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Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Arabic مَعْنًى (maʕnan).
Noun
معنا • (mana)
- meaning, sense
- motive
- spirit, soul, essence, ideal
- dream, vision
Descendants
Further reading
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “mana”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mana¹”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 3, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3043
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “معنا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1196b