different between manita vs manta

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish manita (“little hand”), feminine-form diminutive of mano (“hand”), because the small red flowers of the tree resemble five-fingered human hands.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??ni?t?/

Noun

manita (plural manitas)

1. (rare) The tree Chiranthodendron pentadactylon, or the red, hand-like flower this tree produces.
   • 1828, Mark Beaufoy, Mexican illustrations, founded upon facts, page 230:

     […] The manita tree,* so named from the singular formation of its flower, a drawing of which is placed as the frontispiece of this book, is a species of plant almost unknown in the catalogues of botanists.

     * Manita means a little hand.

   • 1829 October 3, in the Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette, number 321, page 112:

     Tradition states, that though the Indians did not actually worship the manita tree, yet they regarded the flower with a sort of religious veneration.

   • 1838, John Murray, The economy of vegetation, or phœnomena of plants, page 159:

     The curious manita, or ‘hand tree,’ near the city of Mexico, is another of these curiosities.

   • circa 1846, Traveling Sketches, from a work by Waddy Thompson, republished in the Rural Repository (1846 July 18), volume 22, number 23, page 181:

     […] with high walls on every side but open at the top and certainly not exceeding 80 feet square, and this is the botanic garden of the palace of Mexico; a few shrubs and plants and the celebrated manita tree, are all that it contains.

   • 1852, Victoria Alexandrina M.L. Gregory, A young traveller's journal of a tour in North and South America during the year 1850

     Close by was a plant of the manita, a flower which the Aztecs used to worship ; it is in the form of a hand, with four fingers and a thumb : this they imagined to be the hand of one of their most powerful deities, and adored it ; its colour is a brilliant scarlet.

   • 1928, Ernest Gruening, Mexico and its heritage, page 74:

     Here one finds among remedies for every organ and ailment, manita, whose red flower, shaped like thumb and four fingers gives its name “the little hand.”

   • 2000, Stephen Harrigan, The Gates of the Alamo: A Novel:

     A sign nailed to a manita tree read “Jardín Botánica.” Edmund surveyed this pathetic place in disbelief. The botanic garden of the Palace of Mexico was cramped, airless, light-starved, and populated with meager, untended specimens — […]

Synonyms

• Devil's hand tree, devil's hand tree; Mexican hand tree; handflower, handflower tree; macpalxochitl

Translations

Anagrams

• Mantia, animat, manati

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ma?ni?ta

Noun

manita

1. the female participant of a manito manita

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma?nita/, [ma?ni.t?a]

Etymology 1

mano +? -ita

Noun

manita f (plural manitas)

1. Diminutive of mano, little hand

   Synonym: manito

Etymology 2

Noun

manita f (plural manitas)

1. Clipping of hermanita.

Turkish

Etymology

First used in 1882, as Ottoman Turkish [script needed] (mantinota, “mistress”), from Italian mantenuta (“kept woman”). Compare with mantenuto (“kept man”).

Noun

manita (definite accusative manitay?, plural manitalar)

1. girl friend, chick
2. lover (unisex)

Declension

English

Etymology

Spanish manta (“blanket”)

Noun

manta (plural mantas)

1. A kind of fabric or blanket used in Latin America and southwestern United States.
2. Ellipsis of manta ray.

Derived terms

• Alfred manta (Mobula alfredi)
• giant manta (Mobula birostris)

Anagrams

• Tamna, atman, manat

Asturian

Noun

manta f (plural mantes)

1. blanket

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?man.t?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?man.ta/

Etymology 1

Compare Spanish manta.

Noun

manta f (plural mantes)

1. blanket
2. manta ray

Etymology 2

Adjective

manta

1. feminine singular of mant

Further reading

• “manta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Cebuano

Etymology

From English manta ray, from Spanish manta.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: man?ta

Noun

manta

1. a manta ray; any of several very large pelagic rays of the genus Manta

Chavacano

Etymology

From Spanish manta (“blanket”).

Noun

manta

1. blanket

Galician

Etymology

Attested from the 11th century in local Medieval Latin documents. From manto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?manta?/

Noun

manta f (plural mantas)

1. blanket
   • 1327, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Vigo: Galaxia, page 79:

     e proueam á dita albergaría de leytos e de feltros et mantas e de cubertas e manteñan y hun ome e hua moller que aguarde a roupa e faça os leytos aos doentes e os caldos quando lles conpryr

     and they should provide that hospital with beds and felts and blankets and covers, and they should keep there a man and a woman who should guard the clothes and make the beds of the sick and the hot soup when they would need it

   Synonym: cobertor

2. runner stone (upper millstone)
3. fry shoal

Derived terms

• a manta

References

• “manta” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “manta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “manta” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “manta” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Ilocano

Etymology

From Spanish manta.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: man?ta
• IPA^(key): /?manta/

Noun

manta

1. blanket

Latvian

Noun

manta f (4th declension)

1. property

2. wealth, riches

3. things, objects

Declension

Derived terms

• mant?ba
• mant?gs, mant?gums
• nemant?gs

Malagasy

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *m?taq, compare Indonesian mentah, Maori mata.

Adjective

manta

1. raw (uncooked)

Pali

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Sanskrit ?????? (mantra).

Noun

manta n

1. charm, spell, incantation

Declension

Papantla Totonac

Noun

manta inan

1. sweet potato

References

• Crescencio García Ramos, Diccionario Básico Totonaco-Español Español-Totonaco (Xalapa, Academia Veracruzana de las Lenguas Indígenas, 2007)

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?man.ta/

Etymology 1

From Spanish manta.

Noun

manta f

1. manta ray

Declension

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

manta n

1. genitive singular of manto
2. nominative plural of manto
3. accusative plural of manto
4. vocative plural of manto

Further reading

• manta in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• manta in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

From manto.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?m??.t?/
• Hyphenation: man?ta

Noun

manta f (plural mantas)

1. blanket

Romanian

Etymology

Ultimately from French manteau, probably through the intermediate of another language.

Noun

manta f (plural mantale)

1. mantle, cloak, wrap

Related terms

• mantie, mant?

Spanish

Etymology

From manto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?manta/, [?mãn?.t?a]

Noun

manta f (plural mantas)

1. blanket, cloth, cloth banner

   Synonyms: cobija, colcha, frazada

2. poncho
3. a fish trap shaped like a blanket
4. (zoology) manta ray

Derived terms

Further reading

• “manta” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Yankunytjatjara

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?manta/

Noun

manta

1. earth, soil
2. land

References

• "manta" in Cliff Goddard (1992) Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara to English Dictionary, 2nd edition