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English
Noun
mani (plural manis )
( informal ) Clipping of manicure .
2006 March 16, Therese Beaupre, “The O.P.”, in Totally Spies! : Undercover , season 4, episode 4, spoken by Samantha “Sam” (Jennifer Hale ), Marathon Media , via Teletoon :You mean you actually found something more important than to you than a weekly mani ?
2009 January 12, “Dress for Success: Have a Ball at Dumbarton”, in Express Night Out :The nails need a mani , the dress is due for a dry cleaning miracle and those "special occasion cuff links" have gone missing.
See also
Anagrams
Iman , amin , NIMA , NAMI , Main , iman , main , mnai , Mina , mina , Naim , Mian , Amin
Big Nambas
Etymology
From English money .
Pronunciation
Noun
mani
money
Synonyms
References
Bikol Central
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish maní ( “ peanut ” ) .
Pronunciation
Hyphenation: ma‧ni
IPA (key ) : /maˈni/
Noun
maní
peanut
( slang ) clitoris
Buhi'non Bikol
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish maní ( “ peanut ” ) .
Noun
maní
peanut
Catalan
Pronunciation
Verb
mani
inflection of manar :
first / third-person singular present subjunctive
third-person singular imperative
Cebuano
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish maní ( “ peanut ” ) .
Pronunciation
Hyphenation: ma‧ni
IPA (key ) : /maˈni/
Noun
mani
peanut
Chavacano
Etymology
Inherited from Spanish maní .
Noun
maní
peanut
Classical Nahuatl
Pronunciation
Verb
mani
( intransitive ) To spread out , to extend .
( intransitive ) To cover a flat surface.
Synonyms
Cuyunon
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish maní ( “ peanut ” ) .
Noun
mani
peanut
Danish
Etymology
From Ancient Greek μανία ( manía ) .
Noun
mani c (singular definite manien , plural indefinite manier )
mania
obsession
Declension
References
Drehu
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium .)
Pronunciation
Noun
mani
rain
References
Tyron, D.T., Hackman, B. (1983 ) Solomon Islands languages: An internal classification . Cited in: "Dehu " in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R. , & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics . Evolutionary Bioinformatics , 4:271–283.
Leenhardt, M. (1946 ) Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie . Cited in: "ⁿDe’u " in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R. , & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics . Evolutionary Bioinformatics , 4:271–283.
Finnish
Etymology
From English money .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈmɑni/ ,
Rhymes: -ɑni
Syllabification(key ) : ma‧ni
Hyphenation(key ) : ma‧ni
Noun
mani ( colloquial )
money
Synonym: raha
Declension
Further reading
Anagrams
Garo
Etymology
The second element -ni is from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *nij ( “ aunt ” ) .
Noun
mani
paternal aunt
wife of uncle
mother-in-law
sister of mother-in-law
Synonyms
Higaonon
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish maní ( “ peanut ” ) .
Noun
mani
peanut
Hungarian
Etymology
From English money .[ 1]
Pronunciation
Noun
mani (plural manik )
( slang ) money
Declension
References
Ido
Pronunciation
Noun
mani
plural of mano
manes , ancestral spirits
Indonesian
Etymology
From Arabic مَنِي ( manī ) .
Pronunciation
Noun
mani (plural mani -mani )
ejaculate , sperm
Further reading
Iriga Bicolano
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish maní ( “ peanut ” ) .
Noun
maní
peanut
Italian
Etymology 1
Noun
mani f
plural of mano
giungere le mani ― to join one's hands together
Etymology 2
From Latin manes ( “ spirits of the dead ” ) .
Noun
mani m (invariable )
( Roman mythology ) manes
( literary ) the souls of the deceased , or of a single dead person
Anagrams
Kankanaey
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish maní ( “ peanut ” ) .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /maˈni/
Rhymes: -i
Syllabification: ma‧ni
Noun
maní
peanut
References
Morice Vanoverbergh (1933 ) “mani”, in A Dictionary of Lepanto Igorot or Kankanay. As it is spoken at Bauco (Linguistische Anthropos-Bibliothek; XII) , Mödling bei Wien, St. Gabriel, Österreich: Verlag der Internationalen Zeitschrift „Anthropos“, →OCLC , page 303
Allen, Larry (2021 ) “mani ”, in Kankanaey – English Dictionary , Summer Institute of Linguistics
Karao
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish maní ( “ peanut ” ) .
Noun
mani
peanut
Latin
Pronunciation
Adjective
mānī
dative / ablative masculine / feminine / neuter singular of mānis
References
“mani ”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879 ) A Latin Dictionary , Oxford: Clarendon Press
“mani ”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890 ), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities , London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Latvian
Pronoun
mani
me ; accusative singular of es
with me ; instrumental singular of es
Pronoun
mani
nominative / vocative plural masculine of mans
Verb
mani
inflection of manīt :
second-person singular present indicative
second-person singular imperative
Libon Bikol
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish maní ( “ peanut ” ) .
Noun
maní
peanut
Maranao
Noun
mani
sperm , semen
egg cell
Masbate Sorsogon
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish maní ( “ peanut ” ) .
Noun
maní
peanut
Masbatenyo
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish maní ( “ peanut ” ) .
Noun
maní
peanut
Masimasi
Noun
mani
bird
References
George W. Grace, Notes on the phonological history of the Austronesian languages of the Sarmi Coast , in Oceanic Linguistics (1971, 10:11-37)
Middle English
mane , magnie , maini , mainie , mange , manie , manige , maniȝ , many , meine , meni , menie , monei , moni , monie , moniȝ , mony , myny
Etymology
From Old English manig , from Proto-West Germanic *manag , from Proto-Germanic *managaz .
Pronunciation
Pronoun
mani
many
Descendants
References
Miraya Bikol
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish maní ( “ peanut ” ) .
Noun
maní
peanut
Miskito
Noun
mani
summer
year
Mo
Noun
mani
bird
References
George W. Grace, Notes on the phonological history of the Austronesian languages of the Sarmi Coast , in Oceanic Linguistics (1971, 10:11-37)
Ngarla
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /mani/
Verb
mani
climb
Declension
References
Westerlund, T. (2007). A grammatical sketch of Ngarla: A language of Western Australia . Uppsala University.
Northern Catanduanes Bicolano
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish maní ( “ peanut ” ) .
Noun
maní
peanut
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Ancient Greek μανία ( manía , “ madness ” ) .
Noun
mani m (definite singular manien , indefinite plural manier , definite plural maniene )
mania ( mental illness, or excessive enthusiasm )
References
“mani” in The Bokmål Dictionary .
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Ancient Greek μανία ( manía , “ madness ” ) .
Noun
mani m (definite singular manien , indefinite plural maniar , definite plural maniane )
mania ( mental illness, or excessive enthusiasm )
References
“mani” in The Nynorsk Dictionary .
Old Irish
manid ( before the indicative if there is no infixed pronoun )
Etymology
Univerbation of má ( “ if ” ) + ní ( “ not ” )
Pronunciation
Conjunction
mani
if …not , unless
For quotations using this term, see Citations:mani .
Usage notes
Takes the indicative when the following verb has a past or present meaning and the present subjunctive when the verb has a future meaning.
Further reading
Pitjantjatjara
Etymology
Borrowed from English money .
Pronunciation
Noun
mani
money
mani wiyangku ― free of charge
Polish
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈma.ɲi/
Rhymes: -aɲi
Syllabification: ma‧ni
Verb
mani
third-person singular present of manić
Southern Catanduanes Bicolano
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish maní ( “ peanut ” ) .
Noun
maní
peanut
Spanish
Etymology
Clipping of manifestación .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈmani/
Rhymes: -ani
Syllabification: ma‧ni
Noun
mani f (plural manis )
( colloquial ) protest
Swedish
Noun
mani c
mania
obsession
Declension
References
Tagalog
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish maní ( “ peanut ” ) , from Taíno .
Pronunciation
Noun
manî (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜈᜒ )
( botany ) peanut
( figurative , colloquial ) easy task
Synonyms: ( slang ) sisiw , ( slang ) tsiken
( anatomy , colloquial ) clitoris
Synonyms: tilin , ( colloquial ) tinggil
Derived terms
Further reading
“mani ”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph , Manila, 2018
Anagrams
Tok Pisin
Etymology
From English money .
Noun
mani
money
Turkish
Etymology 1
From Ottoman Turkish مانع ( mani' ) , from Arabic مَانِع ( māniʕ ) , from verb مَنَعَ ( manaʕa , “ to hinder ” ) .
Noun
mani (definite accusative manii , plural maniler )
Alternative spelling of mâni ( “ obstacle ” )
Etymology 2
From Ottoman Turkish مانی ( mani ) , from Arabic مَعْنًى ( maʕnan ) .
Noun
mani (definite accusative maniyi , uncountable )
poem , couplet , four liner
( dialectal ) always , everyday
Declension
Synonyms
References
Venetan
Noun
mani
plural of mato
Volapük
Noun
mani
accusative singular of man
Waray Sorsogon
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish maní ( “ peanut ” ) .
Noun
maní
peanut
West Albay Bikol
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish maní ( “ peanut ” ) .
Noun
maní
peanut
Woiwurrung
Adverb
mani
here is [ 1]
mani gawangik (here is my head)
See also
References
Yakan
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish maní ( “ peanut ” ) .
Noun
mani
peanut
Yogad
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish maní ( “ peanut ” ) .
Noun
maní
nut
Zia
Noun
mani
boy