H4478b H4478b
Senses
1. sense 1 1×
AR["مَنْ"]·ben["মান্না"]·DE["was"]·EN["what"]·FR["quoi"]·heb["מן"]·HI["मन्ना"]·ID["Apakah-itu"]·IT["che"]·jav["Manna"]·KO["만나"]·PT["Man"]·RU["Что-это"]·ES["man"]·SW["mana"]·TR["man"]·urd["من"]
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† II. מָן in Ex 16:15 (with reference to the manna) וַיֹּאמְרוּ אִישׁ אֶל־אָחִיו מָן הוּא כִּי לֹא יָֽדְעוּ מַה־הוּא, most prob. ‘what is it?’ the question being intended as a popular etym. of מָן ‘manna,’ based upon the late Aramaic ܡܳܢ What? (man is ‘Who?’ in Arabic, Aramaic (מַן, ܡܰܢ), Mand. (מאן), Ethiopic, ‘What?’ in these dialects being مَا, מָה, ܡܳܐ, מָא (Ethiopic ment); מָן in the sense of ‘What?’ must correspond to the later Syriac ܡܳܢ, contr. from ܡܳܐ ܕܶܝܢ, 𝔗 מָדֵין: Nö§ 68 WSG 125).