مآن

Soqotri

Alternative forms

• مهن (mhɔn) (after prepositions)

Etymology

Akin to Mehri [script needed] (môn), Shehri [script needed] (mun), Arabic مَن (man, “who”).

Pronoun

مآن (mɔn)

1. who (interrogative or relative)
   • 2018, “Oh Generation...”, in Vitaly Naumkin, compiler, Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature, volume 2, page 90, lines 1–2:

     ومآن شيهو ڸعبارو ولنقُاد ڸمنقينيعو؟

     wa-mɔn šíʔho ḷə-ʕəbéro wa-ľinḳód ḷə-mənḳiníʕo

     Who is with me against this generation so that the crazy ones will be reprimanded?

References

• Naumkin, Vitaly, et al. (2014) “Glossary”, in Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature, volume 1, Leiden: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 612
• Naumkin, Vitaly, et al. (2018) “Glossary”, in Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature, volume 2, Leiden: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 538
• Leslau, Wolf (1938) “mon”, in Lexique Soqotri (sudarabique moderne) avec comparaisons et explications étymologiques (in French), Wiesbaden: Libraire C. Klincksieck, page 245