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English

Alternative forms

• manilio

Etymology

From Spanish manilla (“bracelet”), from Catalan manilla (“bracelet, armring”); partly from Latin mon?le (“a necklace, collar”), from Proto-Indo-European *mony- (“withers, crest, mane”); and partly from Frankish *m?nili (“moon-shaped ornament”), from *m?no (“moon”), from Proto-Germanic *m?nô (“moon”), from Proto-Indo-European *m?h?n?s (“moon, month”), related to Old High German mânili (“moon-shaped ornament”). More at mane, moon.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?l?

Noun

manilla (plural manillas)

1. A penannular armlet, mostly in bronze, copper or gold, which served as a form of money or barter coinage amongst certain West African peoples.

Anagrams

• Alnilam, animall, laminal

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin man?cula, diminutive of manus (“hand”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /m??ni.??/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ma?ni.?a/

Noun

manilla f (plural manilles)

1. bracelet
2. (usually in the plural) handcuff

Further reading

• “manilla” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “manilla” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Finnish

Noun

manilla

1. Adessive singular form of mani.

Spanish

Etymology

From mano +? -illa, or more likely borrowed from Catalan manilla, itself a derivative of mà or from Vulgar Latin *manicla < Latin manicula, whence the inherited Spanish manija. Compare English manacle.

Pronunciation

Noun

manilla f (plural manillas)

1. handle
2. (Spain) door handle
3. (Colombia) bracelet

Related terms

• manillar

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish vainilla, a diminutive form of vaina (“pod”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v??n?l?/
• Rhymes: -?l?
• IPA^(key): /v??n?l?/
• Rhymes: -?l?

Noun

vanilla (countable and uncountable, plural vanillas)

1. (countable) Any tropical, climbing orchid of the genus Vanilla (especially Vanilla planifolia), bearing podlike fruit yielding an extract used in flavoring food or in perfumes.
2. (countable) The fruit or bean of the vanilla plant.

   Synonym: vanilla bean

3. (uncountable) The extract of the fruit of the vanilla plant.

   Synonym: vanilla extract

4. (uncountable) The distinctive fragrant flavour/flavor characteristic of vanilla extract.

5. (uncountable) Any artificially produced homologue of vanilla extract, principally vanillin produced from lignin from the paper industry or from petrochemicals.

   Synonym: imitation vanilla

6. (countable, sexuality, slang) Someone who is not into fetishism; a normophile
7. (uncountable, gaming, slang) An unmodded version of a game
8. A yellowish-white colour, like that of vanilla ice cream.

Derived terms

• Cuban vanilla
• vanilla grass
• vanillaness

Translations

See also

• flavour extract

Adjective

vanilla (comparative more vanilla, superlative most vanilla)

1. (of flavor, etc.) Of vanilla.
2. (colloquial, chiefly computing, retronym) Standard, plain, default, unmodified, basic.
   • 2001, "Michael Foot", BeebIt 0.32 and BBCFiles 0.29 released (on newsgroup comp.sys.acorn.announce)

     BBCFiles is a BBC file converter that converts between some of the various types of files used by BBC emulators on Acorn & PC formats. It supports 6502Em style applications & scripts, /ssd dfs disc images (supporting watford double catalogue), vanilla directories, /zip of bbc files with /inf files (with limitations) and directory of bbc files with /inf files.

3. (sexuality) Not kinky, not involving BDSM.

   Synonym: normophilic
4. Plain; conventional; unimaginative.

Synonyms

• vanillar
• See also Thesaurus:bare-bones

Related terms

• vanillin

Translations

See also

• (slang, electronics): jellybean

Icelandic

Etymology

From English vanilla, from Spanish vainilla, diminutive of vaina (“pod”), from Latin v?g?na (“sheath”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?va?n?l?a/

Noun

vanilla f (genitive singular vanillu, nominative plural vanillur)

1. (usually singular only, uncountable) vanilla

Declension

Derived terms

• vanilluplanta