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manu (plural manus )
( 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.
In the sense of a manufacturer; clipping of 'manufacturer'
manu (plural manus )
( manufacturing ) manufacturer 2022 May 13, Le Spirit Designs, “Breaking Up with my PinManu ?? How to Find Manufacturers on Alibaba”, inYouTube [3] :2023 November 11, Keishu13, “What is this type of pin called?”, inReddit [4] :But I'm having trouble tracking down amanu using that term.
2024 June 1, Sano Eli ✧ prismono.com🪻 (@prismonoart),Twitter [5] :Currently waiting on just one more of the Final Fantasy Tarot Card enamel pins to finish, so mymanu sent me this clip as a preview!
Brooke's Point Palawano[ edit ] manu
( interrogative ) why manu Click on labels in the image
Inherited fromLatin manus . CompareItalian mano .
IPA (key ) : /ˈma.nu/ Hyphenation:ma ‧nu manu f (plural mane or ( Southern ) mani )
hand “manu ” inINFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa manu
first-person singular present ofmanout manu
( interrogative ) how much From Proto-Central-Pacific*manu , fromProto-Oceanic *manuk , fromProto-Malayo-Polynesian *manuk , fromProto-Austronesian *manuk .
manu (plural manumanu )
bird ( animal ) FromEnglish manager , associated with the given nameManu .
IPA (key ) : /ˈmɑnu/ ,[ˈmɑ̝nu] Rhymes:-ɑnu Syllabification(key ) :ma‧nu Hyphenation(key ) :ma‧nu manu ( colloquial )
studio director Synonym: studio-ohjaaja Inherited fromProto-Malayo-Polynesian *manuk .
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bird FromProto-Nuclear Polynesian *manu , fromProto-Oceanic *manu , fromProto-Malayo-Polynesian *manuk , fromProto-Austronesian *manuk .
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bird ( animal ) FromProto-Malayo-Polynesian *manuk (cf.Tagalog manok ).
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chicken (Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium .)
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child FromProto-Nuclear Polynesian *manu , fromProto-Oceanic *manu , fromProto-Malayo-Polynesian *manuk , fromProto-Austronesian *manuk .
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chicken 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 manū f
ablative singular ofmanus manu
inflection ofmans : accusative / instrumental singular masculine / feminine genitive plural masculine / feminine manu
first-person singular present indicative ofmanīt manu
chicken FromProto-Nuclear Polynesian *manu , fromProto-Oceanic *manu , fromProto-Malayo-Polynesian *manuk , fromProto-Austronesian *manuk .
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bird ( animal ) kite a designated territory formuttonbirding . ( figuratively ) a person held in high esteem“manu ” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index , 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011,→ISBN . manu
bird ;chicken The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar ,2013 ,→ISBN , page685 manu
water J. &. M. Brown.,Mussau grammar essentials (2007) FromProto-West Germanic *manu . Near cognates includeOld Norse mǫn andOld High German mana .
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mane Strongu -stem:
Te manu. FromProto-Polynesian *manu . Cognates includeHawaiian manu andMāori manu .
IPA (key ) : /ˈma.nu/ Hyphenation:ma‧nu manu
bird Veronica Du Feu (1996 ),Rapanui (Descriptive Grammars), Routledge,→ISBN , page52 Paulus Kieviet (2017 ),A grammar of Rapa Nui [7] , Berlin: Language Science Press,→ISBN , page218 FromProto-Nuclear Polynesian *manu , fromProto-Oceanic *manu , fromProto-Malayo-Polynesian *manuk , fromProto-Austronesian *manuk .
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bird ( animal ) FromLatin manus . CompareCatalan mà ,French main ,Galician man ,Italian mano ,Occitan man ,Portuguese mão ,Romanian mână ,Spanish mano .
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hand FromLatin manus ( “ hand ” ) . Compareficu for a similar gender morphology.
manu f (plural manu )
The part of the forelimb below theforearm orwrist in a human, and the corresponding part in many other animals; ahand . That which is, or may be, held in a hand at once. ( card games ) The set ofcards held by a player.Around of a card game. ( obsolete ) A unit of measurement.Synonym: parmu Power of performance; means of execution; ability; skill; dexterity. An instance ofhelping .Turi ci desi namanu ad Alisia pi mòviri i mòbbili. Turi gave Alisia ahand to move the furniture. Handwriting ; style ofpenmanship .Personal possession; ownership. ( chiefly in theplural ) Management ,domain ,control .È sutta ê manu mei. He/she is under myhands . FromProto-Nuclear Polynesian *manu , fromProto-Oceanic *manu , fromProto-Malayo-Polynesian *manuk , fromProto-Austronesian *manuk .
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bird ( animal ) winged insect Lemaître, Yves (1995 ),Lexique du tahitien contemporain [Current Tahitian lexicon ][8] (in French), Paris: Éditions de l'Orstom,→ISBN FromProto-Malayo-Polynesian *manuk , compareMalay manuk .
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bird chicken IPA (key ) : [ˈma.nu] Hyphenation:ma‧nu Te manu (1.1/1.2). FromProto-Polynesian *manu . Cognates includeHawaiian manu andSamoan manu .
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animal ,beast ( specifically ) bird Theupright piece of a canoe'sfront orback . manu
( transitive ) topush ( transitive ) tostrike R. Simona, editor (1986 ),Tokelau Dictionary [9] , Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page218 manu
animal Pamphlets in the Tonga language , "Koe Hisitolia o Natula",page 58 :Oku faa vahe ae kalasi huhu kihe faahiga e hiva, o behe:—1. Koemanu nima ua (Bimana) There are nine things like parts called the classes which have breasts, like so:—1. The animals with two hands (Bimana)