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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish mañana.
Pronunciation
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:“[With] 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.”
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Asturian
Etymology
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *māneāna, from Latin māne.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /maˈɲana/,
- Rhymes: -ana
- Hyphenation: ma‧ña‧na
Adverb
mañana
- tomorrow
Noun
mañana f (plural mañanes)
- morning
Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish mañana or mannana (literally “tomorrow morning”), from Vulgar Latin *māneāna, from Latin māne, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂-. Compare Portuguese manhã.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /maˈɲana/
- Rhymes: -ana
- Syllabification: ma‧ña‧na
Adverb
mañana
- tomorrow
- Synonym: (obsolete) cras
- pasado mañana ― the day after tomorrow
- mañana por la mañana ― tomorrow morning
- soon, shortly
- Synonyms: pronto, en breve
Noun
mañana f (plural mañanas)
- the morning
- Synonym: matino
- Hyponym: madrugada
- las ocho de la mañana ― eight in the morning
Él se levanta por las mañanas.- He gets up in the mornings.
Noun
mañana m (plural mañanas)
- the near future; tomorrow
- en un día del mañana ― someday in the near future
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