mañana
See also: manana
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ænə
Adverb
mañana (not comparable)
- (US, in Spanish-speaking contexts) Tomorrow.
- (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
tomorrow — see tomorrow
some time in the future
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Asturian
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *māneāna, from Latin māne.
Adverb
mañana
Noun
mañana f (plural mañanes)
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
Adverb
mañana
- tomorrow
- pasado mañana ― the day after tomorrow
- mañana por la mañana ― tomorrow morning
- soon, shortly
Noun
mañana f (plural mañanas)
- 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)
Derived terms
See also
Further reading
- “mañana”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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