manna

• (possibly archaic) mana

From Middle English, from Old English, from Late Latin manna, from Ancient Greek μάννα (mánna), from Hebrew מן (mān, “'manna”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmænə/

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• Rhymes: -ænə
• Homophones: manner, manor (non-rhotic)

manna (countable and uncountable, plural mannas)

1. (biblical) Food miraculously produced for the Israelites in the desert in the book of Exodus.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible,  (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Exodus 16:14-15:

     And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground. And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.

   • 1669, John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China‎, London: John Macock, →OCLC, page 242:

     In the juriſdiction of Huquang there are ſeveral places where they gather up great store of Manna, which the Natives take for a Frozen Dew.

   • 1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page iv:

     The leaves of the foreſt were loaded with manna, pure amber dropped from every bough, honey diſtilled from the rifted rock, and the humming bee, drunk with joy, ſtrayed from flower to flower, forgetful of his burſting cells.

2. (by extension) Any boon which comes into one's hands by good luck.
   • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :

     Fair ladies, you drop manna in the way / Of starved people.

   • 2010, Giancarlo Gandolfo, Economic Dynamics, 4th edition, Springer, page 197f:

     The introduction of technical progress in this model can be made in a very simple manner if we assume that it is of the ‘disembodied’ type, that is, something like manna that falls from heaven on all capital goods, old and new.

3. The sugary sap of the manna gum tree which oozes out from holes drilled by insects and falls to the ground around the tree.
   • 1966, Bill Beatty, Tales of Old Australia, National Distributors, →ISBN, page 14, discussing old Australian foods

     The icing on the cake was made from manna, which was gathered under the manna gums. Manna mixed with milk made a splendid icing.

• manna on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Amann, Annam

From Late Latin manna, from Ancient Greek μάννα (mánna), from Hebrew מן (mān, “'manna”).

manna n (genitive singular manna, uncountable)

1. manna
2. (botany) fruit of an elm tree

• mannaask

From Late Latin manna, from Ancient Greek μάννα (mánna), from Biblical Hebrew מן (mān, “'manna”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑnːɑ/,
• Rhymes: -ɑnːɑ
• Syllabification^(key): man‧na
• Hyphenation^(key): man‧na

manna

1. (biblical) manna (food substance)
2. manna (any good thing)
3. semolina

• (any good thing): nanna (especially food)

• “manna”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja ‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• manan

manna

1. romanization of 𐌼𐌰𐌽𐌽𐌰

• (Nuuk) IPA^(key): /manna/,

manna

1. (demonstrative) proximal pronoun; this here, he/she/it here.
   • 2001 Louise Richter, for the Greenlandic Directorate of Culture, Education, Research and Ecclesiastical Affairs/Inerisaavik: "Kisitsineq/matematikki: Misilitsinnerit, naliliineq, atuartitsineq", p. 54

     Ukioq manna annertusisamik misilitsinnermi akissutit 431-iupput.

     This year, there were 431 answers to the expanded test.

• una (“that nearby”)
• innga (“that yonder”)
• kanna (“that down a medial distance”)
• sanna (“that down a long distance”)
• pinnga (“that up a medial distance”)
• panna (“that up a long distance”)
• qanna (“that in there/out there”)
• anna (“that in the north”)
• kinnga (“that in the south/that outside”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈmanːa/
• Rhymes: -anːa

manna (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative mannaði, supine mannað)

1. to man

manna

1. indefinite genitive plural of maður

From Old Norse manna, from Late Latin manna.

manna n (genitive singular manna, no plural)

1. manna

Borrowed from Russian манна (manna) (cf. the derived манка (manka), манный (mannyj)), ultimately from Ancient Greek μάννα (mánna).

Related to Finnish manna and Estonian manna.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑnːɑ/,
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑnːɑ/,
• Rhymes: -ɑnː, -ɑnːɑ
• Hyphenation: man‧na

manna

1. semolina

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 296

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

manna

Wikipedia ^it

• IPA^(key): /ˈman.na/
• Rhymes: -anna
• Hyphenation: màn‧na

From Late Latin manna, from Ancient Greek μάννα (mánna), from Hebrew מן (mān, “'manna”).

manna f (plural manne)

1. manna (all senses)

• albero della manna
• frassino da manna
• manneto

manna f (plural manne)

1. sheaf
2. (heraldry) garb

• covone

• Annam

manna

1. (interrogative) why

From Ancient Greek μάννα (mánna), from Biblical Hebrew מן (man).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key):
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key):

manna f (genitive mannae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) manna

First-declension noun.

• → Old English:
  • Middle English:
    • English: manna
• → Italian: manna (semi-learned)
• → Polish: manna (learned)
• → Sicilian: manna (semi-learned)

• “manna”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• manna in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

From Ancient Greek μάννα (mánna), from Hebrew מן (mān, “'manna”).

manna m (definite singular mannaen, indefinite plural mannaer or mannaar, definite plural mannaene or mannaane)

1. (biblical) manna
2. a sweetish tree sap, especially of the manna ash

• mannaask m
• mannalav n

From mann (“man”) +‎ -a.

• manne (e- and split infinitives)

manna (present tense mannar, past tense manna, past participle manna, passive infinitive mannast, present participle mannande, imperative manna/mann)

1. to man

• mannast

• “manna” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• namna

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑn.nɑ/

From Proto-West Germanic *mann, from Proto-Germanic *mann-.

manna m

1. mann

Weak:

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “manna”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

From Late Latin manna, from Ancient Greek μάννα (mánna), from Hebrew מן (mān, “'manna”).

manna m

1. manna (food miraculously produced for the Israelites in the desert in the book of Exodus)

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “manna”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

manna

1. genitive plural of mann

manna

1. genitive plural of maðr

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

manna

Wikipedia ^pl

Learned borrowing from Late Latin manna.

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -anna
• Syllabification: man‧na

manna f (related adjective manniany or mannowy)

1. farina (fine flour or meal made from cereal grains or from the starch or fecula of vegetables, extracted by various processes, and used in cookery)

   Synonyms: grysik, kasza manna

2. (biblical) manna (food miraculously produced for the Israelites in the desert in the book of Exodus)
3. mannagrass, sweetgrass (any grass of the genus Glyceria)
4. manna (sugary sap of the manna gum tree)
5. rim lichen (any lichen of the genus Lecanora)

   Synonym: misecznica

• manna in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• manna in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• manna in PWN's encyclopedia
• Stanisław Ciszewski (1909) “manna”, in “Przyczynek do słownika gwary mazowieckiej”, in Prace Filologiczne (in Polish), volume 7, z. 1, Warsaw: skł. gł. w Księgarni E. Wende i Ska, page 207

Cognate to Italian manna.

manna f (plural mannas)

1. sheaf
2. (heraldry) garb

màiga f, mannuciu m

From Proto-Cushitic. Cognates include Burji meena, Hadiyya manna and Kambaata manna.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmanːa/
• Hyphenation: man‧na

manna m (singulative mancho m or f)

1. (collective) people

• Kazuhiro Kawachi (2007) A grammar of Sidaama (Sidamo), a Cushitic language of Ethiopia, page 38
• Gizaw Shimelis, editor (2007), “manna”, in Sidaama-Amharic-English dictionary, Addis Ababa: Sidama Information and Culture department

From Proto-Samic *mānō.

manna

1. moon
2. month

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

• fanna, fynna

manna

1. informal form of y fan yna (“there”)