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say it: HAY-muhn
haman is a noun meaning "(Old Testament) the minister of the Persian emperor who hated the Jews and was hanged for plotting to massacre them". It carries one recorded sense.
(Old Testament) the minister of the Persian emperor who hated the Jews and was hanged for plotting to massacre them
Old Testament
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for haman come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.