manya

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *mania (“manual skill”), from Latin manus (“hand”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈma.ɲə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈma.ɲa]

manya f (plural manyes)

1. skill
2. hurry

• “manya”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “manya”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “manya” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “manya” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Portuguese manha, from Old Galician-Portuguese manna, from Vulgar Latin *mania (“manual skill or ability”), from Latin manus (“hand”).

manya f

1. habit, compulsion, obsession
2. annoying, bad habit

• Joseph Nehama, Jesús Cantera (1977) “máña”, in Dictionnaire du Judéo-Espagnol (in French), Madrid: CSIC, →ISBN, page 346

• Rhymes: -anʝa
• Syllabification: man‧ya

manya m or f by sense (plural manyas)

1. (Uruguay, soccer) a supporter, fan, coach, etc. of Club Atlético Peñarol, a soccer club from Montevideo

manya

1. inflection of manyar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-mànya.

-manya (infinitive kumanya)

1. to know
2. to be able to

• -manyiska (“to know thoroughly, to know for certain, to understand”)
• manyi (“I don't know, maybe”)
• umanyi (“knowledge”)
• -manyikwa (“to be known”)

• William Y. Turner (1996) Tumbuka/Tonga-English and English - Tumbuka/Tonga Dictionary‎^[1], Central Africana Limited, page 67

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-manya^?

1. (transitive) to unite

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