Manila

See also: Appendix:Variations of "manila"

English

Alternative forms

• Maynila (nonstandard)
• May-nilad (historical, based on an antiquarian and inaccurate etymology)
• Manilla (archaic, historical, misspelling)

Etymology

From Spanish Manila, from Tagalog Maynila, from may (“there is”) +‎ nila (“indigo”), Tagalog nila from Sanskrit नील (nīla).

Pronunciation

• (Philippines) IPA^(key): /mɐˈni.lɐ/

  • Audio (Philippines):

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• (UK, US, Canada) IPA^(key): /məˈnɪl.ə/

  • Audio (General American):

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  • Audio (Canada):

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• Hyphenation: ma‧ni‧la
• Rhymes: -ɪlə

Proper noun

Manila

2. The capital city of the Philippines; the regional capital of Metro Manila, in the island of Luzon.

   Meronyms: Binondo, Ermita, Intramuros, Malate, Paco, Pandacan, Port Area, Quiapo, Sampaloc, San Andres, San Miguel, San Nicolas, Santa Ana, Santa Cruz, Santa Mesa, Tondo — districts of Manila

   • 2007, Ronald Findlay, Kevin O'Rourke, Power and Plenty‎^[1], Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 173:

     Chinese traders, mostly from the southern ports of Amoy (Hsia-men) and Canton, took raw silk, fabrics, and apparel to Manila, where these cargoes were sold for silver and carried back for sale in the New World.

   • 2022 December 8, Marc Jayson Cayabyab, “PNR suspends trips due to earthquake”, in The Philippine Star‎^[2], archived from the original on 8 December 2022:

     PNR trips were suspended at past 1 p.m. after the temblor struck Camarines Norte, but was felt in the city of Manila at Intensity 3.

3. (loosely) Metro Manila, the National Capital Region (NCR).
4. (loosely) the entirety of Luzon.
5. (figuratively) The national government or administrative authority of the Philippines.
6. A small town, the county seat of Daggett County, Utah, United States.
7. A census-designated place in Humboldt County, California, United States.
8. A city in Mississippi County, Arkansas, United States.

Usage notes

• Within the Philippines, the colloquial meaning of "Manila" depends on the region:
  • For people in and around Metro Manila, "Manila" specifically means the City of Manila.
  • For people further away from Metro Manila (i.e. in North Luzon and Visayas), "Manila" means the entire Metro Manila.
  • For people even further away (i.e. in Mindanao), "Manila" means the entirety of Luzon.

Derived terms

• manila
• Manila cheroot
• Manila cigar
• manila envelope
• manila folder
• Manila hemp
• manila paper
• New Manila

Translations

capital of the Philippines

• Afrikaans: Manila
• Albanian: Manila f
• Amharic: ማኒላ (manila)
• Arabic: مَانِيلَا f (manīlā)
• Armenian: Մանիլա (Manila)
• Asturian: Manila (ast)
• Azerbaijani: Manila
• Basque: Manila
• Belarusian: Мані́ла f (Maníla), Мані́ля f (Manílja)
• Bengali: ম্যানিলা (mênila)
• Bikol Central: Manila (bcl)
• Bulgarian: Мани́ла f (Maníla)
• Burmese: မနီလာမြို့ (ma.nilamrui.)
• Catalan: Manila
• Cebuano: Manila
• Chavacano: Manila
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 馬尼拉 / 马尼拉 (maa⁵ nei⁴ laai¹)

  Hokkien: 馬尼拉 / 马尼拉 (Má-nî-la / Má-ní-la / Ma-ni-la), 岷尼拉 (Bîn-nî-la), 岷里拉 (Bîn-lí-la / Bīn-ní-la̍p)

  Mandarin: 馬尼拉 / 马尼拉 (zh) (Mǎnílā), 岷埠 (Mínbù) (obsolete)

• Czech: Manila (cs) f
• Danish: Manila (da) n
• Dutch: Manilla (nl) n
• Esperanto: Manilo (eo)
• Estonian: Manila (et)
• Farefare: Manila
• Finnish: Manila (fi)
• French: Manille (fr) f
• Galician: Manila (gl)
• Georgian: მანილა (ka) (manila)
• German: Manila (de) n
• Greek: Μανίλα (el) f (Maníla)
• Hebrew: מָנִילָה (he) f (manila)
• Hindi: मनीला m (manīlā)
• Hungarian: Manila (hu)
• Icelandic: Maníla
• Ilocano: Manila
• Indonesian: Manila
• Irish: Mainile f
• Italian: Manila (it) f
• Japanese: マニラ (ja) (Manira)
• Kannada: ಮನಿಲ (manila)
• Kapampangan: Menila
• Kazakh: Манила (Manila)
• Khmer: ម៉ានីល (km) (maaniil)
• Korean: 마닐라 (ko) (Manilla)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: مانیلا (manîla)

  Northern Kurdish: Manila

• Kyrgyz: Манила (Manila)
• Lao: ມະນີລາ (ma nī lā), ມານິລາ (mā ni lā)
• Latvian: Manila f
• Lithuanian: Manila (lt) f
• Macedonian: Манила f (Manila)
• Malay: Manila
• Malayalam: മനില (manila)
• Maltese: Manila f
• Maori: Manira
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Манила (mn) (Manila)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Manila

• Pashto: مانيلا f (mānilã)
• Persian: مانیل (fa) (mânil)
• Polish: Manila (pl) f
• Portuguese: Manila (pt) f
• Romanian: Manila (ro)
• Russian: Мани́ла (ru) f (Maníla)
• Sambal: Ibali f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ма̏нила f

  Roman: Mȁnila (sh) f

• Sinhalese: මැනිලා (mænilā)
• Slovak: Manila (sk) f
• Slovene: Manila f
• Spanish: Manila (es) f
• Swedish: Manila (sv) n
• Tagalog: Maynila
• Tajik: Манила (tg) (Manila)
• Tamil: மணிலா (maṇilā)
• Tatar: Манила (Manila)
• Telugu: మనీలా (manīlā)
• Thai: มะนิลา (th) (má-ní-laa)
• Tibetan: མ་ནི་ལ (ma ni la)
• Turkish: Manila (tr)
• Turkmen: Manila
• Ukrainian: Мані́ла f (Maníla), Мані́ля f (Manílja)
• Urdu: منیلا m (manīlā)
• Uyghur: مانىلا (manila)
• Uzbek: Manila
• Vietnamese: Manila (vi), Ma Ní, Mã Ni La
• Yiddish: מאַנילאַ n (manila)

Noun

Manila (plural Manilas)

1. Venerupis philippinarum; a Pacific clam.
2. Alternative form of manila (“kind of cheroot”).

Anagrams

• maalin, Almain, lamian, aminal, lamina, al-Amin, Milana, Alamin, animal, Animal, almain, Malian

Afrikaans

Proper noun

Manila

1. Manila (the capital city of the Philippines; the regional capital of Metro Manila, in the island of Luzon)

Related terms

• Manileen
• Manileens

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Manila, from Tagalog Maynila.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maˈnila/ [mɐˈn̪i.l̪ɐ]
• IPA^(key): /maˈnilaʔ/ [mɐˈn̪i.l̪ɐʔ]
• Hyphenation: Ma‧ni‧la

Proper noun

Manila or Manilà (Badlit spelling ᜋᜈᜒᜎ)

1. Manila (the capital city of the Philippines; the regional capital of Metro Manila, in the island of Luzon)
2. (loosely) Metro Manila, National Capital Region (a region and metropolitan area in the Philippines)
3. (historical) Manila (a former province of the Philippines)
4. (historical) Manila (the capital city of Spanish-era Philippines; modern Intramuros)

Derived terms

• Manilan-on

Related terms

• Manilenyo

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmanɪla]

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Manila f (relational adjective manilský)

1. Manila (the capital city of the Philippines; the regional capital of Metro Manila, in the island of Luzon)

Declension

Declension of Manila (sg-only hard feminine)

	singular
nominative	Manila
genitive	Manily
dative	Manile
accusative	Manilu
vocative	Manilo
locative	Manile
instrumental	Manilou

Further reading

• “Manila”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Manila, from Tagalog Maynila, from may (“there is”) +‎ nila (“indigo”), Tagalog nila from Sanskrit नील (nīla).

Proper noun

Manila n (proper noun, genitive Manilas or (optionally with an article) Manila)

1. Manila (the capital city of the Philippines; the regional capital of Metro Manila, in the island of Luzon)

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch Manilla.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /maˈnila/ [maˈni.la]
• Rhymes: -ila
• Syllabification: Ma‧ni‧la

Proper noun

Manila

1. Manila (the capital of the Philippines)

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Manila, from Tagalog Maynila, from may (“there is”) +‎ nila (“indigo”), Tagalog nila from Sanskrit नील (nīla).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maˈni.la/
• Rhymes: -ila
• Hyphenation: Ma‧nì‧la

Proper noun

Manila f

1. Manila (the capital city of the Philippines; the regional capital of Metro Manila, in the island of Luzon)

Anagrams

• lamina, manali

Polish

Manila

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Manila.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maˈɲi.la/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ila
• Syllabification: Ma‧ni‧la
• Homophone: manila

Proper noun

Manila f (related adjective manilski)

1. Manila (the capital city of the Philippines)

Declension

Declension of Manila

	singular
nominative	Manila
genitive	Manili
dative	Manili
accusative	Manilę
instrumental	Manilą
locative	Manili
vocative	Manilo

Derived terms

nouns

• manila
• manilczyk
• manilka

Related terms

adjective

• manilowy

Further reading

• Manila in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Manila in PWN's encyclopedia

Portuguese

Etymology

From Spanish Manila, from Tagalog Maynila, from may (“there is”) +‎ nila (“indigo”), Tagalog nila from Sanskrit नील (nīla).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /maˈni.lɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /maˈni.lɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /maˈni.la/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mɐˈni.lɐ/

• Hyphenation: Ma‧ni‧la

Proper noun

Manila ?

1. Manila (the capital city of the Philippines; the regional capital of Metro Manila, in the island of Luzon)

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mânila/
• Hyphenation: Ma‧ni‧la

Proper noun

Mȁnila f (Cyrillic spelling Ма̏нила)

1. Manila (the capital city of the Philippines; the regional capital of Metro Manila, in the island of Luzon)

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmaɲila]

Proper noun

Manila f (genitive singular Manily, declension pattern of žena)

1. Manila (the capital city of the Philippines; the regional capital of Metro Manila, in the island of Luzon)

References

• “Manila”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /manìːla/

Proper noun

Maníla f

1. Manila (the capital city of the Philippines; the regional capital of Metro Manila, in the island of Luzon)

Declension

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem
nominative	Maníla
genitive	Maníle
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	Maníla
genitive (rodȋlnik)	Maníle
dative (dajȃlnik)	Maníli
accusative (tožȋlnik)	Manílo
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	Maníli
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	Manílo

Related terms

• Manílčan / Manílčanka
• manílski

References

• “Manila”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “Manila”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Tagalog Maynila, from may (“there is”) +‎ nila (“indigo”), Tagalog nila from Sanskrit नील (nīla).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maˈnila/ [maˈni.la]
• Rhymes: -ila
• Syllabification: Ma‧ni‧la

Proper noun

Manila f

1. Manila (the capital city of the Philippines; the regional capital of Metro Manila, in the island of Luzon)

Derived terms

• cáñamo de Manila

Descendants

• → Cantonese: 馬尼拉 / 马尼拉 (maa⁵ nei⁴ laai¹)
• ⇒ Chamorro: cha'kan manila, chotdan Manila
• → English: Manila
  • → Korean: 마닐라 (manilla)
• → French: Manille
• → Hokkien: 馬尼拉 / 马尼拉 (Má-nî-la), 岷里拉 (Bîn-lí-la), 岷尼拉 (Bîn-nî-la)
• → Ibaloi: Manida
• → Japanese: マニラ (Manira)
• → Mandarin: 馬尼拉 / 马尼拉 (Mǎnílā)
• → Tagalog: Manila

Further reading

• “Manila”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Manila, itself from Tagalog Maynila.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /maˈnila/ [mɐˈn̪iː.lɐ]
    • Rhymes: -ila
  • IPA^(key): /maˈnilaʔ/ [mɐˈn̪iː.lɐʔ] (influence from Maynila)
    • Rhymes: -ilaʔ
• Syllabification: Ma‧ni‧la

Proper noun

Manila (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜈᜒᜎ) (informal)

1. alternative form of Maynila

Related terms

• Kalakhang Maynila
• Kamaynilaan
• Manilense
• Manilenya
• Manilenyo

Descendants

• → Hokkien: 馬尼剌 / 马尼剌, 岷里納, 岷里刺, 岷唎喇, 民希臘 / 民希腊, 蠻哩喇 / 蛮哩喇, 呅哖膋 / 呅哖䒿 (obsolete)
• → Japanese: 馬尼剌 (Manira) (obsolete)
• → Mandarin: 馬尼剌 / 马尼剌 (Mǎnílà) (obsolete)

Further reading

• “Manila”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018.
• Santos, Vito C. (1978), Vicassan's Pilipino-English Dictionary, Revised edition (overall work in Tagalog and English), With an Introduction by Teodoro A. Agoncillo, Metro Manila: National Book Store, →ISBN, page 1172

Anagrams

• alamin, animal

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

• Ma-ni-la

Etymology

From English Manila.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [maː˧˧ ni˧˧ laː˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [maː˧˧ nɪj˧˧ laː˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [maː˧˧ nɪj˧˧ laː˧˧]
• Phonetic spelling: ma ni la

Proper noun

Manila

1. Manila (the capital of the Philippines)

   Synonym: Ma Ní