Manhattan
English
Alternative forms
- (the cocktail): manhattan
Etymology
From the earlier form Manna-hata recorded by Dutch travelers and settlers, from its name in Unami, the local Algonquian language. That name is usually taken to be a compound of Unami mënatay (“island”) or Munsee munahan (compare Abenaki manahan) and another element.
Based on a report by Anthony Heckewelder that the name Manhattan derives from the wooded area whose trees were suitable for making bows, Goddard explains the early forms Manna-hatta(n) and Mannahachtink as spellings of manaháhtaan "place for gathering the wood to make bows" and a related locative form manaháhteenk. compound of Munsee manah- (gather) + -aht (bow) + -aan (place).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mænˈhæt.ən/
- (New York City) enPR: mənhătən, IPA(key): /mənˈhæt.ən/, [mn̩ˈhætn̩]
- (regional), IPA(key): [mn̩ˈhæʔɪ̃n̩], [mn̩ˈhæʔn̩]
Audio (New York City): (file)
Proper noun
Manhattan
- An indigenous people of North America who lived in present day New York State.
- A borough of New York City, New York, United States, mainly on Manhattan Island, coterminous with New York County; in full, Borough of Manhattan.
- An island of New York, United States; in full, Manhattan Island.
- 1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems:
- Lo, body and soul—this land, / My own Manhattan with spires, and the sparkling and hurrying tides, and the ships, / The varied and ample land, the South and the North in the light, Ohio’s shores and flashing Missouri, / And ever the far-spreading prairies cover’d with grass and corn.
- 2017 December 8, Hadley Freeman, “Adam Gopnik: ‘You’re waltzing along and suddenly you’re portrayed as a monster of privilege’”, in The Guardian[2]:
- Adam Gopnik has, by many accounts, including his own, a lovely life. A longtime staff writer for the New Yorker and bestselling author, Gopnik lives in Manhattan with his wife, Martha, a film-maker, and their two children, and he moves in the kind of circles that allow him to drop casual lines into conversation such as: “As John Updike once said to me …”, although he has the nervy Jewish self-consciousness to follow that with “… if you’ll forgive the namedrop.”
- A number of places in the United States:
- A ghost town in Larimer County, Colorado, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Manatee County, Florida, United States.
- A township in Will County, Illinois, United States.
- A village in Will County, Illinois, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Putnam County, Indiana, United States.
- A city, the county seat of Riley County, Kansas, United States.
- A town in Gallatin County, Montana, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Nye County, Nevada, United States.
Derived terms
- Borough of Manhattan
- Manhattan clam chowder
- Manhattanese
- Manhattan Island
- Manhattanism
- Manhattanite
- Manhattanization
- Manhattanize
Translations
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Noun
Manhattan (plural Manhattans)
Translations
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References
Further reading
- Manhattan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Manhattan (cocktail) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English Manhattan, it in turn deriving, via Dutch, from the Unami language.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌmɛnˈɦɛ.tən/
Audio: (file)
Proper noun
Manhattan ?
- Manhattan (a borough and island of New York City, New York, United States)
Derived terms
Noun
Manhattan m (plural Manhattans, diminutive Manhattantje n)
- Manhattan (cocktail)
German
Etymology
Borrowed from English Manhattan.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɛ(ː)nˈhɛtən/, [mɛnˈhɛ.tn̩], [ˌmɛːn-], [-tən]
Audio: (file)
Proper noun
Manhattan n (proper noun, genitive Manhattans or (optionally with an article) Manhattan)
- Manhattan (a borough and island of New York City, New York, United States)
Declension
Derived terms
Noun
Manhattan m (strong, genitive Manhattans or Manhattan, plural Manhattans or Manhattan)
- Manhattan (cocktail)
Declension
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
| nominative | ein | der | Manhattan | die | Manhattans, Manhattan |
| genitive | eines | des | Manhattans, Manhattan | der | Manhattans, Manhattan |
| dative | einem | dem | Manhattan | den | Manhattans, Manhattan |
| accusative | einen | den | Manhattan | die | Manhattans, Manhattan |
Swedish
Noun
Manhattan n
- Manhattan (borough of New York City)
Noun
Manhattan c
- Manhattan (cocktail)