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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 is pronounced /ˈheɪmən/ — HAY-muhn. 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.