Manila

• Maynila (nonstandard)
• May-nilad (historical, based on an antiquarian and inaccurate etymology)
• Manilla (archaic, historical, misspelling)

From Spanish Manila, from Tagalog Maynila, from may (“there is”) +‎ nila (“indigo”), Tagalog nila from Sanskrit नील (nīla).

• (Philippines) IPA^(key): /mɐˈni.lɐ/

  • Audio (Philippines):

    (file)

• (UK, US, Canada) IPA^(key): /məˈnɪl.ə/

  • Audio (General American):

    (file)

  • Audio (Canada):

    (file)

• Hyphenation: ma‧ni‧la
• Rhymes: -ɪlə

Manila

2. The capital city of the Philippines; the regional capital of Metro Manila, in the island of Luzon.

   Meronyms: Binondo, Ermita, Intramuros, Malate, Paco, Pandacan, Port Area, Quiapo, Sampaloc, San Andres, San Miguel, San Nicolas, Santa Ana, Santa Cruz, Santa Mesa, Tondo — districts of Manila

   • 2007, Ronald Findlay, Kevin O'Rourke, Power and Plenty‎^[1], Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 173:

     Chinese traders, mostly from the southern ports of Amoy (Hsia-men) and Canton, took raw silk, fabrics, and apparel to Manila, where these cargoes were sold for silver and carried back for sale in the New World.

3. (loosely) Metro Manila, the National Capital Region (NCR).
4. (loosely) the entirety of Luzon.
5. (figuratively) The national government or administrative authority of the Philippines.
6. A small town, the county seat of Daggett County, Utah, United States.
7. A census-designated place in Humboldt County, California, United States.
8. A city in Mississippi County, Arkansas, United States.

• Within the Philippines, the colloquial meaning of "Manila" depends on the region:
  • For people in and around Metro Manila, "Manila" specifically means the City of Manila.
  • For people further away from Metro Manila (i.e. in North Luzon and Visayas), "Manila" means the entire Metro Manila.
  • For people even further away (i.e. in Mindanao), "Manila" means the entirety of Luzon.

Manila (plural Manilas)

1. Venerupis philippinarum; a Pacific clam.
2. Alternative form of manila (“kind of cheroot”).

• maalin, Almain, lamian, aminal, lamina, al-Amin, Milana, Alamin, animal, Animal, almain, Malian

Manila

1. Manila (the capital city of the Philippines; the regional capital of Metro Manila, in the island of Luzon)

• Manileen
• Manileens

Borrowed from Spanish Manila, from Tagalog Maynila.

• IPA^(key): /maˈnila/ [mɐˈn̪i.l̪ɐ]
• IPA^(key): /maˈnilaʔ/ [mɐˈn̪i.l̪ɐʔ]
• Hyphenation: Ma‧ni‧la

Manila or Manilà (Badlit spelling ᜋᜈᜒᜎ)

1. Manila (the capital city of the Philippines; the regional capital of Metro Manila, in the island of Luzon)
2. (loosely) Metro Manila, National Capital Region (a region and metropolitan area in the Philippines)
3. (historical) Manila (a former province of the Philippines)
4. (historical) Manila (the capital city of Spanish-era Philippines; modern Intramuros)

• IPA^(key): [ˈmanɪla]

• Audio:

  (file)

Manila f (relational adjective manilský)

1. Manila (the capital city of the Philippines; the regional capital of Metro Manila, in the island of Luzon)

• “Manila”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Borrowed from Spanish Manila, from Tagalog Maynila, from may (“there is”) +‎ nila (“indigo”), Tagalog nila from Sanskrit नील (nīla).

Manila n (proper noun, genitive Manilas or (optionally with an article) Manila)

1. Manila (the capital city of the Philippines; the regional capital of Metro Manila, in the island of Luzon)

From Dutch Manilla.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /maˈnila/ [maˈni.la]
• Rhymes: -ila
• Syllabification: Ma‧ni‧la

Manila

1. Manila (the capital of the Philippines)

Borrowed from Spanish Manila, from Tagalog Maynila, from may (“there is”) +‎ nila (“indigo”), Tagalog nila from Sanskrit नील (nīla).

• IPA^(key): /maˈni.la/
• Rhymes: -ila
• Hyphenation: Ma‧nì‧la

Manila f

1. Manila (the capital city of the Philippines; the regional capital of Metro Manila, in the island of Luzon)

• lamina, manali

Borrowed from Spanish Manila.

• IPA^(key): /maˈɲi.la/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ila
• Syllabification: Ma‧ni‧la
• Homophone: manila

Manila f (related adjective manilski)

1. Manila (the capital city of the Philippines)

• Manila in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Manila in PWN's encyclopedia

From Spanish Manila, from Tagalog Maynila, from may (“there is”) +‎ nila (“indigo”), Tagalog nila from Sanskrit नील (nīla).

• Hyphenation: Ma‧ni‧la

Manila ?

1. Manila (the capital city of the Philippines; the regional capital of Metro Manila, in the island of Luzon)

• IPA^(key): /mânila/
• Hyphenation: Ma‧ni‧la

Mȁnila f (Cyrillic spelling Ма̏нила)

1. Manila (the capital city of the Philippines; the regional capital of Metro Manila, in the island of Luzon)

• IPA^(key): [ˈmaɲila]

Manila f (genitive singular Manily, declension pattern of žena)

1. Manila (the capital city of the Philippines; the regional capital of Metro Manila, in the island of Luzon)

• “Manila”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

• IPA^(key): /manìːla/

Maníla f

1. Manila (the capital city of the Philippines; the regional capital of Metro Manila, in the island of Luzon)

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem
nominative	Maníla
genitive	Maníle
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	Maníla
genitive (rodȋlnik)	Maníle
dative (dajȃlnik)	Maníli
accusative (tožȋlnik)	Manílo
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	Maníli
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	Manílo

• Manílčan / Manílčanka
• manílski

• “Manila”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “Manila”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references

Borrowed from Tagalog Maynila, from may (“there is”) +‎ nila (“indigo”), Tagalog nila from Sanskrit नील (nīla).

• IPA^(key): /maˈnila/ [maˈni.la]
• Rhymes: -ila
• Syllabification: Ma‧ni‧la

Manila f

1. Manila (the capital city of the Philippines; the regional capital of Metro Manila, in the island of Luzon)

• → Cantonese: 馬尼拉 / 马尼拉 (maa⁵ nei⁴ laai¹)
• ⇒ Chamorro: cha'kan manila, chotdan Manila
• → English: Manila
  • → Korean: 마닐라 (manilla)
• → French: Manille
• → Hokkien: 馬尼拉 / 马尼拉 (Má-nî-la), 岷里拉 (Bîn-lí-la), 岷尼拉 (Bîn-nî-la)
• → Ibaloi: Manida
• → Japanese: マニラ (Manira)
• → Mandarin: 馬尼拉 / 马尼拉 (Mǎnílā)
• → Tagalog: Manila

• “Manila”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Borrowed from Spanish Manila, itself from Tagalog Maynila.

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /maˈnila/ [mɐˈn̪iː.lɐ]
    • Rhymes: -ila
  • IPA^(key): /maˈnilaʔ/ [mɐˈn̪iː.lɐʔ] (influence from Maynila)
    • Rhymes: -ilaʔ
• Syllabification: Ma‧ni‧la

Manila (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜈᜒᜎ) (informal)

1. alternative form of Maynila

• → Hokkien: 馬尼剌 / 马尼剌, 岷里納, 岷里刺, 岷唎喇, 民希臘 / 民希腊, 蠻哩喇 / 蛮哩喇, 呅哖膋 / 呅哖䒿 (obsolete)
• → Japanese: 馬尼剌 (Manira) (obsolete)
• → Mandarin: 馬尼剌 / 马尼剌 (Mǎnílà) (obsolete)

• “Manila”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Santos, Vito C. (1978) Vicassan's Pilipino-English Dictionary, Revised edition (overall work in Tagalog and English), With an Introduction by Teodoro A. Agoncillo, Metro Manila: National Book Store, →ISBN, page 1172

• alamin, animal

• Ma-ni-la

From English Manila.

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [maː˧˧ ni˧˧ laː˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [maː˧˧ nɪj˧˧ laː˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [maː˧˧ nɪj˧˧ laː˧˧]
• Phonetic spelling: ma ni la

Manila

1. Manila (the capital of the Philippines)

   Synonym: Ma Ní