mañana

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English[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Spanish mañana.

Pronunciation[edit]

Adverb[edit]

mañana (not comparable)

  1. (US, in Spanish-speaking contexts) Tomorrow.
  2. (humorous) Some unspecified time in the future.
    The plumber said he would come tomorrow. But I think he will probably be here mañana.
    • 1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 13, in On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC, part 1:
      He swore he was coming to New York to join me. I pictured him in New York, putting off everything till manana.
    • 1978, “Dirty Weekend”, in Blondes Have More Fun, performed by Rod Stewart:
      Oh, my sweet Diana, I can't wait for the manana / There's a hotel down in Mexico just made for two
    • 2015 July 7, Ian Traynor, Larry Elliott, quoting Dalia Grybauskaitė, “Greece given days to agree bailout deal or face banking collapse and euro exit”, in The Guardian‎[1]:
      “[With][sic] the Greek government it is every time ‘mañana’,” said Lithuania’s president, Dalia Grybauskaitė, one of the Greek government’s harshest critics. “It can always be ‘mañana’ every day.”

Derived terms[edit]

Translations[edit]

tomorrow — see tomorrow

Asturian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *māneāna, from Latin māne.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /maˈɲana/, [maˈɲa.na]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ana
  • Hyphenation: ma‧ña‧na

Adverb[edit]

mañana

  1. tomorrow

Noun[edit]

mañana f (plural mañanes)

  1. morning

Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Old Spanish mañana or mannana (literally “tomorrow morning”), from Vulgar Latin *māneāna, from Latin māne, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂-. Compare Portuguese manhã.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /maˈɲana/ [maˈɲa.na]
  • Rhymes: -ana
  • Syllabification: ma‧ña‧na

Adverb[edit]

mañana

  1. tomorrow
    Synonym: (obsolete) cras
    pasado mañana ― the day after tomorrow
    mañana por la mañana ― tomorrow morning
  2. soon, shortly
    Synonyms: pronto, en breve

Noun[edit]

mañana f (plural mañanas)

  1. the morning
    Synonym: matino
    Hyponym: madrugada
    las ocho de la mañana ― eight in the morning
    Él se levanta por las mañanas.
    He gets up in the mornings.

Noun[edit]

mañana m (plural mañanas)

  1. the near future; tomorrow
    en un día del mañana ― someday in the near future

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Descendants[edit]

  • Chavacano: mañana

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