maña

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mana"

Asturian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *mania (“manual skill”), from Latin manus (“hand”).

Noun

maña f (plural mañes)

1. skill

Crimean Tatar

Pronoun

maña

1. to me

Galician

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *mania (“manual skill”), from Latin manus (“hand”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmaɲɐ]

Noun

maña f (plural mañas)

1. skill, aptitude

   Synonyms: destreza, habelencia, habilidade, xeito

2. (archaic) way, manner

   Synonyms: maneira, modo

3. bad habit, vice, mania

   Synonyms: vezo, vicio

   • 19th century, folk song:

     Os dentes d'a miña dòna
     mòrdenme, cando lle rifo.
     Hèilles de pasa-l-a lima
     por s'esa maña lle quito.

     My wife's teeth
     bite me when I tell her off.
     I'll file them
     in case this vice I remove from her.

References

• “manna” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “maña” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “manna” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “maña” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “maña” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “maña” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “maña” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Salar

Pronoun

maña

1. to me (dative of men)

References

• Tenishev, Edhem (1976) “maña”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow
• Ma, Chengjun, Han, Lianye, Ma, Weisheng (December 2010) “maña”, in 米娜瓦尔 艾比布拉 (Minavar Abibra), editor, 撒维汉词典 (Sāwéihàncídiǎn) [Salar-Uyghur-Chinese dictionary], 1st edition, Beijing, →ISBN, page 362

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɲa/ [ˈma.ɲa]
• Rhymes: -aɲa
• Syllabification: ma‧ña

Etymology 1

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *mania (“manual skill”), from Latin manus (“hand”). The sense of "mania" may have been influenced by manía, from the (unrelated) Latin mania. Compare Portuguese manha.

Noun

maña f (plural mañas)

1. skill, aptitude, knack

   Synonyms: destreza, habilidad, talento

2. trick (something designed to fool)
3. (Latin America) bad habit, vice, mania

   Synonyms: vicio, resabio, manía

4. (Latin America) bad temper, ill humor

   Synonym: cólera

Derived terms

• amañar
• artimaña

 

Related terms

• mañoso

 

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

maña

1. feminine singular of maño

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

maña f (plural mañas)

1. female equivalent of maño

Adjective

maña

1. feminine singular of maño

Further reading

• “maña”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014