different between manna vs canna

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?kæn?/
• Rhymes: -æn?

Etymology 1

From Latin canna (“reed”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (kánn?, “reed”), from Akkadian ???????????????? (qanûm). Cognates Biblical Hebrew ?????? (qané), Aramaic ???????? (qany?), Classical Syriac ????? (qanya), and English cane, canon, cannon, canal, and channel.

Wikispecies

Noun

canna (plural cannas)

1. Any member of the genus Canna of tropical plants with large leaves and often showy flowers.
   • 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate 2011, p. 7:

     A palisade of Canary palms formed an honour guard along the verges, while beds of golden cannas flamed from the central reservation.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Scots cannae.

Contraction

canna

1. (Scotland, Jamaican) Contraction of can not; cannot.

Translations

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Italian canna. Doublet of cane.

Noun

canna (plural cannas)

1. (historical) A measure of length in Italy, varying from six to seven feet.

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: cannas, cannât

Verb

canna

1. third-person singular past historic of canner

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish cann, canna (“can, vessel”), borrowed from Old English canne.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kan???/

Noun

canna m (genitive singular canna, nominative plural cannaí)

1. can

Declension

Derived terms

Mutation

Further reading

• "canna" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “cann”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Entries containing “canna” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “canna” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Italian

Etymology

From Latin canna, from Ancient Greek ?????? (kánn?, “reed”), from Akkadian ???????????????? (qanûm, “reed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kan.na/
• Rhymes: -anna
• Hyphenation: càn?na

Noun

canna f (plural canne)

1. cane
2. barrel (of a gun)

3. (fishing) rod

4. tube, pipe (on a pump organ or a trachea)

5. chute
6. (slang) joint

   Synonym: spinello

7. (historical) traditional unit of measure

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? English: canna

Related terms

Verb

canna

1. third-person singular present indicative of cannare
2. second-person singular imperative of cannare

Jamaican Creole

Alternative forms

• cyaan

Etymology

From English cannot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kan?/
• Hyphenation: ca?nna

Verb

canna

1. (rare) Alternative form of cyaan.

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ?????? (kánn?, “reed”), from Akkadian ???????????????? (qanûm, “reed”). Compare Biblical Hebrew ?????? (qané), Aramaic ???????? (qany?) or ??????? (qany?) and Classical Syriac ??????? (qanyo).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?kan.na/, [?kän?ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?kan.na/, [?k?n??]

Noun

canna f (genitive cannae); first declension

1. A reed, cane.

   Synonyms: calamus, harund?

2. (by extension) Anything made of reed or cane; reed-pipe, flute; gondola; windpipe.

   Synonyms: harund?, t?bia

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

References

• canna in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• canna in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• canna in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• canna in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• canna in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, Hahnsche Buchhandlung

Portuguese

Noun

canna f (plural cannas)

1. Obsolete spelling of cana

Scots

Etymology

can +? -na

Verb

canna

1. Orkney form of cannae (“cannot”)

Sicilian

Etymology

From Latin canna, from Ancient Greek ?????? (kánn?, “reed”), from Akkadian ???????????????? (qanûm, “reed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka?n.n??/, [?kä?n?.n???]
• Hyphenation: càn?na

Noun

canna f (plural canni)

1. reed, stick, rattan; a cane, rod, instrument, or other item made out of such material
2. barrel (as of a gun or cannon)
3. tube, pipe (as on a pump organ or a trachea)

Derived terms

• cannolu, cannoli
• cannuolu, cannuoli