different between manna vs anna

English

Alternative forms

• (possibly archaic) mana

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old English, from Late Latin manna, from Ancient Greek ????? (mánna), from Hebrew ??? (m?n, “'manna”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mæn?/
• Rhymes: -æn?
• Homophones: manner, manor (non-rhotic dialects only)

Noun

manna (uncountable)

1. (biblical) Food miraculously produced for the Israelites in the desert in the book of Exodus.
   • Exodus 16:14-15, KJV:

     And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground. And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.

2. (by extension) Any boon which comes into one's hands by good luck.
   • 1596-99, Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act V, scene i:

     Fair ladies, you drop manna in the way / Of starved people.

   • 2010, Giancarlo Gandolfo, Economic Dynamics (4th ed.), Springer 2010, p.?197f.

     The introduction of technical progress in this model can be made in a very simple manner if we assume that it is of the ‘disembodied’ type, that is, something like manna that falls from heaven on all capital goods, old and new. [emphasis in original]

3. The sugary sap of the manna gum tree which oozes out from holes drilled by insects and falls to the ground around the tree.[1]
   • 1966, Bill Beatty, Tales of Old Australia, National Distributors, ?ISBN, page 14, discussing old Australian foods

     The icing on the cake was made from manna, which was gathered under the manna gums. Manna mixed with milk made a splendid icing.

Derived terms

• Australian manna (from Eucalyptus viminalis, E. gunnii, E. pulverulenta)
• manna ash (Fraxinus ornus)
• manna grass, mannagrass (Glyceria spp.)
• manna gum (Eucalyptus viminalis, E. gunnii, E. pulverulenta)
• manna mealybug (Trabutina crassispinosa or Trabutina mannipara)
• manna scale (Trabutina crassispinosa or Trabutina mannipara)
• mannitol
• mannose
• Persian manna (Astragalus brachycalyx)
• tamarisk manna scale (Trabutina mannipara)

Translations

Further reading

• manna on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Amann, Annam

Faroese

Etymology

From Late Latin manna, from Ancient Greek ????? (mánna), from Hebrew ??? (m?n, “'manna”).

Noun

manna n (genitive singular manna, uncountable)

1. manna
2. (botany) fruit of an elm tree

Declension

Derived terms

• mannaask

Finnish

Etymology

From Late Latin manna, from Ancient Greek ????? (mánna), from Hebrew ??? (m?n, “'manna”).

Noun

manna

1. (biblical) manna (food substance)
2. manna (any good thing)
3. semolina

Declension

Synonyms

• (any good thing): nanna (especially food)

Derived terms

• mannapuuro
• mannaryyni
• mannasuurimo

Anagrams

• manan

Gothic

Romanization

manna

1. Romanization of ????????????????????

Greenlandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /man?a/

Pronoun

manna

1. (demonstrative) proximal pronoun; this here, he/she/it here.
   • 2001 Louise Richter, for the Greenlandic Directorate of Culture, Education, Research and Ecclesiastical Affairs/Inerisaavik: "Kisitsineq/matematikki: Misilitsinnerit, naliliineq, atuartitsineq", p. 54

     Ukioq manna annertusisamik misilitsinnermi akissutit 431-iupput.

     This year, there were 431 answers to the expanded test.

Declension

See also

• una (“that nearby”)
• innga (“that yonder”)
• kanna (“that down a medial distance”)
• sanna (“that down a long distance”)
• pinnga (“that up a medial distance”)
• panna (“that up a long distance”)
• qanna (“that in there/out there”)
• anna (“that in the north”)
• kinnga (“that in the south/that outside”)

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?man?a/
• Rhymes: -an?a

Etymology 1

Verb

manna (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative mannaði, supine mannað)

1. to man

Conjugation

Noun

manna

1. indefinite genitive plural of maður

Etymology 2

Old Norse manna, from Late Latin manna.

Noun

manna n (genitive singular manna, no plural)

1. manna

Declension

Ingrian

Noun

manna

1. groats

Italian

Etymology

From Late Latin manna, from Ancient Greek ????? (mánna), from Hebrew ??? (m?n, “'manna”).

Noun

manna f (plural manne)

1. manna (all senses)

Related terms

• albero della manna
• frassino da manna
• manneto

Kavalan

Pronoun

manna

1. (interrogative) why

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (mánna), from Hebrew ??? (man).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?man.na/, [?män?ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?man.na/, [?m?n??]

Noun

manna f (genitive mannae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) manna

Declension

First-declension noun.

References

• manna in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• manna in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek ????? (mánna), from Hebrew ??? (m?n, “'manna”).

Noun

manna m (definite singular mannaen, indefinite plural mannaer or mannaar, definite plural mannaene or mannaane)

1. (biblical) manna
2. a sweetish tree sap, especially of the manna ash

Derived terms

• mannaask m
• mannalav n

Etymology 2

From mann (“man”) +? -a.

Alternative forms

• manne (e- and split infinitives)

Verb

manna (present tense mannar, past tense manna, past participle manna, passive infinitive mannast, present participle mannande, imperative mann)

1. to man

Derived terms

• mannast

References

• “manna” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• namna

Old Norse

Noun

manna

1. genitive plural indefinite of maðr

Sidamo

Etymology

From Proto-Cushitic. Cognates include Burji meena, Hadiyya manna and Kambaata manna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?man?a/

Noun

manna m

1. (collective) people

Derived terms

• (singulative): mancho

References

• Kazuhiro Kawachi (2007) A grammar of Sidaama (Sidamo), a Cushitic language of Ethiopia, page 38

Ter Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *m?n?.

Noun

manna

1. moon
2. month

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?^[2], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

English

Alternative forms

• ana

Etymology

From Hindi ???? (anna, “food, grain”), ??? (?n?), from Sanskrit ???? (anna).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æn?/

  Rhymes: -æn?

Noun

anna (plural annas)

1. A unit of currency in former British India equal to 12 pies or ¹?₁₆ rupee.

Translations

Anagrams

• A.A.N.N., Nana, anan, na-na, naan, nana

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?n?/

Noun

anná f 

1. aunt

References

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Finnish

(index an)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n???/, [??n??(?)]
• Rhymes: -?n??
• Syllabification: an?na

Verb

anna

1. Indicative present connegative form of antaa.
2. Second-person singular imperative present form of antaa.
3. Second-person singular imperative present connegative form of antaa.

Anagrams

• Nana, naan

Gothic

Romanization

anna

1. Romanization of ????????????????

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse anna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?an?a/
• Rhymes: -an?a

Verb

anna (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative annaði, supine annað)

1. (transitive, with dative) to manage, be able to do
2. (reflexive, with dative) to care for, see to

Conjugation

Related terms

• umönnun
• önn

Ingrian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?an?a/

Verb

anna

1. indicative present connegative of antaa
2. second-person singular imperative present of antaa

References

• Vitalij Chernyavskij (2005) Ižoran keel (Ittseopastaja)?^[2]

Japanese

Romanization

anna

1. R?maji transcription of ???

Latin

Verb

ann?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of ann?

References

• anna in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• anna in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• anna in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Norwegian Bokmål

Determiner

anna

1. feminine singular of annen
2. neuter singular of annen

Norwegian Nynorsk

Determiner

anna

1. feminine singular of annan
2. neuter singular of annan

Old Norse

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ann-a

Verb

anna

1. to be able to do
2. to bring to completion

Conjugation

Derived terms

• ?nn

References

• anna in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• anna in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• anna in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Pali

Alternative forms

Etymology 1

From Sanskrit ???? (anna, “food”)

Noun

anna n

1. food, especially boiled rice

Declension

Etymology 2

See ann?

Noun

anna

1. vocative singular of ann? (“mummy”)

Sidamo

Etymology

From Proto-Cushitic. Cognates include Burji anaa and Hadiyya anna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?an?a/

Noun

anna m (plural annuuwa f)

1. father

References

• Kazuhiro Kawachi (2007) A grammar of Sidaama (Sidamo), a Cushitic language of Ethiopia, page 82

Turkmen

Etymology

From Persian ????? âdine > adna > anna.

Noun

anna (definite accusative annany, plural annalar)

1. Friday