manicure

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₂-der.

Proto-Italic *manus

Latin manus

Proto-Italic *kʷoizā

Latin cūra

French manucurebor.

English manicure

From French manucure.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmæ.nɪ.kjʊɹ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

manicure (plural manicures)

1. A cosmetic treatment for the fingernails.
2. (dated) A manicurist.

Descendants

• → Japanese: マニキュア
• → Korean: 매니큐어 (maenikyueo)

Translations

cosmetic treatment for the fingernails

• Arabic: مَانِيكِير m (manikēr), (beauty treatment for hands) تَجْمِيل الْيَدَيْن m (tajmīl al-yadayn), (fingernails) تَجْمِيل الْأَظَافِر m (tajmīl al-ʔaẓāfir)

  Hijazi Arabic: مَنِكير m (manikēr)

• Azerbaijani: manikür
• Belarusian: манікю́р m (manikjúr)
• Bulgarian: маникю́р (bg) m (manikjúr)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 修甲 (sau¹ gaap³)

  Mandarin: 修指甲 (zh) (xiūzhǐjia), 修指 (xiūzhǐ)

• Czech: manikúra f
• Estonian: maniküür
• Finnish: manikyyri (fi)
• French: manucure (fr) f
• German: Maniküre (de) f
• Hungarian: manikűr (hu)
• Japanese: マニキュア (ja) (manikyua)
• Kazakh: маникюр (manıykyüwr)
• Korean: 매니큐어 (ko) (maenikyueo), 손톱물감 (sontommulgam) (North Korea)
• Latvian: manikīrs m
• Lithuanian: manikiūras m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: manikyr m

  Nynorsk: manikyr m

• Persian: مانیکور (fa) (mânikur)
• Polish: manicure (pl) m, manikiur (pl) m
• Portuguese: manicure (pt) f, manicura (pt) f
• Russian: маникю́р (ru) m (manikjúr)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: маникир m

  Latin: manikir (sh) m

• Slovak: manikúra f
• Spanish: manicura (es) f, maniquiur m or f (Latin America), manicure m or f (Americas), manicur m (Andes), maniquiú m (United States)
• Swedish: manikyr (sv) c
• Turkish: manikür (tr)
• Ukrainian: манікю́р m (manikjúr)
• Vietnamese: sửa móng tay

Verb

manicure (third-person singular simple present manicures, present participle manicuring, simple past and past participle manicured)

1. (transitive) To apply such a treatment to the hands.
2. (transitive, figurative) To polish or trim something very finely or evenly.

Translations

Translations

• German: maniküren (de)

Derived terms

• French manicure
• manicurer
• manicurism
• manicurist

See also

• pedicure

Anagrams

• neuramic

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Verb

manicure

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of manicuren

French

Noun

manicure m or f (plural manicures)

1. alternative spelling of manucure

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.niˈku.re/
• Rhymes: -ure
• Hyphenation: ma‧ni‧cù‧re

Noun

manicure f (invariable)

1. manicure
2. manicurist

   Synonym: manicurista

Anagrams

• cumarine, numerica

Polish

Alternative forms

• manikiur

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French manicure.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.ɲiˈkir/, /ma.ɲiˈkjur/, /maˈɲi.kjur/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ir, -ur, -ikjur
• Syllabification: ma‧ni‧cure

Noun

manicure m inan

1. manicure (cosmetic treatment for the fingernails)

Declension

Declension of manicure

	singular	plural
nominative	manicure	manicure'y
genitive	manicure'u	manicure'ów
dative	manicure'owi	manicure'om
accusative	manicure	manicure'y
instrumental	manicure'em	manicure'ami
locative	manicurze	manicure'ach
vocative	manicurze	manicure'y

Derived terms

nouns

• manicurzysta
• manicurzystka

Further reading

• “manicure”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “manicure”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• manicura

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₂-der.

Proto-Italic *manus

Latin manus

Proto-Italic *kʷoizā

Latin cūra

French manucurebor.

Portuguese manicure

Borrowed from French manucure.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ma.niˈku.ɾi/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mɐ.niˈku.ɾɨ/

Noun

manicure f (plural manicures)

1. manicure (cosmetic treatment for the fingernails)

   Synonym: manicura

Noun

manicure m or f by sense (plural manicures)

1. manicurist (person who performs manicures)

   Synonym: manicuro

Further reading

• “manicure”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₂-der.

Proto-Italic *manus

Latin manus

Proto-Italic *kʷoizā

Latin cūra

French manucurebor.

English manicurebor.

French manicurebor.

Spanish manicure

Borrowed from English manicure or French manicure.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maniˈkuɾe/ [ma.niˈku.ɾe]
  • Rhymes: -uɾe
  • Syllabification: ma‧ni‧cu‧re
• IPA^(key): /maniˈkjuɾ/ [ma.niˈkjuɾ]
  • Rhymes: -uɾ
• IPA^(key): /ˈmanikjuɾ/ [ˈma.ni.kjuɾ]
  • Rhymes: -anikjuɾ

Noun

manicure m or f same meaning (plural manicures)

1. (Latin America) manicure

   Alternative forms: manicura, maniquiur, manicur, maniquiú

   Coordinate term: pedicure

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Noun

manicure m or f by sense (plural manicures)

1. (Latin America) alternative form of manicuro

Further reading

• “manicure”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010