mañana

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English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mañana.

Pronunciation

Adverb

mañana (not comparable)

  1. (US, in Spanish-speaking contexts) Tomorrow.
  2. (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.”

Derived terms

Translations

tomorrow — see tomorrow

Asturian

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *māneāna, from Latin māne.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /maˈɲana/,
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  • Rhymes: -ana
  • Hyphenation: ma‧ña‧na

Adverb

mañana

  1. tomorrow

Noun

mañana f (plural mañanes)

  1. 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

  1. tomorrow
    Synonym: (obsolete) cras
    pasado mañana ― the day after tomorrow
    mañana por la mañana ― tomorrow morning
  2. soon, shortly
    Synonyms: pronto, en breve

Noun

mañana f (plural mañanas)

  1. 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)

  1. the near future; tomorrow
    en un día del mañana ― someday in the near future

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Chavacano: mañana

See also

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