köken: Borrowed from Classical Persian آدَمزَاد (ādam-zād, “mankind”, literally “born to Adam”). Compare Uzbek odamzod, Uyghur ئادەمزات (ademzat), Turkmen adamzat, Hindi आदमज़ाद (ādamzād).
human, person, human being · personality, character
eş: 人類, ひと, パーソン, 人柄, 人格, 世間
köken: From Middle Chinese 人間 (MC nyin kean|keanH). Analyzable as a compound of "people" + "among; space". First cited to a text from 984. The kanji spelling is cited earlier in a kanbun passage in the Shoku Nihongi of 756, listed in some references with the reading jinkan. However, the extant copies of this work that include phonetic guides are centuries younger than this first date, raising the…
human, human being · fellow, guy · human world, human society
köken: Sino-Korean word from 人間 (“human world”). In the hangul script, first attested in the Beonyeok Bak Tongsa (飜譯朴通事 / 번역박통사), before 1517, as Middle Korean ᅀᅵᆫ간 (Yale: zinkan). The most common modern sense of "human being" is an orthographic borrowing from Japanese 人間(にんげん) (ningen).