(New Zealand,diving)A method of diving similar to acannonball/bomb but with the lower back entering the water first, causing a large splash.
2013 February 22, Elisha Rolleston, “Best water bombs: Nothin' butmanus”, inStuff[1]:
For those that don't know what amanu is, you've got your standard bomb, which everyone does, where you curl up and enter the water feet first. But amanu is when you are in a v-shape and essentially your tailbone or lower back enters the water first while you hold that v-shape.
2022 February 23, Diane McCarthy, “Special space allocated formanus after near drowning”, inRNZ[2], archived fromthe original on23 February 2022:
An area of the outdoor pool at Whakatāne Aquatic Centre has been set aside formanus (bombing) after a nine-year-old boy nearly drowned last month.
“manu”, inKielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][6] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki:Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland),2004–, retrieved3 July 2023
Rina, A. Dj.; Kabba, John Lado B. (2011), “manu”, inKamus Bahasa Lamboya, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat [Dictionary of Lamboya Language, West Sumba Regency], Waikabubak: Dinas Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat, page65
“manu” 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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