mane

See also: Mane, mané, màne, mãne, måne, and -mane

English

Etymology

From Middle English mane, mayne, from Old English manu (“mane”), from Proto-Germanic *manō (“mane”), from Proto-Indo-European *mony-, *mon- (“neck”). Cognate with Dutch maan, manen (“mane”), German Mähne (“mane”), Swedish man (“horse's mane”), Icelandic mön (“mane”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: mān, IPA^(key): /meɪn/

• Audio (US)

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• Homophones: main, Maine
• Rhymes: -eɪn

Noun

mane (plural manes)

1. Longer hair growth on back of neck of an animal, especially a horse or lion
   • 1900, L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chapter 23

     Before they went to see Glinda, however, they were taken to a room of the Castle, where Dorothy washed her face and combed her hair, and the Lion shook the dust out of his mane, and the Scarecrow patted himself into his best shape, and the Woodman polished his tin and oiled his joints.

2. Long or thick hair of a person's head.

Translations

longer hair growth on back of neck of a horse

• Albanian: jele (sq) f
• Arabic: عُرْف‎‎ m (ʿurf)
• Armenian: բաշ (hy) (baš)
• Aromanian: coamã f
• Azerbaijani: yal
• Bashkir: ял (yal)
• Belarusian: гры́ва f (hrýva)
• Bengali: কেশর (keshôr)
• Bulgarian: гри́ва f (gríva)
• Burmese: မှင်ဆံ (my) (hmanghcam), လည်ဆံ (my) (lanyhcam)
• Catalan: crinera f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 馬鬃 (zh), 马鬃 (zh) (mǎzōng)

• Czech: hříva (cs) f
• Danish: manke (da) c, man (da) c
• Dutch: maan (nl) f
• Estonian: lakk
• Faroese: faks n, framfaks n, mon f
• Finnish: harja (fi)
• French: crinière (fr) f
• Georgian: ფაფარი (papari)
• German: Mähne (de) f
• Greek: χαίτη (el) f (chaíti)

  Ancient: λοφιά f (lophiá), χαίτη f (khaítē)

• Hebrew: רעמה‎‎ (he) f
• Hindi: याल (hi) (yāl), केसर (hi) (kesar)
• Hungarian: sörény (hu)
• Icelandic: makki (is) m, fax (is) n
• Italian: criniera (it) f
• Japanese: 鬣 (ja) (たてがみ, tategami)
• Kazakh: жал (kk) (jal)
• Khmer: សយ (km) (sɑɑy)
• Korean: 갈기 (ko) (galgi)
• Kyrgyz: жал (ky) (cal)
• Lao: ແຜງຄໍ (phǣng khǭ), ແຜງ (phǣng)
• Latgalian: krēpis
• Latvian: krēpes m

• Lithuanian: karčiai pl
• Macedonian: гри́ва f (gríva)
• Maori: makawe
• Mongolian: дэл (mn) (del)
• Navajo: atsiighaʼ
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: man (no) m

• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: грива f (griva)

• Old East Slavic: грива f (griva)
• Persian: یال‎‎ (fa) (yâl), فش‎‎ (fa) (faš), بش‎‎ (fa) (boš)
• Polish: grzywa (pl) f
• Portuguese: crina (pt) f
• Romanian: coamă (ro) f
• Russian: гри́ва (ru) f (gríva)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гри̏ва f

  Roman: grȉva (sh) f

• Slovak: hriva f
• Slovene: griva (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: griwa f

  Upper Sorbian: hriwa f

• Spanish: crin (es) f
• Swedish: man (sv) c
• Tajik: ёл (yol), фуш (fuš)
• Thai: สร้อย (sôi), แผงคอ (pɛ̌ɛng kɔɔ)
• Tibetan: ཟེ (ze)
• Turkish: yele (tr)
• Turkmen: ýal
• Ukrainian: гри́ва f (hrýva)
• Urdu: یال‎‎ (yāl)
• Uzbek: yol (uz)
• Vietnamese: bờm (vi)
• Walloon: caime (wa) f, crinire (wa) f
• White Hmong: please add this translation if you can
• Yiddish: גריווע‎‎ f (grive)

longer hair growth around head of male lions

• Arabic: عُرْف‎‎ m (ʿurf)
• Belarusian: гры́ва f (hrýva)
• Bulgarian: гри́ва f (gríva)
• Catalan: crinera f, cabellera f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 獅子的鬃毛, 狮子的鬃毛 (shīzi de zōngmáo), 獅鬣, 狮鬣 (shī liè)

• Czech: hříva (cs) f
• Danish: manke (da) c
• Dutch: maan (nl) f
• Esperanto: kolharo
• Finnish: harja (fi)
• French: crinière (fr) f
• Georgian: ფაფარი (papari)
• German: Mähne (de) f
• Hebrew: רעמה‎‎ (he) f (re'amá)
• Hungarian: sörény (hu)
• Italian: criniera (it) f
• Japanese: 鬣 (ja) (たてがみ, tategami)
• Macedonian: гри́ва f (gríva)
• Malay: surai

• Maori: makawe, huruhuru kakī
• Navajo: atsiighaʼ
• Norwegian: man (no) m
• Persian: یال‎‎ (fa) (yâl)
• Polish: grzywa (pl) f
• Portuguese: juba (pt) f
• Romanian: coamă (ro) f
• Russian: гри́ва (ru) f (gríva)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гри̏ва f

  Roman: grȉva (sh) f

• Slovak: hriva f
• Slovene: griva (sl) f
• Spanish: melena (es) f
• Swedish: man (sv) c
• Telugu: జూలు (te) (jūlu)
• Ukrainian: гри́ва f (hrýva)
• Vietnamese: bờm (vi)
• Welsh: mwng (cy)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Italian: ^{(please verify)} chioma f, ^{(please verify)} criniera f
• Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} man m

• Welsh: ^{(please verify)} mwng m

Anagrams

• -nema, Amen, Eman, Enma, MEAN, MENA, Mena, NAmE, NEMA, NMEA, amen, mean, mnae, name, namé, neam, ñame

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Afrikaans

Noun

mane

1. plural of maan

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Danish

Etymology

From Middle Low German manen (“remind”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maːnə/, [ˈmæːnə], [ˈmæːn̩]

Verb

mane (imperative man, infinitive at mane, present tense maner, past tense manede, perfect tense har manet)

1. admonish, urge
2. lay, exorcise
3. conjure

Synonyms

• (admonish): formane
• (conjure): fremmane, besværge

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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Verb

mane

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of manen

Anagrams

• amen, name

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Esperanto

Etymology

mano (“hand”) +‎ -e

Adverb

mane

1. by hand

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Japanese

Romanization

mane

1. Rōmaji transcription of まね

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *meh₂- (“to ripen, to mature”), hence matins and mature.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmaː.ne/, [ˈmaː.nɛ]

Adverb

māne (not comparable)

1. (early) in the morning

Descendants

• Aromanian: mãni
• Asturian: mañana
• Catalan: demà
• Dalmatian: desmun
• French: demain
• Galician: mañá, domá
• Istriot: deimàn
• Italian: domani

• Ladin: doman
• Portuguese: amanhã
• Romanian: mâine
• Romansch: damaun
• Sicilian: dumani
• Spanish: mañana
• Venetian: doman

Noun

māne n (indeclinable)

1. morning

Derived terms

• *maneana (Vulgar Latin)

Adjective

māne

1. nominative neuter singular of mānis
2. accusative neuter singular of mānis
3. vocative neuter singular of mānis

Verb

manē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of maneō

References

• mane in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mane in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mane in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• mane in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• mane in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

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Lithuanian

Pronoun

mane

1. (first-person singular) accusative form of aš.

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Middle Dutch

Etymology 1

From Old Dutch *māno, from Proto-Germanic *mēnô, from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s.

Noun

mâne f, m

1. moon
2. moonshine, moonlight

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: maan
• Limburgish: maon
• West Flemish: moane

Etymology 2

From Old Dutch *mana, from Proto-Germanic *manō.

Noun

māne f

1. (usually in the plural) mane

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: maan

Further reading

• “mane (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “mane (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “mane (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929
• “mane (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

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Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse máni, from Proto-Germanic *mēnô.

Noun

māne m

1. moon
2. month

Declension

Declension of māne (an-stem)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	māne	mānen	mānar	mānarnir
accusative	māna	mānan	māna	mānana
dative	māna	mānanom	mānom	mānonom
genitive	māna	mānans	māna	mānanna

Descendants

• Swedish: måne

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Portuguese

Verb

mane

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of manar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of manar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of manar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of manar

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Spanish

Verb

mane

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of manar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of manar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of manar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of manar.

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Tarantino

Alternative forms

• màne

Noun

mane

1. hand

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Tetum

Noun

mane

1. man, specifically adult male human

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Volapük

Noun

mane

1. dative singular of man