See also: Manti, mantí, mantī, and mantı

English edit

Uzbek manti
Turkish Kayseri manti

Etymology edit

The immediate source is Turkish mantı or Ottoman Turkish مانطی. Before that the origin is obscure. The word was widespread in central Asia by the 13th century. Chinese 饅頭馒头 (MC muɑn dəu, “steamed bun”) may be another borrowing, making manti a doublet of mandu, manju, and mantou.

Noun edit

manti (plural manti or manties)

  1. A type of dumpling served in Turkish and Central Asian cuisine
    • 1998 November 13, Ted Shen, “Restaurant Tours: Metin Kurtulus serves Turkey”, in Chicago Reader[2]:
      And they kept one of the national dishes, manti (pasta stuffed with ground beef served in garlic-yogurt sauce, $11.50), as well as lahmacun, sort of a Turkish pizza ($3), and arnavut cigeri (fried calf's liver and potatoes, $5.75), a hot appetizer.
    • 2007 December 5, Melissa Clark, “When It Looks at You, It’s Done”, in New York Times[3]:
      Crowding the table were miniature, hand-formed lamb dumplings called manti; flaky pastries, called boreks, filled with wild greens; and an elaborate paste of chicken, wheat and pistachios called keskek.

Translations edit

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Guinea-Bissau Creole edit

Etymology edit

From Portuguese manter. Cognate with Kabuverdianu manti "maintain".

Verb edit

manti

  1. to hold
  2. to keep
  3. to maintain

Indonesian edit

 
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Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈmanti/
  • Rhymes: -ti, -i
  • Hyphenation: man‧ti

Etymology 1 edit

From Minangkabau [Term?], from Pali mantī (minister), from Sanskrit मन्त्री (mantrī).[1] Doublet of mandarin, mantri, and menteri.

Noun edit

manti (plural manti-manti, first-person possessive mantiku, second-person possessive mantimu, third-person possessive mantinya)

  1. alternative spelling of menteri (minister)

Etymology 2 edit

From Turkish mantı or Ottoman Turkish مانطی with possible cognate of Chinese 饅頭馒头 (mántou).

Noun edit

manti (plural manti-manti, first-person possessive mantiku, second-person possessive mantimu, third-person possessive mantinya)

  1. (cooking) manti: A type of dumpling served in Turkish and Central Asian cuisine.

References edit

  1. ^ Tom Hoogervorst (2017 December 31) Andrea Acri, Roger Blench, Alexandra Landmann, editor, 9. The Role of “Prakrit” in Maritime Southeast Asia through 101 Etymologies[1], ISEAS Publishing, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 375–440

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Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈman.ti/
  • Rhymes: -anti
  • Hyphenation: màn‧ti

Etymology 1 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun edit

manti m

  1. plural of manto

Etymology 2 edit

From Ottoman Turkish مانطی (mantı) or Turkish mantı.

Noun edit

manti m (invariable)

  1. manti (meat-filled pockets of pasta in Turkey and Central Asia)

Anagrams edit

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Noun edit

manti

  1. vocative singular of mantin (counsellor)

Swazi edit

Etymology edit

From emanti.

Relative edit

-mânti

  1. wet

Inflection edit

Relative concord
Modifier Copulative
1st singular lengimanti ngimanti
2nd singular lomanti umanti
1st plural lesimanti simanti
2nd plural lenimanti nimanti
Class 1 lomanti umanti
Class 2 labamanti bamanti
Class 3 lomanti umanti
Class 4 lemanti imanti
Class 5 lelimanti limanti
Class 6 lamanti amanti
Class 7 lesimanti simanti
Class 8 letimanti timanti
Class 9 lemanti imanti
Class 10 letimanti timanti
Class 11 lolumanti lumanti
Class 14 lobumanti bumanti
Class 15 lokumanti kumanti
Class 17 lokumanti kumanti

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Noun edit

manti (definite accusative mantiyi, plural mantiler)

  1. (Lubunyaca) Young top (dominant partner in a BDSM relationship) (generally between ages 15 and 20).

Declension edit

Inflection
Nominative manti
Definite accusative mantiyi
Singular Plural
Nominative manti mantiler
Definite accusative mantiyi mantileri
Dative mantiye mantilere
Locative mantide mantilerde
Ablative mantiden mantilerden
Genitive mantinin mantilerin
Possessive forms
Nominative
Singular Plural
1st singular mantim mantilerim
2nd singular mantin mantilerin
3rd singular mantisi mantileri
1st plural mantimiz mantilerimiz
2nd plural mantiniz mantileriniz
3rd plural mantileri mantileri
Definite accusative
Singular Plural
1st singular mantimi mantilerimi
2nd singular mantini mantilerini
3rd singular mantisini mantilerini
1st plural mantimizi mantilerimizi
2nd plural mantinizi mantilerinizi
3rd plural mantilerini mantilerini
Dative
Singular Plural
1st singular mantime mantilerime
2nd singular mantine mantilerine
3rd singular mantisine mantilerine
1st plural mantimize mantilerimize
2nd plural mantinize mantilerinize
3rd plural mantilerine mantilerine
Locative
Singular Plural
1st singular mantimde mantilerimde
2nd singular mantinde mantilerinde
3rd singular mantisinde mantilerinde
1st plural mantimizde mantilerimizde
2nd plural mantinizde mantilerinizde
3rd plural mantilerinde mantilerinde
Ablative
Singular Plural
1st singular mantimden mantilerimden
2nd singular mantinden mantilerinden
3rd singular mantisinden mantilerinden
1st plural mantimizden mantilerimizden
2nd plural mantinizden mantilerinizden
3rd plural mantilerinden mantilerinden
Genitive
Singular Plural
1st singular mantimin mantilerimin
2nd singular mantinin mantilerinin
3rd singular mantisinin mantilerinin
1st plural mantimizin mantilerimizin
2nd plural mantinizin mantilerinizin
3rd plural mantilerinin mantilerinin
Predicative forms
Singular Plural
1st singular mantiyim mantilerim
2nd singular mantisin mantilersin
3rd singular manti
mantidir
mantiler
mantilerdir
1st plural mantiyiz mantileriz
2nd plural mantisiniz mantilersiniz
3rd plural mantiler mantilerdir

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