Strong's Definition
from 4100; literally, a whatness (so to speak), i.e. manna (so called from the question about it)
KJV Usage: manna
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
מָן (man) — manna. 1) manna 1a) the bread from Heaven that fed the Israelites for 40 years of wilderness wanderings
מָן (man) — What?. 'What is it?' Another spelling of mah (מָה "what?" H4100)
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
noun m
Food
manna = substance described as falling from heaven to feed the Israelites in the desert, sometimes identified with the honeylike liquid dropping from tamarisk trees; its name is associated with the interrogative pronoun meaning "what (is it)?"
EXO 16:31 · EXO 16:33 · EXO 16:35 · EXO 16:35 · NUM 11:6 · NUM 11:7 · NUM 11:9 · DEU 8:3 · DEU 8:16 · JOS 5:12 · JOS 5:12 · NEH 9:20 · PSA 78:24
inter.pron
Object Referents
what? = a reference to an unknown object; normally used with the purpose of identifying it
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
מָן n.m. manna base
מָן in Ex 16:15 (with reference to the manna), most prob. ‘What is it?’ the question being intended as a popular etym. of מָן ‘manna’ ref