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I think it's closer to "stand-up" or "decent" than honorable, but yes.

(The neutral version would be מאַן, which literally means man or husband.)

Umm... מאָן means poppyseed in Yiddish (and Purim is around the corner, which means המן־טאַשן with מאָן filling!)

I wrote מאַן, not מאָן :-).

(For those wondering: “man” in Yiddish looks a lot like “mohn”, which is the same as German mohn.)

what's that phonetically?

I believe it's pronounced very similar to the English word "man" (with the vowel being a little farther back. Halfway to "mon" as in "pokemon")

Yep, that’s correct. It’s a long a, similar to ā in Latin.