mañana

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English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mañana.

Pronunciation

Adverb

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.”

Translations


Asturian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *māneāna, from Latin māne.

Adverb

mañana

  1. tomorrow

Noun

mañana f (plural mañanes)

  1. morning

Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /maˈɲana/ [maˈɲa.na]

Adverb

mañana

  1. tomorrow
    pasado mañanathe day after tomorrow
    mañana por la mañanatomorrow morning
  2. soon, shortly

Noun

mañana f (plural mañanas)

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

Noun

mañana m (plural mañanas)

  1. the near future; tomorrow
    En un día del mañana.Some day in the near future.

Derived terms

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