Manila

See also: Appendix:Variations of "manila"

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Manila

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• Maynila (nonstandard)
• May-nilad (historical, based on an antiquarian and inaccurate etymology)
• Manilla (archaic, historical, misspelling)

Etymology

From Spanish Manila, from Tagalog Maynila, from may (“there is”) +‎ nila (“indigo”), Tagalog nila from Sanskrit नील (nīla).

Pronunciation

• (Philippines) IPA^(key): /mɐˈni.lɐ/
• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /məˈnɪl.ə/
• Hyphenation: ma‧ni‧la
• Rhymes: -ɪlə

• Audio (Canada):

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Proper noun

Manila

2. The capital city of the Philippines; regional capital of Metro Manila, in the island of Luzon.
   • 2007, Ronald Findlay, Kevin O'Rourke, Power and Plenty‎, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 173:

     Chinese traders, mostly from the southern ports of Amoy (Hsia-men) and Canton, took raw silk, fabrics, and apparel to Manila, where these cargoes were sold for silver and carried back for sale in the New World.

3. (loosely) Metro Manila, the National Capital Region (NCR).
4. (figuratively) The national government or administrative authority of the Philippines.
5. A small town, the county seat of Daggett County, Utah, United States.
6. A census-designated place in Humboldt County, California, United States.
7. A city in Mississippi County, Arkansas, United States

Derived terms

• Manila cheroot
• Manila cigar
• Manila hemp
• Manila paper
• New Manila

 

Translations

capital of the Philippines

Afrikaans: Manila Albanian: Manila f Amharic: ማኒላ (manila) Arabic: مَانِيلَا f (manīlā) Armenian: Մանիլա (Manila) Azerbaijani: Manila Basque: Manila Belarusian: Мані́ла f (Maníla), Мані́ля f (Manílja) Bengali: ম্যানিলা (mênila) Bikol Central: Manila (bcl) Bulgarian: Мани́ла f (Maníla) Burmese: မနီလာမြို့ (ma.nilamrui.) Catalan: Manila Cebuano: Manila Chavacano: Manila Chinese: Cantonese: 馬尼拉／马尼拉 (maa5 nei4 laai1) Hokkien: 馬尼拉／马尼拉 (Má-nî-la / Má-ní-la / Ma-ni-la), 岷尼拉 (Bîn-nî-la), 岷里拉 (Bîn-lí-la / Bīn-ní-la̍p) Mandarin: 馬尼拉／马尼拉 (zh) (Mǎnílā), 岷埠 (Mínbù) (obsolete) Czech: Manila (cs) f Danish: Manila (da) n Dutch: Manilla (nl) n Esperanto: Manilo (eo) Estonian: Manila (et) Farefare: Manila Finnish: Manila (fi) French: Manille (fr) f Galician: Manila (gl) Georgian: მანილა (ka) (manila) German: Manila (de) n Greek: Μανίλα (el) f (Maníla) Hebrew: מָנִילָה (he) f (manila) Hindi: मनीला m (manīlā) Hungarian: Manila (hu) Icelandic: Maníla Ilocano: Manila Indonesian: Manila Irish: Mainile f Italian: Manila (it) f Japanese: マニラ (ja) (Manira) Kannada: ಮನಿಲ (manila) Kapampangan: Menila Kazakh: Манила (Manila) Khmer: ម៉ានីល (km) (maaniil) Korean: 마닐라 (ko) (Manilla) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: مانیلا (manîla) Northern Kurdish: Manila Kyrgyz: Манила (Manila) Lao: ມະນີລາ (ma nī lā), ມານິລາ (mā ni lā) Latvian: Manila f Lithuanian: Manila (lt) f Macedonian: Манила f (Manila) Malay: Manila Malayalam: മനില (manila) Maltese: Manila f Maori: Manira Mongolian: Cyrillic: Манила (mn) (Manila) Navajo: Manííla Norwegian: Bokmål: Manila Pashto: مانيلا f (mānilã) Persian: مانیل (fa) (mânil) Polish: Manila (pl) f Portuguese: Manila (pt) f Romanian: Manila (ro) Russian: Мани́ла (ru) f (Maníla) Sambal: Ibali f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Ма̏нила f Roman: Mȁnila (sh) f Sinhalese: මැනිලා (mænilā) Slovak: Manila (sk) f Slovene: Manila f Spanish: Manila (es) f Swedish: Manila (sv) n Tagalog: Maynila Tajik: Манила (tg) (Manila) Tamil: மணிலா (maṇilā) Tatar: Манила (Manila) Telugu: మనీలా (manīlā) Thai: มะนิลา (th) (má-ní-laa) Tibetan: མ་ནི་ལ (ma ni la) Turkish: Manila (tr) Turkmen: Manila Ukrainian: Мані́ла f (Maníla), Мані́ля f (Manílja) Urdu: منیلا m (manīlā) Uyghur: مانىلا (manila) Uzbek: Manila Vietnamese: Manila (vi), Ma Ní, Mã Ni La Yiddish: מאַנילאַ n (manila)

Noun

Manila (plural Manilas)

1. Venerupis philippinarum; a Pacific clam.
2. Alternative form of manila (“kind of cheroot”)

Anagrams

• maalin, Almain, lamian, aminal, lamina, al-Amin, Milana, Alamin, animal, Animal, almain, Malian

Afrikaans

Afrikaans Wikipedia has an article on:

Manila

Wikipedia ^af

Proper noun

Manila

1. Manila (the capital city of the Philippines; regional capital of Metro Manila, in the island of Luzon)

Related terms

• Manileen
• Manileens

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Manila, from Tagalog Maynila.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maˈnila/ [mɐˈn̪i.l̪ɐ]
• IPA^(key): /maˈnilaʔ/ [mɐˈn̪i.l̪ɐʔ]
• Hyphenation: Ma‧ni‧la

Proper noun

Manila or Manilà (Badlit spelling ᜋᜈᜒᜎ)

1. Manila (the capital city of the Philippines; regional capital of Metro Manila, in the island of Luzon)
2. (loosely) Metro Manila, National Capital Region (a region and metropolitan area in the Philippines)
3. (historical) Manila (a former province of the Philippines)
4. (historical) Manila (the capital city of Spanish-era Philippines; modern Intramuros)

Derived terms

• Manilan-on

 

Related terms

• Manilenyo

 

Czech

Czech Wikipedia has an article on:

Manila

Wikipedia ^cs

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmanɪla]

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Manila f (related adjective manilský)

1. Manila (the capital city of the Philippines; regional capital of Metro Manila, in the island of Luzon)

Declension

	singular
nominative	Manila
genitive	Manily
dative	Manile
accusative	Manilu
vocative	Manilo
locative	Manile
instrumental	Manilou

Declension of Manila (sg-only hard feminine)

Further reading

• “Manila”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Manila, from Tagalog Maynila, from may (“there is”) +‎ nila (“indigo”), Tagalog nila from Sanskrit नील (nīla).

Proper noun

Manila n (proper noun, genitive Manilas or (optionally with an article) Manila)

1. Manila (the capital city of the Philippines; regional capital of Metro Manila, in the island of Luzon)

Indonesian

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

Manila

Wikipedia ^id

Etymology

From Dutch Manilla.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /maˈnila/ [maˈni.la]
• Rhymes: -ila
• Syllabification: Ma‧ni‧la

Proper noun

Manila

1. Manila (the capital of the Philippines)

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Manila, from Tagalog Maynila, from may (“there is”) +‎ nila (“indigo”), Tagalog nila from Sanskrit नील (nīla).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maˈni.la/
• Rhymes: -ila
• Hyphenation: Ma‧nì‧la

Proper noun

Manila f

1. Manila (the capital city of the Philippines; regional capital of Metro Manila, in the island of Luzon)

Anagrams

• lamina, manali

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

Manila

Wikipedia ^pl

Manila

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Manila.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maˈɲi.la/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ila
• Syllabification: Ma‧ni‧la
• Homophone: manila

Proper noun

Manila f (related adjective manilski)

1. Manila (the capital city of the Philippines)

Declension

	singular
nominative	Manila
genitive	Manili
dative	Manili
accusative	Manilę
instrumental	Manilą
locative	Manili
vocative	Manilo

Declension of Manila

Derived terms

nouns

• manila
• manilczyk
• manilka

 

Related terms

adjective

• manilowy

 

Further reading

• Manila in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Manila in PWN's encyclopedia

Portuguese

Etymology

From Spanish Manila, from Tagalog Maynila, from may (“there is”) +‎ nila (“indigo”), Tagalog nila from Sanskrit नील (nīla).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /maˈni.lɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /maˈni.lɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /maˈni.la/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mɐˈni.lɐ/

• Hyphenation: Ma‧ni‧la

Proper noun

Manila

1. Manila (the capital city of the Philippines; regional capital of Metro Manila, in the island of Luzon)

Serbo-Croatian

Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia has an article on:

Manila

Wikipedia ^sh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mânila/
• Hyphenation: Ma‧ni‧la

Proper noun

Mȁnila f (Cyrillic spelling Ма̏нила)

1. Manila (the capital city of the Philippines; regional capital of Metro Manila, in the island of Luzon)

Slovak

Slovak Wikipedia has an article on:

Manila

Wikipedia ^sk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmaɲila]

Proper noun

Manila f (genitive singular Manily, declension pattern of žena)

1. Manila (the capital city of the Philippines; regional capital of Metro Manila, in the island of Luzon)

References

• “Manila”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Tagalog Maynila, from may (“there is”) +‎ nila (“indigo”), Tagalog nila from Sanskrit नील (nīla).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maˈnila/ [maˈni.la]
• Rhymes: -ila
• Syllabification: Ma‧ni‧la

Proper noun

Manila f

1. Manila (the capital city of the Philippines; regional capital of Metro Manila, in the island of Luzon)

Derived terms

• cáñamo de Manila

 

Further reading

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

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Manila, itself from Tagalog Maynila.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /maˈnila/ [mɐˈn̪iː.lɐ]
    • Rhymes: -ila
  • IPA^(key): /maˈnilaʔ/ [mɐˈn̪iː.lɐʔ] (influence from Maynila)
    • Rhymes: -ilaʔ
• Syllabification: Ma‧ni‧la

Proper noun

Manila (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜈᜒᜎ) (informal)

1. Alternative form of Maynila

Related terms

• Kalakhang Maynila
• Kamaynilaan
• Manilense
• Manilenya
• Manilenyo

 

Descendants

• → Hokkien: 馬尼剌／马尼剌, 岷里納, 岷里刺, 岷唎喇, 民希臘／民希腊, 蠻哩喇／蛮哩喇, 呅哖膋／呅哖䒿 (obsolete)
• → Japanese: 馬尼剌 (Manira) (obsolete)
• → Mandarin: 馬尼剌／马尼剌 (Mǎnílà) (obsolete)

Further reading

• “Manila”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Santos, Vito C. (1978) Vicassan's Pilipino-English Dictionary, Revised edition (overall work in Tagalog and English), With an Introduction by Teodoro A. Agoncillo, Metro Manila: National Book Store, →ISBN, page 1172

Anagrams

• alamin, animal

Vietnamese

Vietnamese Wikipedia has an article on:

Manila

Wikipedia ^vi

Alternative forms

• Ma-ni-la

Etymology

From English Manila.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [maː˧˧ ni˧˧ laː˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [maː˧˧ nɪj˧˧ laː˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [maː˧˧ nɪj˧˧ laː˧˧]
• Phonetic spelling: ma ni la

Proper noun

Manila

1. Manila (the capital of the Philippines)

   Synonym: Ma Ní