Manila

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Manila

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

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

• (Philippines) IPA^(key): /mɐˈni.lɐ/
• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /məˈnɪl.ə/
• Hyphenation: ma‧ni‧la
• Rhymes: -ɪlə

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Manila

2. The capital city of the Philippines; regional capital of Metro Manila, in the island of Luzon.

   Meronyms: Binondo, Ermita, Intramuros, Malate, Paco, Pandacan, Port Area, Quiapo, Sampaloc, San Andres, San Miguel, San Nicolas, Santa Ana, Santa Cruz, Santa Mesa, Tondo — districts of Manila

   • 2007, Ronald Findlay, Kevin O'Rourke, Power and Plenty‎^[1], Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, 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.

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

Manila (plural Manilas)

1. Venerupis philippinarum; a Pacific clam.
2. Alternative form of manila (“kind of cheroot”)

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

Afrikaans Wikipedia has an article on:

Manila

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Manila

1. Manila (the capital city of the Philippines; regional capital of Metro Manila, in the island of Luzon)

• Manileen
• Manileens

Borrowed from Spanish Manila, from Tagalog Maynila.

• IPA^(key): /maˈnila/ [mɐˈn̪i.l̪ɐ]
• IPA^(key): /maˈnilaʔ/ [mɐˈn̪i.l̪ɐʔ]
• Hyphenation: Ma‧ni‧la

Manila or Manilà (Badlit spelling ᜋᜈᜒᜎ)

1. Manila (the capital city of the Philippines; regional capital of Metro Manila, in the island of Luzon)
2. (loosely) Metro Manila, National Capital Region (a region and metropolitan area in the Philippines)
3. (historical) Manila (a former province of the Philippines)
4. (historical) Manila (the capital city of Spanish-era Philippines; modern Intramuros)

Czech Wikipedia has an article on:

Manila

Wikipedia ^cs

• IPA^(key): [ˈmanɪla]

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Manila f (related adjective manilský)

1. Manila (the capital city of the Philippines; regional capital of Metro Manila, in the island of Luzon)

• “Manila”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

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

Manila n (proper noun, genitive Manilas or (optionally with an article) Manila)

1. Manila (the capital city of the Philippines; regional capital of Metro Manila, in the island of Luzon)

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

Manila

Wikipedia ^id

From Dutch Manilla.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /maˈnila/ [maˈni.la]
• Rhymes: -ila
• Syllabification: Ma‧ni‧la

Manila

1. Manila (the capital of the Philippines)

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

• IPA^(key): /maˈni.la/
• Rhymes: -ila
• Hyphenation: Ma‧nì‧la

Manila f

1. Manila (the capital city of the Philippines; regional capital of Metro Manila, in the island of Luzon)

• lamina, manali

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

Manila

Wikipedia ^pl

Borrowed from Spanish Manila.

• IPA^(key): /maˈɲi.la/

• Audio:

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

Manila f (related adjective manilski)

1. Manila (the capital city of the Philippines)

• Manila in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Manila in PWN's encyclopedia

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

• Hyphenation: Ma‧ni‧la

Manila

1. Manila (the capital city of the Philippines; regional capital of Metro Manila, in the island of Luzon)

Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia has an article on:

Manila

Wikipedia ^sh

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

Mȁnila f (Cyrillic spelling Ма̏нила)

1. Manila (the capital city of the Philippines; regional capital of Metro Manila, in the island of Luzon)

Slovak Wikipedia has an article on:

Manila

Wikipedia ^sk

• IPA^(key): [ˈmaɲila]

Manila f (genitive singular Manily, declension pattern of žena)

1. Manila (the capital city of the Philippines; regional capital of Metro Manila, in the island of Luzon)

• “Manila”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024

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

• IPA^(key): /maˈnila/ [maˈni.la]
• Rhymes: -ila
• Syllabification: Ma‧ni‧la

Manila f

1. Manila (the capital city of the Philippines; regional capital of Metro Manila, in the island of Luzon)

• “Manila”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

Borrowed from Spanish Manila, itself from Tagalog Maynila.

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /maˈnila/ [mɐˈn̪iː.lɐ]
    • Rhymes: -ila
  • IPA^(key): /maˈnilaʔ/ [mɐˈn̪iː.lɐʔ] (influence from Maynila)
    • Rhymes: -ilaʔ
• Syllabification: Ma‧ni‧la

Manila (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜈᜒᜎ) (informal)

1. Alternative form of Maynila

• → Hokkien: 馬尼剌／马尼剌, 岷里納, 岷里刺, 岷唎喇, 民希臘／民希腊, 蠻哩喇／蛮哩喇, 呅哖膋／呅哖䒿 (obsolete)
• → Japanese: 馬尼剌 (Manira) (obsolete)
• → Mandarin: 馬尼剌／马尼剌 (Mǎnílà) (obsolete)

• “Manila”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Santos, Vito C. (1978) Vicassan's Pilipino-English Dictionary, Revised edition (overall work in Tagalog and English), With an Introduction by Teodoro A. Agoncillo, Metro Manila: National Book Store, →ISBN, page 1172

• alamin, animal

Vietnamese Wikipedia has an article on:

Manila

Wikipedia ^vi

• Ma-ni-la

From English Manila.

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [maː˧˧ ni˧˧ laː˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [maː˧˧ nɪj˧˧ laː˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [maː˧˧ nɪj˧˧ laː˧˧]
• Phonetic spelling: ma ni la

Manila

1. Manila (the capital of the Philippines)

   Synonym: Ma Ní