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Pronunciation
Noun
manako f (Note: the form after a determiner is mana)
- meat
Japanese
Romanization
manako
- Rōmaji transcription of まなこ
Maori
Etymology
From Proto-Polynesian *manako (compare with Rarotongan manako “to think, to consider”, Tahitian manaʻo “to think, to reflect”, Tongan manako “to desire”)
Verb
manako (passive manakohia or manakotia)
- to long for, to yearn
- to miss
- to desire, to want
- to like
Noun
manako
- desire, wish, want
- longing, yearning
- anxiety
Derived terms
References
- ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 204
- ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “manako”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559
Further reading
- Williams, Herbert William (1917) “manako”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 201
- “manako” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.