Proto-Semitic root

*mVnn-

‘bestow, grant a favour’ 1, ‘favour, benefit’ 2

di Mino’s gloss: to grant a favour; favour, benefit

In Linear A1 entry

DA-MI-NUḎā-Mīnupersonal name, 'He of the Portion' (ḏā + √m-n-y)SpeculativeSemitic13D

Notes

Arabic manna ʿalayhi also ‘he reproached him for a favour he had bestowed’ (Lane 3024); HALOT 602 joins that sense, Arb. mnn ‘to reprove a good deed’, to Geez and Tigre ‘to despise, reject’. Not 2965 *mann- ‘manna’ nor 850 *mnḥ ‘give, offer’.

Reflexes3 languages

Arabic2

Arabicmanna ʿalayhi ‘he conferred, or bestowed, upon him a favour, or benefit’ 1, inf. mannimtanna id. (Lane 3024)
Pre-Islamic North ArabianSafaitic tmn, t-stem: l PN w tmn (ISB 86) (Al-Jallad–Jaworska 133)gloss withheld

Epigraphic South Arabian1

Epigraphic South ArabianSab mn 2 (Gl 1379/6) (SD 86)gloss withheld

† Gloss withheld: the cited dictionary’s licence is closed, so its form and page stand without its gloss.