# human
## English
### Etymology

From Late Middle English humaigne, humayne, humain, from Middle French humain, from Old French humain, umain (“of or belonging to man”, adjective), from Latin hūmānus m (“of man, human”, adjective); see there for further details. Spelling human has been predominant since the early 18th century. Not etymologically related to man.

### Pronunciation

* enPR: hyo͞oʹmən, IPA: /ˈhjuː.mən/, [ˈçju̟mən], [ˈçju̟mn̩]
* (New York City, some other dialects) IPA: /ˈju.mən/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -uːmən
* Hyphenation: hu‧man

### Adjective

human (comparative more human, superlative most human)
* (not comparable) Of or belonging to the species Homo sapiens or its closest relatives.
** c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vi:Some powers diuine, or els infernall, mixt / Their angry ſeedes at his conception: / For he was neuer ſprong of humaine race, / Since with the ſpirit of his fearefull pride, / He dares so doubtleſly reſolue of rule.
** 1660, [Richard Allestree], “Sect[ion] V. Of the Second Advantage, Wealth.”, in The Gentlemans Calling, London: […] T[imothy] Garthwait […], →OCLC, page 83:[N]o attempt is made to call in God to their reſcue, as if he vvere an idle unconcern'd ſpectator of humane affairs, or ſo inconſiderable an ally, as not to be vvorth the care of engaging him on their ſide.
** 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.
* (comparable) Having the nature or attributes of a human being.
    To err is human; to forgive, divine.
** 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:She was like a Beardsley Salome, he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry.
** 1963, Margery Allingham, “Eye Witness”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 249:The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.
** 2011 August 17, Holman W. Jenkins, Jr., The Many Wars of Google: Handset makers will learn to live with their new ‘frenemy’, Business World, Wall Street Journal,
    Google wouldn't be human if it didn't want some of this loot, which buying Motorola would enable it to grab.

#### Alternative forms

* humane (obsolete)

#### Synonyms

* mannish, mennish (now rare)

#### Antonyms

* inhuman
* nonhuman
* unhuman

#### Hypernyms

* animalian (in its sense including all Animalia)
* mammalian

#### Derived terms

* abhuman
* ahuman
* antehuman
* antihuman
* anti-human
* chuman
* countryhuman
* demihuman
* European early modern human
* extrahuman
* half-human
* HIV
* hope springs eternal in the human breast
* HOV
* huboon
* hucow
* hufu
* human African trypanosomiasis
* humanation
* human bean
* human behavior
* human being
* human billboard
* human biodiversity
* human blockhead
* human body
* human botfly
* humanburger
* human burrito
* human calculator
* human cannonball
* human capital
* humancentric
* human chain
* human chattel
* human cheese
* human chorionic gonadotropin
* human chorionic somatomammotrophin
* human chorionic somatomammotropin
* human choriosomatomammotrophin
* human choriosomatomammotropin
* human-computer interaction
* human condition
* human development
* human directional
* human-dominated
* human dross
* human enhancement
* human error
* humanesque
* human factors
* human flag
* human flea
* human-flesh search
* human flesh search engine
* Human Genome Project
* human geographer
* human geography
* humanhood
* humanicide
* humanics
* humaniform
* humanify
* humanimal
* human immunodeficiency virus
* human immunodeficiency virus 1
* human immunodeficiency virus 2
* human insulin
* human intelligence
* human interest
* human interface device
* humanisation
* humanish
* humanism
* humanist
* humanization
* humanize
* humanizer
* human kind, humankind
* human knot
* humanless
* human leukocyte antigen
* human-like
* humanlike
* humanly
* humanmade
* human-made
* human microphone
* human milk
* human movement
* human nature
* humanness
* human-occupied vehicle
* humanoid
* humanosphere
* human papillomavirus
* humanphobe
* human potential movement
* human-powered
* human pyramid
* human race
* human-readable
* human relations
* human resource management
* human resources (HR)
* human resources management
* human right, human rights
* human-rightism
* human-rightist
* human roulette wheel
* human sacrifice
* human safari
* human seminal plasma protein hypersensitivity
* human services
* humansexual
* human shield
* human smuggling
* human statue
* human terrain
* human touch
* human trafficker
* human trafficking
* humanure
* human wave
* humanwise
* human year
* humanzee
* human zoo
* HUMINT
* humint
* huwoman
* infrahuman
* inhuman
* inhumane
* interhuman
* intrahuman
* metahuman
* milk of human kindness
* modern human
* no human being is illegal
* no human involved
* no human is illegal
* nonhuman, non-human
* paleohuman
* panhuman
* parahuman
* posthuman
* post-human
* prehuman
* preterhuman
* preter-human
* protohuman
* proto-human
* pseudohuman
* semihuman
* semi-human
* socialism with a human face
* spontaneous human combustion
* subhuman
* suprahuman
* to err is human
* transhuman
* ultrahuman
* -umab
* werehuman
English terms starting with “human”

#### Related terms

* humane
* humanitarian
* humanitarianism
* humanity

#### Translations

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### Noun

human (plural humans)
* (strictly, biology) The tallest, most abundant and most intelligent of the primates; Homo sapiens.
    Synonyms: human being, man; see also Thesaurus:person
    Humans share common ancestors with other apes.
** 2013 May-June, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 193:Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola.
** 2013 April 18, Rock Paper Cynic (webcomic):If I ever have to choose between a future where killer robots hunt humans or a future where bacon supplies have run out ... Let's just say you better start running.
** (fantasy, science fiction, mythology) A human as contrasted from superficially similar but typically more powerful humanoid creatures; a member of the human race.
*** 1994 March 29, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes:Greetings. I am Blor-Utar from Zimtok-5. I have come to subjugate the human race. Do not resist. Why humans? Because, in addition to their value as slave labor, they are also delicious and nutritious!
** (fantasy, science fiction) A term of address for any human, often implying the listener's species is their only noteworthy trait.
*** 2011 December 29, Alex Culang, Raynato Castro, Buttersafe‎ (webcomic):Greetings, human! You have stumbled into the dimension of the Snow People. […] Flesh plows clear the streets to make them safe to drive. […] Does this shock you, human? Do the ways of our world open your eyes to the truths of your own?
* (loosely) Any hominid of the genus Homo.

#### Translations

Abkhaz: ауаҩы (awajʷə)
Acehnese: ureuëng
Achuar: aishmang
Afrikaans: mens (af)
Ahom: 𑜀𑜤𑜃𑜫 (kun)
Ainu: アイヌ (aynu)
Aja: i'i
Akan: onipa, nipa
Aklanon: tawo
Albanian: njeri (sq)
Aleut: tayaĝux̂
Amharic: የሰው ልጅ (yäsäw ləǧ), ሰው (säw)
Apache:
Western Apache: ndeeń
Arabic: إِنْسَان (ar) m (ʔinsān), نَاس pl (nās) (plural), بَشَر (ar) m (bašar), إِنْس m (ʔins)
Chadian Arabic: نادم (nādum)
Egyptian Arabic: إنسان m (ensān), بنيآدم m (baniādam)
Hijazi Arabic: إنسان m (ʼinsān), بني آدم m (bani ʼādam)
Moroccan Arabic: إنسان m (ʔinsān), بنادم m (bnādim, bnādam)
Aragonese: homo m, umano (an) m
Aramaic:
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐ݇ܢܵܫܵܐ c (nāšā)
Hebrew: אנשא c (nāšā)
Syriac: ܐܢܫܐ c (nāšā)
Argobba: ሱ (su)
Armenian: մարդ (hy) (mard)
Aromanian: om (roa-rup)
Assamese: মানুহ (manuh)
Asturian: home (ast) m, humanu (ast) m, ser humanu (ast) m
Atikamekw: iriniw
Avar: чи (či), гӏадан (ʻadan), инсан (insan)
Azerbaijani: insan (az), adam (az), kişi (az)
Bashkir: кеше (keşe), әҙәм (əźəm), бәндә (bəndə)
Basque: gizon (eu), gizaki
Belarusian: чалаве́к (be) m (čalavjék), лю́дзі pl (ljúdzi) (plural)
Bengali: মানুষ (bn) (manuś), মানব (bn) (manob), ইনসান (bn) (inośan)
Berber:
Kabyle: amdan
Tashelhit: afgan m, bnadm m
Bilua: maba
Bislama: man
Blagar: ne
Bouyei: wenz
Bulgarian: чове́к (bg) m (čovék), хо́ра (bg) pl (hóra) (plural), лю́де pl (ljúde) (plural, archaic)
Burmese: လူ (my) (lu), မနုဿ (my) (ma.nu.ssa.), လူသား (my) (lusa:), ပုဂ္ဂိုလ် (my) (pugguil), လူ (my) (lu)
Buryat: хүн (xün)
Butuanon: tao
Carpathian Rusyn: чолові́к m (čolovík)
Catalan: home (ca) m, humà (ca) m, ésser humà m
Catawba: ye
Central Melanau: tenawan
Chechen: адам (adam)
Cherokee: ᏴᏫ (yvwi)
Chichewa: munthu
Chinese:
Cantonese: 人 (yue) (jan$^4$), 人類 / 人类 (jan$^4$ leoi$^6$)
Dungan: жын (řɨn)
Eastern Min: 儂 / 侬 (nè̤ng), 人 (ìng), 人類 / 人类 (ìng-lôi)
Hakka: 人類 / 人类 (ngìn-lui)
Hokkien: 儂 / 侬 (zh-min-nan) (lâng)
Mandarin: 人 (zh) (rén), 人類 / 人类 (zh) (rénlèi)
Northern Min: 人 (nêng)
Wu: 人類 / 人类
Chukchi: о’равэтԓьан (o’ravėtḷʹan)
Chuvash: ҫын (śyn), этем (et̬em), тӑнлӑ ҫын (tănlă ś̬yn)
Coptic: ⲣⲱⲙⲉ (rōme)
Crimean Tatar: adam, insan
Czech: člověk (cs) m, lidská bytost f
Dalmatian: jomno m
Danish: menneske (da) n
Darkinjung: kuri
Dhivehi: އިންސާނުން (in̊sānun̊)
Dutch: mens (nl) m
Eastern Mari: айдеме (ajdeme), еҥ (jeŋ)
Egyptian: (rmṯ)
Emilian: òmen
Erzya: ломань (lomań)
Esperanto: homo (eo)
Estonian: inimene (et)
Evenki: иле (ile), бэе (bəje)
Ewe: ame, amegbetɔ
Extremaduran: please add this translation if you can
Faroese: menniskja n or f, fólk n, maður (fo) m
Finnish: ihminen (fi)
Franco-Provençal: homo m, étre humen m, humen m
French: homme (fr) m, être humain (fr) m, humain (fr) m
Friulian: om m, omp m
Galician: home (gl) m, humano (gl) m, ser humano (gl) m
Ge'ez: ሰብእ (säbʾ)
Georgian: კაცი (ka) (ḳaci), ადამიანი (ka) (adamiani)
German: Mensch (de) m;, menschliches Wesen n
Gothic: 𐌼𐌰𐌽𐌽𐌰 m (manna)
Greek: άνθρωπος (el) m (ánthropos), ανθρώπινο ον n (anthrópino on)
Ancient: ἄνθρωπος m (ánthrōpos)
Guaraní: ava (gn)
Gujarati: પુરુષ (gu) (puruṣ), મનુષ્ય (gu) m (manuṣya)
Haitian Creole: moun
Hausa: mutun (ha)
Hawaiian: kanaka
Hebrew: בֶּן אָדָם (he) m (ben adám) (literally "son of Adam"), אָדָם (he) m (ádam)
Hiligaynon: tawo
Hindi: मनुष्य (hi) (manuṣya), मानव (hi) m (mānav), इंसान m (insān), लोग (hi) pl (log), आदमी (hi) m (ādmī), आदम (hi) m (ādam), जन (hi) m (jan), बशर (hi) m (baśar), व्यक्ति (hi) m (vyakti), मानस (hi) m (mānas), मानुस (hi) m (mānus), मानुष (hi) m (mānuṣ)
Hungarian: ember (hu)
Hunsrik: Mensch m
Iban: mensia
Icelandic: manneskja (is) f, maður (is) m
Ido: homo (io)
Indonesian: orang (id), manusia (id), insan (id)
Interlingua: homine (ia), esser human
Inuktitut: ᐃᓄᒃ (iu) (inok)
Irish: duine (ga) m
Old Irish: duine m
Isubu: motu
Italian: uomo (it) m, umano (it) m, essere umano (it) m
Japanese: 人 (ja) (ひと, hito), 人間 (ja) (にんげん, ningen), 人類 (ja) (じんるい, jinrui)
Javanese: ꦮꦺꦴꦁ (jv) (wong), ꦠꦶꦪꦁ (jv) (tiyang), ꦩꦤꦸꦁꦱ (jv) (manungsa)
Jeju: 사름 (sareum)
Kaingang: ũn gré
Kalmyk: күн (kün)
Kannada: ಮಾನವ (kn) (mānava)
Karachay-Balkar: адам (adam), киши (kişi)
Karelian: ihmini
Kashmiri: اِنسان (insān)
Kashubian: (Slovincian) χlʉ̀ɵ̯p m, człowiek
Kazakh: адам (kk) (adam), кісі (kısı)
Khmer: មនុស្ស (km) (mɔnuh), ជគត (km) (cĕəʼkŭət), ជន (km) (cŭən), នរ (nɔɔ) (usually in compounds)
Kikuyu: mũndũ class 1
Komi-Permyak: морт (mort)
Konkani: मनिषु (maniṣu)
Korean: 사람 (ko) (saram), 인류(人類) (ko) (illyu), 인간(人間) (ko) (in'gan)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: مرۆڤ (ckb) (mrov), مردۆڤ (mirdov)
Northern Kurdish: mirov (ku), insan (ku), mirov (ku)
Kyrgyz: киши (ky) (kişi), адам (ky) (adam)
Lakota: wičháša
Lao: ມະນຸດ (lo) (ma nut), ຄົນ (lo) (khon)
Latgalian: cylvāks m
Latin: homō (la) m
Latvian: cilvēks (lv) m
Lezgi: инсан (insan), кас (kas)
Ligurian: ommo m
Lingala: moto
Linngithigh: ma
Lithuanian: žmogus (lt) m, žmonės (lt) pl
Low German:
German Low German: Minsch (nds) m, Mensch (nds) m
Lü: ᦅᦳᧃ (kun)
Luganda: omuntu class omu/aba
Luxembourgish: Mënsch m
Macedonian: човек (mk) m (čovek), луѓе pl (luǵe)
Maguindanao: taw
Malagasy: olombelona (mg)
Malay: orang (ms), manusia (ms), insan (ms)
Malayalam: മനുഷ്യൻ (ml) (manuṣyaṉ)
Maltese: bniedem m (literally “son of Adam”), uman m
Manchu: ᠨᡳᠶ᠋ᠠᠯᠮᠠ (niyalma)
Maori: tangata (mi)
Mapudungun: che
Maranao: taw
Marathi: मानव m (mānav), माणूस m (māṇūs)
Maricopa: 'iipaa
Minangkabau: urang (min)
Mirandese: persona f, pessona f, houmano m
Mòcheno: mènsch n, mènsch m
Moksha: ломань (lomań)
Mon: please add this translation if you can
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: хүн (mn) (xün)
Mongolian: ᠬᠦᠮᠦᠨ (kümün)
Nahuatl:
Central: tlacatl
Central Huasteca: tlakatl
Classical: tlacatl
Nanai: най (naj)
Nandi: ap-chii
Navajo: diné, bílaʼashdlaʼii
Neapolitan: perzona f
Nepali: मानव (ne) (mānav), मान्छे (mānche)
Nivkh: нивх (ņivx)
Nogai: аьдем (ädem)
North Frisian: mansche, mensk m (Föhr-Amrum), karmen m (Föhr-Amrum), Man m (Sylt)
Northern Thai: ᨤᩫ᩠ᨶ
Norwegian:
Bokmål: menneske (no) n, mann (no) m
Nynorsk: menneske n
Odia: ମଣିଷ (or) (maṇisha)
Old Anatolian Turkish: كشی (gişi), آدم (ādäm)
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: чловѣкъ m (člověkŭ)
Glagolitic: ⱍⰾⱁⰲⱑⰽⱏ m (člověkŭ)
Old East Slavic: человѣкъ m (čelověkŭ)
Old English: mann m
Old Javanese: wwang
Old Norse: maðr m
Old Turkic: 𐰚𐰃𐰾𐰃 (kis²i /⁠kiši⁠/)
Orok: нари (nari)
Ossetian: адӕймаг (adæjmag)
Pali:
Devanagari: नर m (nara)
Latin: nara m, manussa m
Thai: นะระ m (nara), มะนุสสะ m (manussa)
Pannonian Rusyn: чловек m (človek)
Papiamentu: hende
Pashto: انسان (ps) (insān), بشري (ps) m or f (bašari), آدم m (ādam)
Persian:
Iranian Persian: اِنْسان (ensân), آدَم (âdam), آدَمی (âdami), خاکْزاد (xâkzâd), مَرْدُم (mardom), بَشَر (bašar), مَشْیِه (mašye), دوپای (dopây)
Pipil: takat, tacat
Pitjantjatjara: wati
Plautdietsch: Mensch (nds) m
Polabian: clåvăk m
Polish: człowiek (pl) m pers, ludzie (pl) m pl (plural only), istota ludzka f
Portuguese: homem (pt) m
Punjabi: ਮਨੁੱਖ (manukkha)
Quechua: runa (qu)
Rapa Nui: tangata
Rohingya: manúic
Romagnol: òm m, òman m
Romani: manuś m
Romanian: om (ro) m
Romansch: uman m
Russian: челове́к (ru) m (čelovék), лю́ди (ru) m pl (ljúdi) (plural only)
Saho: labha
Samoan: tagata
Sanskrit: मनुष्य (sa) m (manuṣya), मानव (sa) m (mānava), नृ (sa) m (nṛ), नर (sa) m (nara), जन (sa) m (jana)
Sardinian: òmine m
Scots: bodie (genus Homo), human (Homo sapiens)
Scottish Gaelic: duine m
Seimat: tel
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: човек m, човјек m, чо̏вјек m, људи pl (plural only)
Roman: čovek (sh) m, čovjek (sh) m, ljudi (sh) pl (plural only)
Shan: ၵူၼ်း (shn) (kúun)
Sherpa: མི (mi)
Silesian: czowjek m
Sindhi: آدِمي (ādimī)
Sinhalese: මිනිසා (si) (minisā)
Slovak: človek (sk) m, ľudia (sk) m pl (plural only), ľudská bytosť f
Slovene: človek (sl) m anim, ljudje m pl
Somali: dad (so), aadame
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: cłowjek m, luź m
Upper Sorbian: čłowjek m
Southern Sierra Miwok: naŋŋaʔ
Spanish: hombre (es) m, humano (es) m, ser humano (es) m
Sranan Tongo: libisma
Sundanese: manusa (su)
Swahili: binadamu (sw)
Swedish: människa (sv) f, människa (sv) c, mänska (sv) c
Sylheti: ꠝꠣꠘꠥ (manu), ꠝꠣꠘꠥꠡ (manuś), ꠝꠣꠘ (man)
Tagalog: tao (tl)
Tai Nüa: ᥐᥨᥢᥰ (kön)
Tajik: инсон (tg) (inson), одам (tg) (odam), башар (bašar)
Tamil: மனிதன் (ta) (maṉitaṉ), மனிதர் (ta) (maṉitar)
Tarantino: omme m
Tatar: инсан (tt) (insan), кеше (tt) (keşe), адәм (tt) (adäm)
Tausug: tau
Telugu: మనిషి (te) (maniṣi), మగవాడు (te) (magavāḍu)
Thai: มนุษย์ (th) (má-nút), คน (th) (kon)
Tibetan: འགྲོ་བ་མི ('gro ba mi), མི (mi), སྐྱེ་བོ (skye bo)
Tocharian B: śaumo
Tok Pisin: man
Tongan: tangata
Tooro: omuntu class 1
Turkish: insan (tr), kişi (tr), adam (tr), beşer (tr) (archaic)
Turkmen: ynsan, ynsaan, adam (tk), kişi
Tuvaluan: tagata
Udmurt: адями (aďami), мурт (murt)
Ukrainian: люди́на (uk) f (ljudýna), лю́ди (uk) pl (ljúdy) (plural), чолові́к (uk) m (čolovík) (now usually means "man", "male human")
Urdu: اِنْسان (ur) m (insān), آدْمی (ur) m (ādmī), مَنُشیَہ m (manuśya)
Uyghur: ئىنسان (insan), ئادەم (ug) (adem)
Uzbek: inson (uz), odam (uz), kishi (uz), bashar (uz)
Venetan: òm (vec) m, òmo (vec) m
Veps: ristit
Vietnamese: người (vi), con người (vi), loài người (vi)
Vilamovian: menś m
Volapük: men (vo)
Votic: inimin
Vurës: atm̄ēn
Wallisian: tagata
Walloon: djin (wa) m, ome (wa) m (not recommended)
Wauja: enoja
Welsh: dyn (cy) m
West Frisian: minske (fy) c
Winnebago: wąk
Wolof: nit (wo)
Xhosa: umntu
Yakut: киһи (kihi)
Yiddish: מענטש m (mentsh), מענטשנקינד n (mentshnkind)
Yoruba: ènìyàn
Yucatec Maya: wíinik
Zazaki: insan (diq), merdım (diq)
Zealandic: mense m
Zhuang: vunz
Zou: mi
Zulu: umuntu (zu) class 1/2
Zuojiang Zhuang: koenz :

### Verb

human (third-person singular simple present humans, present participle humaning or humanning, simple past and past participle humaned or humanned)
* (rare) To behave as or become, or to cause to behave as or become, a human.
** 1911, Ambrose Bierce, “Music”, in The collected works of Ambrose Bierce, volume 9, page 362:[…] he sought to charm a single pair of ears, and those more hairy than critical. Later, as the race went on humaning, there grew complexity of sentiment and varying emotional needs, […]
** 2013, Biosocial Becomings, →ISBN, page 19:There are, then, many ways of humaning: these are the ways along which we make ourselves and, collaboratively, one another.

### References

* 1 2 “human” in Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary,, K Dictionaries Ltd.; Random House, Inc., 2010; reproduced on TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2025.
* ↑ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “human”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

### Further reading

* human on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* “human”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “human”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
* “human”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

### Anagrams

* Nahum

## Cebuano
### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: hu‧man

### Verb

human
* to finish

### Adjective

human
* completed; done

### Adverb

human
* after

### Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:human.

## Danish
### Adjective

human
* human (having the nature or attributes of a human being)
    Synonym: menneskelig
* humane (something done from love to humanity)

#### Inflection

$^1$ When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used. $^2$ The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.

## German
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /huˈmaːn/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -aːn

### Adjective

human (strong nominative masculine singular humaner, comparative humaner, superlative am humansten)
* humane
    Synonym: menschlich

#### Related terms

* Humanismus
* Humanist
* humanistisch

### Further reading

* “human” in Duden online
* “human” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

## Interlingua
### Adjective

human (comparative plus human, superlative le plus human)
* human
* humane

#### Derived terms

* esser human

## Northern Sami
### Pronunciation

* (Kautokeino) IPA: /ˈhuman/

### Verb

human
* first-person singular present indicative of hupmat (“speak, talk”)

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Latin hūmānus.

### Adjective

human (neuter singular humant, definite singular and plural humane)
* humane

### References

* “human” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Latin hūmānus.

### Adjective

human (neuter singular humant, definite singular and plural humane)
* humane

### References

* “human” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Romansch
### Etymology

From Latin hūmānus.

### Adjective

human m (feminine singular humana, masculine plural humans, feminine plural humanas)
* (Sursilvan) human

#### Alternative forms

* uman (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader)
* umaun (Puter)

### Noun

human m (plural humans; feminine humana, plural humanas)
* (Sursilvan) (male) human being
    Synonym: carstgaun

#### Alternative forms

* uman (Rumantsch Grischun, Surmiran, Vallader)
* umaun (Puter)

## Serbo-Croatian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /xûmaːn/
* Hyphenation: hu‧man

### Adjective

hȕmān (Cyrillic spelling ху̏ма̄н, definite hȕmānī, comparative humaniji)
* humane (with regard for the health and well-being of another; compassionate)

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Verb

human
* third-person plural present indicative of humar

## Swedish
### Adjective

human
* humane, decent, compassionate
    Deras politik har kritiserats för att inte vara human.Their politics have been criticised for being less than humane.
* (of prices) reasonable
    Det var ett humant pris.That was a reasonable price.

#### Declension

$^1$ The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. $^2$ Dated or archaic. $^3$ Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.