The thirteenth letter of the English alphabet, representing the consonant sound /m/.

A written memorandum, report, or scholarly dissertation, especially in historical or diplomatic usage.

An Indigenous people and language of the Northeastern Woodlands, especially in eastern Canada.

A singular noun or adjective referring to a member of the Mi'kmaq people or to their language and culture.

A Tahitian term meaning a native or Indigenous person of Tahiti and the surrounding Society Islands.

A Hawaiian term for a person who traditionally embodies both masculine and feminine roles or qualities.

The Indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand, or their language.

An Arabic form of the name of the ninth-century physician and medical writer Yūḥannā ibn Māsawayh, known in Latin as Mesue.

An Arabic phrase meaning “the balance of truth,” also used as the title of a nineteenth-century Christian apologetic work.

A sacred image or physical representation of a Hindu deity used in worship.

The Indigenous name of the Musqueam people and their traditional territory around the lower Fraser River and present-day Vancouver, British Columbia.

A Sanskrit name for the fifth nakshatra, or lunar mansion, traditionally associated with the head of a deer.

An informal term for one’s mother.

An Icelandic name for bedstraw plants of the genus Galium, especially yellow bedstraw.

A school or tradition of Islamic jurisprudence, theology, or religious interpretation.

An object of worship or deity, especially in Islamic theological language.

A Muslim official authorized to perform or register marriages, especially in Egypt and other Arabic-speaking regions.

In Sufism and Islamic thought, spiritual knowledge or direct inner recognition of divine truth.

An Islamic ethical concept referring to what is recognized as good, right, or socially honorable.

An Arabic Islamic term meaning aid, kindness, or useful assistance, especially the everyday help people give one another.