manea
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish مانی (mani, “poem”), from Arabic مَعْنًى (maʕnan).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ma.ˈne̯a/
- Rhymes: -a
- Hyphenation: ma‧neá
Noun
manea f (plural manele)
- a type of folk music (often involving love songs) with originally Turkish and/or Middle Eastern influences
Usage notes
As a modern genre of music, it is most commonly referred to in its plural form, manele.
Declension
singular | plural | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
nominative-accusative | manea | maneaua | manele | manelele | |
genitive-dative | manele | manelei | manele | manelelor | |
vocative | manea | manelelor |
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /maˈnea/ [maˈne.a]
- Rhymes: -ea
- Syllabification: ma‧ne‧a
Etymology 1
Deverbal from manear.
Noun
manea f (plural maneas)
Etymology 2
Verb
manea
- inflection of manear:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “manea”, 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