みな

Japanese

Etymology 1
Alternative spelling
皆

⟨mi2na⟩ → */mʷina/ → /mina/

From Old Japanese.

Appears in the Nihon Shoki (720 CE).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

みな • (mina) 

  1. everyone, everybody
  2. all, everything
Usage notes

Especially for the first sense, usually suffixed with the honorifics さん (-san, polite) or さま (-sama, formal) when addressing a group.

Derived terms
Derived terms
  • みんな (minna)
  • みなみな (minamina)
  • みながみな (mina ga mina)
  • 皆(みな)さま (minasama)
  • 皆(みな)さん (minasan)
  • 皆(みな)掛(が)け (minagake)
  • みながら (minagara)
  • 皆(みな)熊(くま) (minakuma)
  • 皆(みな)紅(ぐれない) (minagurenai)
  • 皆(みな)殺(ごろ)し (minagoroshi)
  • 皆(みな)水(ずい)晶(しょう) (minazuishō)
  • 皆(みな)月(づき) (Minazuki)
  • みなながら (mina nagara)
  • 皆(みな)の者(もの) (mina no mono)
  • 皆(みな)人(ひと) (minahito)
  • 皆(みな)腸(わた) (minawata)
Idioms
  • 皆(みな)にする (mina ni suru)
  • 皆(みな)になす (mina ni nasu)
  • 皆(みな)になる (mina ni naru)
  • 皆(みな)まで言(い)うな (mina made iu na)
Proverbs
  • 地(ち)を易(か)うれば皆(みな)然(しか)り (chi o kaureba mina shikari)
See also

Etymology 2
For pronunciation and definitions of みな – see the following entry: 蜷

(The following entry is uncreated: 蜷.)

Etymology 3

Other various kanji spellings.

Proper noun

みな • (Mina) 

  1. 美奈, 美娜, 実奈, 実名: a female given name

References
  1. Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
  4. Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Old Japanese

Noun

みな (mi2na)

  1. 皆: everybody, everyone
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