manako

See also: Manako and manakō

Hadza

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /manako/

Noun

manako f (Note: the form after a determiner is mana)

  1. meat

Japanese

Romanization

manako

  1. Rōmaji transcription of まなこ

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *manako (compare with Rarotongan manako “to think, to consider”, Tahitian manaʻo “to think, to reflect”, Tongan manako “to desire”)[1][2]

Verb

manako (passive manakohia or manakotia)

  1. to long for, to yearn
  2. to miss
  3. to desire, to want
  4. to like

Noun

manako

  1. desire, wish, want
  2. longing, yearning
  3. anxiety

Derived terms

  • mānakonako

References

  1. ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 204
  2. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “manako”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559

Further reading

  • Williams, Herbert William (1917) “manako”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 201
  • “manako” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.
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