mañana

• manana

Borrowed from Spanish mañana.

• IPA^(key): /məˈnjɑːnə/, /mɑːˈnjɑːnə/, /məˈnjænə/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːnə, -ænə

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.

   • 1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:

     The answer was always a harassed smile and a promise that there should be machine-gun instruction mañana. Needless to say mañana never came.

   • 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^[1]:

     “[With]^[sic] 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.”

• mañana habit

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *māneāna, from Latin māne.

• IPA^(key): /maˈɲana/ [maˈɲa.na]

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• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: ma‧ña‧na

mañana

1. tomorrow

mañana f (plural mañanes)

1. morning

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.

• IPA^(key): /maˈɲana/ [maˈɲa.na]
• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: ma‧ña‧na

mañana

1. tomorrow

   Synonym: cras (obsolete)

   pasado mañana ― the day after tomorrow

   mañana por la mañana ― tomorrow morning

2. soon, shortly

   Synonyms: pronto, en breve

mañana f (plural mañanas)

1. the morning

   Synonyms: matino (obsolete), matina (Argentina)

   Hyponym: madrugada

   las ocho de la mañana ― eight in the morning

   Él se levanta por las mañanas.

   He gets up in the mornings.

mañana m (plural mañanas)

1. the near future; tomorrow

   en un día del mañana ― someday in the near future

• Chavacano: mañana

• “mañana”, 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