The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen.[…]The second note, the high alarum, not so familiar and always important since it indicates the paramount sin in Man's private calendar, took most of them by surprise although they had been well prepared. 1963, Margery Allingham, “Eye Witness”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 249:
Forms
Spelling
Features
Labels
Source
man
alternative
lexicographic
Translations (62)
grc ἄνθρωπος (genus Homo) · kmr mirov (genus Homo) · ko 사람 (genus Homo) · pl człowiek (genus Homo) · ru челове́к (genus Homo) · nb menneske (genus Homo) · nv diné (genus Homo) · pt ser humano (genus Homo) · cs člověk (genus Homo) · hi मानव (genus Homo) · dsb cłowjek (genus Homo) · bg човек (genus Homo) · sh човјек (genus Homo) · ka ადამიანი (genus Homo) · sk človek (genus Homo) · ro om (genus Homo) · la homo (genus Homo) · af mens (genus Homo) · tpn abá (genus Homo) · he אנושות (genus Homo) · ca home (genus Homo) · sh човек (genus Homo) · mt bniedem (genus Homo) · fi ihminen (genus Homo) · id orang (genus Homo) · ia homine (genus Homo) · pt homem (genus Homo) · pt humano (genus Homo) · nl de mens (genus Homo) · tr insan (genus Homo) · id manusia (genus Homo) · br mab-den (genus Homo) · ia esser human (genus Homo) · sh čovjek (genus Homo) · zh 人 (genus Homo) · it uomo (genus Homo) · sh čovek (genus Homo) · fy minske (genus Homo) · csm naŋˑa- (genus Homo) · et inimene (genus Homo) · ia humano (genus Homo) · yi מענטש (genus Homo) · sl človek (genus Homo) · ang mann (genus Homo) · ar إِنْسَان (genus Homo) · sv människa (genus Homo) · eo homo (genus Homo) · hu ember (genus Homo) · es hombre (genus Homo) · fa مَردُم (genus Homo) · ja ヒト (genus Homo) · ca humà (genus Homo) · fr Homme (genus Homo) · is menn (genus Homo) · ja 人間 (genus Homo) · de Mensch (genus Homo) · ko 인간 (genus Homo) · oc òme (genus Homo) · gd mac an duine (genus Homo) · da menneske (genus Homo) · io homo (genus Homo) · el άνθρωπος (genus Homo)
From Old Irish Mana, from Proto-Celtic *moniyos, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to tower, stand out”).
Meanings
The Isle of Man; an island and crown dependency of the United Kingdom in the Irish Sea.
And therefore the Bishop and clergy of Man were totally powerless to resist the alteration of doctrinal articles and rites of worship which Earls Edward and Henry, between 1521 and 1594, following the edicts of Henry VIII., Edward VI., and Elizabeth, introduced into the Isle of Man. 1860, William Mackenzie, editor, Legislation by Three of the Thirteen Stanleys, Kings of Man. […], Douglas, Isle of Man: […] [T]he Manx Society, page 191: