mn

mn

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

mn

1. (chiefly British, Commonwealth except Canada, Ireland) Abbreviation of million.

• mn.
• mln. / mln

• bn (billion)
• tn (trillion)

mn

1. (Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of mean.
   • 2008 January–February, Chris Rodell, “Small talk, big results”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 80:

     Sure, we may use cellphones and e-mail hundreds of times a week, but we say very little. […] Most of our talk, even in privileged IM circles, is no deeper than the words we exchange with the pizza guy. […] U C wt I mn?

mn (not comparable)

1. (Philippines) Alternative form of MN (“midnight”).

• nm, NM, Nm, /nm, n/m, N.M.

mn

1. (text messaging) Nonstandard form of m'n.

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /mɛn/
  • Conventional anglicization: men

 2-lit.

1. (intransitive) to be(come) established, to be(come) fixed or set
   • c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE, Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) lines 22–23:

     šfyt ḥtp.n.s st.s fꜣw mn(.w) r hpw.f

     Dignity, it has taken its seat, and magnificence is established according to his laws.

2. (intransitive) to stick, to stay, to remain fixed, to endure (+ m: in (a place), as (a role); + ḥr: on (a seat, throne, foundation, etc.), in (one’s rightful place); + ẖr: with, having)
3. (intransitive, of the heart/mind) to be firm, steadfast, unwavering, stouthearted, especially in battle
4. (intransitive, of the legs or feet) to be firm of step, steadfast
5. (intransitive, Late Egyptian, mathematics) to be(come) left over, to be(come) the remainder or amount remaining

• Sahidic Coptic: ⲙⲟⲩⲛ (moun)

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /mɛn/
  • Conventional anglicization: men

 m

1. substitute for an unknown male name; so-and-so, N.N. [since the Pyramid Texts]

Sometimes accompanied by the demonstrative pn (“this”).

• Bohairic Coptic: ⲙⲁⲛ (man)

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /mɛn/
  • Conventional anglicization: men

 2-lit.

1. (intransitive) to suffer, to be sick
2. (transitive) to suffer from (an ailment)
3. (transitive) to feel pain or have an ailment in (a body part)
4. (transitive) to be troubled about (something)

 m

1. sick or suffering man [since the 18th Dynasty]

• “mn (lemma ID 69590)”, “mn (lemma ID 69600)”, “mn (lemma ID 69610)”, “mn (lemma ID 69660)”, and “mn (lemma ID 69670)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 60.6–62.26, 63.11, 64.13–65.2, 66.18–67.5
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 106–107
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 183, 216, 309.