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Native Script:日本語
Pronunciation / Transliteration: fun / pun
"一分だけお待ちください。"
Comprehensive Definitions & Senses
2 senses- 1
A unit of time equal to sixty seconds or one-sixtieth of an hour.
"She will be ready to leave in just five minutes."
- 1
Extremely small, tiny, or precise in detail.
"The detective examined the crime scene with minute attention to detail."
Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
Derived from the Latin 'minutus', meaning 'small' or 'minute' (past participle of 'minuere', to lessen). The temporal sense arose from the medieval division of the hour into small parts ('pars minuta prima', or first small part).
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10 Global Lexicons: How "Minute" is said worldwide
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minuto
Transliteration: miˈnu.to
"Espera un minuto, por favor."
minuto
Transliteration: miˈnu.tu
"Espere um minuto, por favor."
minute
Transliteration: minyt
"Attendez une minute, s'il vous plaît."
Minute
Transliteration: miˈnuːtə
"Ich bin in einer Minute zurück."
minuto
Transliteration: miˈnuːto
"Aspetta un minuto, per favore."
मिनट
Transliteration: minat
Script: हिंदी देवनागरी
"कृपया एक मिनट प्रतीक्षा करें।"
分钟
Transliteration: fēnzhōng
Script: 中文汉字
"请等我一分钟。"
분
Transliteration: bun
Script: 한국어 한글
"잠시만 기다려 주세요."
分
Transliteration: fun / pun
Script: 日本語
"一分だけお待ちください。"
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