manzana

• mazana

Compare Spanish manzana.

• IPA^(key): /manˈθana/
• Syllabification: man‧za‧na
• Rhymes: -ana

manzana f (plural manzanas)

1. apple

   Synonym: poma (Benasquese)

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “manzana”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

From Spanish manzana.

manzana

1. apple.

From earlier mazana, from Vulgar Latin *mattiāna, ellipsis of māla mattiāna, plural of Latin mālum mattiānum (literally “apple of Matius”), referring to a kind of apple. Gaius Matius, a friend of Julius Caesar and Cicero, was a Roman horticulturist and author of cookbooks. Cognate with Portuguese maçã, dialectal Catalan maçana.

• IPA^(key): /manˈθana/ [mãn̟ˈθa.na] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /manˈsana/ [mãnˈsa.na] (Latin America, Philippines)

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• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: man‧za‧na

manzana f (plural manzanas)

1. apple

   Synonym: (rare) poma

2. (Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Bolivia) an area corresponding to 10,000 varas, equivalent to c. 6987 m²
3. city block

   Synonym: (Americas) cuadra

   dar la vuelta a la manzana ― to go around the block

• “manzana”, 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
• “manzana”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010

Borrowed from Spanish manzana.

manzana

1. apple

• Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C. (2006) Pequeño diccionario ilustrado: Náhuatl de los municipios de Zacatlán, Tepetzintla y Ahuacatlán‎^[1], segunda edición edition, Tlalpan, D.F. México: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 20