manea

See also: mânea and Manea

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish مانی (mani, “poem”), from Arabic مَعْنًى (maʕnan).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.ˈne̯a/
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: ma‧neá

Noun

manea f (plural manele)

1. a type of folk music (often involving love songs) with originally Turkish and/or Middle Eastern influences

Usage notes

As a modern genre of music, it is most commonly referred to in its plural form, manele.

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	manea	maneaua		manele	manelele
genitive-dative	manele	manelei		manele	manelelor
vocative	manea			manelelor

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maˈnea/ [maˈne.a]
• Rhymes: -ea
• Syllabification: ma‧ne‧a

Etymology 1

Deverbal from manear.

Noun

manea f (plural maneas)

1. hobble

   Synonyms: traba, suelta, atadura

Etymology 2

Verb

manea

1. inflection of manear:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “manea”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10