See also: manana

English edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Spanish mañana.

Pronunciation edit

Adverb edit

mañana (not comparable)

  1. (US, in Spanish-speaking contexts) Tomorrow.
  2. (humorous) Some unspecified time in the future.
    The plumber said he would come tomorrow. But I think he will probably be here mañana.
    • 1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 13, in On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC, part 1:
      He swore he was coming to New York to join me. I pictured him in New York, putting off everything till manana.
    • 1978, “Dirty Weekend”, in Blondes Have More Fun, performed by Rod Stewart:
      Oh, my sweet Diana, I can't wait for the manana / There's a hotel down in Mexico just made for two
    • 2015 July 7, Ian Traynor, Larry Elliott, quoting Dalia Grybauskaitė, “Greece given days to agree bailout deal or face banking collapse and euro exit”, in The Guardian[1]:
      “[With][sic] the Greek government it is every time ‘mañana’,” said Lithuania’s president, Dalia Grybauskaitė, one of the Greek government’s harshest critics. “It can always be ‘mañana’ every day.”

Derived terms edit

Translations edit

Asturian edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *māneāna, from Latin māne.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /maˈɲana/, [maˈɲa.na]
  • (file)

Adverb edit

mañana

  1. tomorrow

Noun edit

mañana f (plural mañanes)

  1. morning

Spanish edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Old Spanish mañana or mannana (literally tomorrow morning), from Vulgar Latin *māneāna, from Latin māne, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂-. Compare Portuguese manhã.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /maˈɲana/ [maˈɲa.na]
  • Rhymes: -ana
  • Syllabification: ma‧ña‧na

Adverb edit

mañana

  1. tomorrow
    Synonym: (obsolete) cras
    pasado mañanathe day after tomorrow
    mañana por la mañanatomorrow morning
  2. soon, shortly
    Synonyms: pronto, en breve

Noun edit

mañana f (plural mañanas)

  1. the morning
    Synonym: matino
    Hyponym: madrugada
    las ocho de la mañanaeight in the morning
    Él se levanta por las mañanas.
    He gets up in the mornings.

Noun edit

mañana m (plural mañanas)

  1. the near future; tomorrow
    en un día del mañanasomeday in the near future

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

  • Chavacano: mañana

See also edit

Further reading edit