different between manji vs mani

English

Etymology 1

From Hindi ????? (m?ñjh?, “boatman, sailor”).

Alternative forms

• mangee, manjee

Noun

manji (plural manjis)

1. (obsolete, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan) A captain or skipper of a boat. [17th–19th c.]
   • 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 361:

     I prevailed upon the mangee of a pinnace I found laying in the creek, awaiting the arrival of a gentleman hourly expected from Vizagapatam, to convey us up the river as far as Budge Budge […] .

Etymology 2

From a form of Punjabi ???? (mañj?, “raised bed”). The Sikh sense is based on their use as seats of authority.

Noun

manji (plural manjis)

1. A type of raised bed similar to a cot from South Asia.
   • 1990, W. H. McLeod, Textual Sources for the Study of Sikhism, page 152:

     Literally, 'He sat on a manji.' The manji is a small string bed. In the villages of the Punjab acknowledged leaders, spiritual and temporal, would commonly receive their followers seated on a manji.

   • 2005, W. Owen Cole, Piara Singh Sambhi, A Popular Dictionary of Sikhism: Sikh Religion and Philosophy:

     The significance of a manji lies in its use as the seat of a person in authority, other people sitting on the ground.

   • 2011, Rocky Singh, Mayur Sharma, Highway on my Plate: The indian guide to roadside eating, Random House India (?ISBN):

     There is even a tap to bathe under after you have spent a night sleeping on the manjis (beds), and all this comes at the price of a meal!

   • 2015, Shauna Singh Baldwin, What the Body Remembers:

     Roop doesn't want to sleep on a mat on the floor; she wants to sleep with Lajo Bhua on a manji, wants Lajo Bhua to tell her stories till she falls asleep.

2. (Sikhism) A Sikh religious administrative unit.
   • 1993, Sunita Puri, Advent of Sikh Religion: A Socio-political Perspective, page 155:

     In the Janam Sakhis and utterances of Guru Nanak there is no reference, implicit or explicit, to the subject of manjis.

Derived terms

• manji sahib/Manji Sahib

Etymology 3

From Japanese ? (manji).

Noun

manji (plural manjis)

1. A left-facing Japanese swastika.

Embu

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *màjíj??.

Noun

manji

1. water

References

• Ciarunji Chesaina, Oral Literature of the Embu and Mbeere (1997, ?ISBN

Japanese

Romanization

manji

1. R?maji transcription of ???

Serbo-Croatian

Adjective

manji (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. comparative degree of malen

English

Noun

mani (plural manis)

1. (informal) Clipping of manicure.

See also

• mani-pedi
• pedi

Anagrams

• Amin, Iman, Main, Mian, Mina, NAMI, NIMA, Naim, amin, iman, main, mina

Bikol Central

Noun

maní

1. peanut
2. (slang) clitoris

Catalan

Pronunciation

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

Verb

mani

1. first-person singular present subjunctive form of manar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive form of manar
3. third-person singular imperative form of manar

Classical Nahuatl

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mani/

Verb

mani

1. (intransitive) To spread out, to extend.
2. (intransitive) To cover a flat surface.

Synonyms

• zohua

Cuyunon

Noun

mani

1. peanut

Drehu

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mani/

Noun

mani

1. rain

References

• Tyron, D.T., Hackman, B. (1983) Solomon Islands languages: An internal classification. Cited in: "Dehu" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.
• Leenhardt, M. (1946) Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Cited in: "?De’u" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

Finnish

Etymology

From English money.

Noun

mani

1. (colloquial) money

   Synonym: raha

Declension

Anagrams

• main, mina, nami

Garo

Noun

mani

1. paternal aunt
2. wife of uncle
3. mother-in-law
4. sister of mother-in-law

Synonyms

• manitang (formal)
• manigipa (formal)

Hungarian

Etymology

From English money.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?m?ni]
• Hyphenation: ma?ni
• Rhymes: -ni

Noun

mani (plural manik)

1. (slang) money

Declension

References

Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mani/

Noun

mani

1. plural of mano
2. manes, ancestral spirits

Indonesian

Etymology

From Arabic ?????? (man?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?mani]
• Hyphenation: ma?ni

Noun

mani (first-person possessive maniku, second-person possessive manimu, third-person possessive maninya)

1. ejaculate, sperm.

Further reading

• “mani” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Noun

mani f

1. plural of mano

Anagrams

• amni, iman, mina

Karao

Noun

mani

1. peanut

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ma?.ni?/, [?mä?ni?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ma.ni/, [?m??ni]

Adjective

m?n?

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of m?nis

References

• mani in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mani in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Latvian

Pronoun

mani

1. me; accusative singular form of es
2. with me; instrumental singular form of es

mani

1. nominative plural masculine form of mans
2. vocative plural masculine form of mans

Verb

mani

1. 2nd person singular present indicative form of man?t
2. 2nd person singular imperative form of man?t

Maranao

Noun

mani

1. sperm, semen
2. egg cell

Masbatenyo

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish maní (“peanut”).

Noun

maní

1. peanut

Masimasi

Noun

mani

1. bird

References

• George W. Grace, Notes on the phonological history of the Austronesian languages of the Sarmi Coast, in Oceanic Linguistics (1971, 10:11-37)

Middle English

Alternative forms

• mane, magnie, maini, mainie, mange, manie, manige, mani?, many, meine, meni, menie, monei, moni, monie, moni?, mony, myny

Etymology

From the Old English manig.

Pronoun

man?

1. many
   • 1407, The Testimony of William Thorpe, pages 40–41

     And I seide, “Ser, in his tyme maister Ioon Wiclef was holden of ful many men the grettis clerk that thei knewen lyuynge vpon erthe.“

Descendants

• Scots: mony, monie
• English: many

References

• “man?” listed in the Middle English Dictionary [2001]

Miskito

Noun

mani

1. summer
2. year

Mo

Noun

mani

1. bird

References

• George W. Grace, Notes on the phonological history of the Austronesian languages of the Sarmi Coast, in Oceanic Linguistics (1971, 10:11-37)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (manía, “madness”).

Noun

mani m (definite singular manien, indefinite plural manier, definite plural maniene)

1. mania (mental illness, or excessive enthusiasm)

Related terms

• manisk

References

• “mani” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (manía, “madness”).

Noun

mani m (definite singular manien, indefinite plural maniar, definite plural maniane)

1. mania (mental illness, or excessive enthusiasm)

Related terms

• manisk

References

• “mani” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Irish

Etymology

Univerbation of má (“if”) +? ní (“not”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?man?i/

Conjunction

mani

1. if…not, unless
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 2^c10

Usage notes

Takes the indicative when the following verb has a past or present meaning and the present subjunctive when the verb has a future meaning.

Further reading

• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2003) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, ?ISBN, § 902, page 558

Pitjantjatjara

Etymology

Borrowed from English money.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mani/, [?m?n?]

Noun

mani

1. money

Spanish

Etymology

Clipping of manifestación.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mani/, [?ma.ni]

Noun

mani f (plural manis)

1. (colloquial) protest

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish maní (“peanut”).

Noun

manî

1. peanut

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English money.

Noun

mani

1. money

Turkish

Noun

mani (definite accusative maniyi, uncountable)

1. poem, couplet, four liner
2. obstacle, hindrance, impediment, crimp, disincentive, slashing
3. (dialectal) always, everyday

Declension

Synonyms

• hoyrat
• engel

Venetian

Noun

mani

1. plural of mato

Volapük

Noun

mani

1. accusative singular of man

Yakan

Noun

mani

1. peanut

Yogad

Noun

maní

1. nut

Zia

Noun

mani

1. boy