Feminine
maña
Meaning
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- (feminine) skill, aptitude, knack
- (feminine) trick (something designed to fool)
- (Latin-America, feminine) bad habit, vice, mania
- (Latin-America, feminine) bad temper, ill humor
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Hyphenated as
ma‧ña
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈmaɲa/
Etymology
In summary
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *mania (“manual skill”), from Latin manus (“hand”). The sense of "mania" may have been influenced by manía, from the (unrelated) Latin mania. Compare Portuguese manha.
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