

1. Marcus

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Mandarin

Pinyin syllable

m

1. A transliteration of Chinese characters properly represented as having the tone ḿ or m̀.

Usage notes

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

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /me/, /em/

Letter

(deprecated template usage) m (lower case, upper case M)

1. The sixteenth letter of the Romanian alphabet representing the phoneme /m/. Preceded by l and followed by n.

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Swahili

Noun class

Template:rfc-header m- (pl. differs per definition)

1. A noun class denoting a child. (pl. wa-)
2. A noun class denoting a plant. (pl. mi-)