min

1 a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour; "he ran a 4 minute mile" [syn: minute]

2 any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province [syn: Min dialect, Fukien, Fukkianese, Hokkianese, Amoy, Taiwanese]

3 an Egyptian god of procreation

English

min

1. minute

Basque

Noun

min

1. pain

Danish

Etymology

Old Norse mínn

Pronoun

min

1. my

Dutch

Pronunciation

Preposition

min

1. minus

Esperanto

Etymology

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

Pronoun

min (accusative of mi)

1. me, to me

Kurdish

Pronoun

min

1. I
2. me
3. my, mine

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic

Pronoun

min

1. who

Mandarin

Pinyin syllable

min

1. A transliteration of any of a number of Chinese characters properly represented as having one of four tones, mīn, mín, mǐn, or mìn.

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.

Old English

Etymology

Common Germanic *minaz, from Indo-European *meino-, 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.

Pronunciation

/mi:n/

Possessive pronoun

1. my
2. mine

Old High German

Etymology

Common Germanic *minaz, whence also Old English mīn, Old Norse mínn

Pronoun

mīn

1. my
2. mine

Swedish

Etymology 1

From minut

Abbreviation

min

1. minute
2. minimum

Etymology 2

Old Norse mínn

Pronoun

min mitt, mina ˈmɪn|lang=sv

1. my
2. mine

Etymology 3

Germanic Miene

Noun

min ˈmiːn|lang=sv

1. facial expression

Min may refer to:

• Min (god), an Egyptian fertility god.
• MiN, a US based hair care company.
• Menes, an early Egyptian Pharaoh.
• Minuth, in Judaism.

• Min, a major and well-known surname in Japan.
• abbreviation of
  • minimum
    • Global minimum in mathematics
  • minute
  • Minnesota, state of the United States of America
  • ISO 639-2 code for the Minangkabau language

Chinese

• Fujian province of China is abbreviated to Mǐn, written 闽.
  • Min (linguistics), a category of spoken Chinese found in Fujian and elsewhere
  • Min (Ten Kingdoms), a kingdom in modern-day Fujian during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period
  • Min River (Fujian)

• Mín is the name of the place in the Chinese province of Sichuan.
  • Min River (Sichuan)
  • Minshan mountain range in Sichuan

popular culture

• Min Farshaw, a character in the Wheel of Time fantasy series by Robert Jordan.

See also

• MIN
• Mina
• Min County