мана
See also: маня
Chuvash
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology 1
From a dialectal vulgarism of Ottoman Turkish بهانه (bahane), either in the form of "mahane" or "mana"[1], from Persian بهانه (bahâne, “excuse”). Related to Macedonian маана (maana), Bulgarian махана (mahana), Albanian mahanë - all borrowed from Ottoman Turkish.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mǎːna/
- Hyphenation: ма‧на
- Rhymes: -ǎːna
Declension
References
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “بهانه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 415
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mâna/
- Hyphenation: ма‧на
Declension
Etymology 3
From English mana, itself from a Polynesian source.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mâna/
- Hyphenation: ма‧на
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