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I think it's closer to "stand-up" or "decent" than honorable, but yes. (The neutral version would be מאַן, which literally means man or husband.)

• jjtheblunt 3y ago
  what's that phonetically?
  • akavi 3y ago
    I believe it's pronounced very similar to the English word "man" (with the vowel being a little farther back. Halfway to "mon" as in "pokemon")
    • woodruffw 3y ago
      Yep, that’s correct. It’s a long a, similar to ā in Latin.
• fortran77 3y ago
  Umm... מאָן means poppyseed in Yiddish (and Purim is around the corner, which means המן־טאַשן with מאָן filling!)
  • woodruffw 3y ago
    I wrote מאַן, not מאָן :-). (For those wondering: “man” in Yiddish looks a lot like “mohn”, which is the same as German mohn.)