Manila

See also: manila, manilą, Manilą, and manilla

English

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /məˈnɪl.ə/
• Hyphenation: ma‧nila
• Rhymes: -ɪlə

• Audio (CA)

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Proper noun

Manila

1. The capital city of the Philippines, located on the island of Luzon, specifically the city of Manila or Intramuros.
   • 2007, Findlay, Ronald; O'Rourke, Kevin, Power and Plenty‎^[1], Princeton University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 2007931677, OCLC 1204059663, 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.

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

Derived terms

Derived terms

• Manila cheroot
• Manila cigar

• Manila hemp
• Manila paper

Translations

capital of the Philippines

• Albanian: Manila f
• Amharic: ማኒላ (manila)
• Arabic: مَانِيلَا‎ f (manīlā)
• Armenian: Մանիլա (Manila)
• Azerbaijani: Manila
• Belarusian: Мані́ла f (Maníla), Мані́ля f (Manílja)
• Bengali: ম্যানিলা (mjanila)
• Bikol Central: Manila (bcl)
• Bulgarian: Мани́ла f (Maníla)
• Burmese: မနီလာမြို့ (ma.nila-mrui.)
• Cebuano: Manila
• Chavacano: Manila
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 馬尼拉, 马尼拉 (maa⁵ nei⁴ laai¹)

  Mandarin: 馬尼拉 (zh), 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
• Finnish: Manila (fi)
• French: Manille (fr) f
• Georgian: მანილა (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)
• Kazakh: Манила (Manïla)
• Khmer: ម៉ានីល (km) (maaniil)
• Korean: 마닐라 (ko) (Manilla)
• Kurdish:

  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
• Maltese: Manila f
• 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)
• Thai: มะนิลา (th) (má-ní-laa)
• Tibetan: མ་ནི་ལ (ma ni la)
• Turkish: Manila
• Turkmen: Manila
• Ukrainian: Мані́ла f (Maníla), Мані́ля f (Manílja)
• Urdu: منیلا‎ m (manīlā)
• Uyghur: مانىلا‎ (manila)
• Uzbek: Manila
• Vietnamese: Ma Ní, Ma-ni-la
• Yiddish: מאַנילאַ‎ n (manila)

Noun

Manila (plural Manilas)

1. Venerupis philippinarum; a Pacific clam.

Anagrams

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

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Cebuano

Etymology

From Spanish Manila, from Tagalog Maynila.

Proper noun

Manila

1. Manila (the capital city of the Philippines)
2. (loosely) Metro Manila, the National Capital Region (NCR).
3. (historical) Manila (a former province of the Philippines)
4. (historical) Intramuros
5. A town in Utah, United States

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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)

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Italian

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Manila f

1. Manila (the capital city of the Philippines)

Anagrams

• lamina, manali

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maˈɲi.la/

• Audio

  (file)

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

Proper noun

Manila f

1. Manila (the capital city of the Philippines)

Declension

Declension of Manila

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

Derived terms

adjective

• manilski

 

nouns

• manilczyk
• manilka

 

Further reading

• Manila in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Manila in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Brazil) /maˈni.lɐ/, [maˈni.lɐ]

• IPA^(key): (Portugal) /mɐˈni.lɐ/, [mɐˈni.lɐ]

Proper noun

Manila f

1. Manila (the capital city of the Philippines)

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Mȁnila f (Cyrillic spelling Ма̏нила)

1. Manila (the capital city of the Philippines)

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Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmanila]

Proper noun

Manila f (genitive Manily, declension pattern of žena)

1. Manila (the capital of the Philippines)

References

• Manila in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

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Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maˈnila/, [maˈni.la]

Proper noun

Manila f

1. Manila (the capital city of the Philippines)