min

min

1. (mathematics) minimum function
2. minute in International System of Units

From minute.

min (plural mins)

1. Alternative form of min.

   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 (comparative more min, superlative most min)

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

     The more and the minne

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

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.

Abbreviation of minimum.

min (plural mins)

1. minimum

   He's gotta be at least 60, min!

• max

• 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 Vulgar Latin *minō, from Latin minor. Compare Romanian mâna, mân.

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

1. I move.

• minari / minare
• minat
• amin- "throw/discharge", "lead"
• mãn- "conduct, lead, drive"

min

1. me (as the object of a preposition)

• IPA^(key): [min]

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

min

1. (cardinal) thousand

min

1. pain

• mìn
• mynn

• IPA^(key): [mɪn]

min f (singulative minen)

1. kids (young goats)

min

1. defect, fault

min or min.

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

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

• IPA^(key): /miːn/, [miːˀn]

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 minne, from minnemoeder.

min f (plural minnen, diminutive minnetje n)

1. wetnurse
2. maid, especially a nursemaid

• minnemoeder

From Middle Dutch min, from Old Dutch min.

min

1. minus

   Synonym: minus

min

1. (obsolete) Comparative form of weinig; less, fewer.

• min of meer

min (comparative minder, superlative minst)

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

See the etymology of the main entry.

min

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

min

1. with

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

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min

1. accusative of mi

   Li batis min!

   He hit me!

2. myself

   Mi vidas min.

   I see myself.

min

1. Abbreviation of minuutti.

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 +‎ -n

• IPA^(key): [ˈmin]

min

1. superessive singular of mi

   Min dolgozol? ― What are you working on?

min

1. less

• plu

• IPA^(key): /ˈmʲɪnʲ/

min f (genitive singular mine)

1. meal
2. powdered matter

See the etymology of the main entry.

min

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

min

1. Rōmaji transcription of みん

• IPA^(key): [mɯn]

min

1. I
2. me
3. my, mine

min

1. water

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

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

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

min

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

min

1. comb

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

min

1. who (interrogative)

• ta' min

min (Zhuyin ˙ㄇㄧㄣ)

1. Pinyin transcription of 厸

min

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

• 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.

From Cantonese 麵 (min)

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
• “min (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

• 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 genitive pronoun: mine.

• 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-Germanic *mīnaz.

mîn

1. my, mine

• Alemannic German: miin, myn
• Bavarian: mia

  Cimbrian: main

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

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈmiːn/

mīn

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

From Old Norse minn.

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

1. my, mine

• “min” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse minn. Akin to English mine.

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

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

1. my, mine

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

min

1. imperative of mina

• “min” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

min

1. less

• Used to form the negative comparative form of adjectives.

• plu

• tam

• kam

From Proto-Germanic *mīnaz.

mīn

1. my
2. mine

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

• “mīn”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

From Proto-Germanic *mīnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *méynos, 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).

• IPA^(key): /miːn/

mīn

1. my
2. mine

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

• minlīċ
• mindōm
• minsian

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

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: mia

    Cimbrian: main

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

min

1. less

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

From Proto-Germanic *mīnaz.

mīn

1. my
2. mine

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

min m

1. my

• IPA^(key): /mʲin/

min

1. genitive plural of mina

min

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

min f (genitive singular mine, plural minean)

1. flour

• Usually used in compounds.

• flùr

• min-choirce

From Cantonese 麵 (min)

min

1. noodle

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

• 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 mitt, plural mina)

1. my
2. mine

Borrowed from German Miene.

min c

1. facial expression

min

1. defect, sin

• IPA^(key): /min/

min

1. berry, huckleberry, currant; seed

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

min (綿, 㒙)

1. (archaic, literary) I; me

(classifier con) min

1. (dialectal) gaur