manta

See also: MANTA, Manta, mantā, mäntä, -manta, and Man-ta

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish manta (“blanket”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmæn.tə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

manta (plural mantas)

1. A kind of fabric or blanket used in Latin America and southwestern United States.
2. A manta ray (Mobula spp.).

Derived terms

• Alfred manta (Mobula alfredi)
• giant manta (Mobula birostris)

Anagrams

• Tamna, atman, manat

Asturian

Noun

manta f (plural mantes)

1. blanket

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [ˈman.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈman.ta]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Etymology 1

Compare Spanish manta.

Noun

manta f (plural mantes)

1. blanket
2. manta ray

Etymology 2

Adjective

manta

1. feminine singular of mant

Further reading

• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “manta”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Cebuano

Etymology

From English manta ray, from Spanish manta.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: man‧ta

Noun

manta

1. a manta ray; any of several very large pelagic rays of the genus Manta

Central Bikol

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /manˈtaʔ/ [man̪ˈtaʔ]
• Hyphenation: man‧ta

Conjunction

mantâ (Basahan spelling ᜋᜈ᜔ᜆ)

1. (formal) while/whilst

Derived terms

• mantang

Chavacano

Etymology

Inherited from Spanish manta (“blanket”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmanta/, [ˈmãn̪.t̪a]
• Hyphenation: man‧ta

Noun

manta

1. blanket

Galician

Etymology

Attested from the 11th century in local Medieval Latin documents. From manto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmanta̝/

Noun

manta f (plural mantas)

1. blanket

   Synonym: cobertor

   • 1327, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros, Vigo: Galaxia, page 79:

     e proueam á dita albergaría de leytos e de feltros et mantas e de cubertas e manteñan y hun ome e hua moller que aguarde a roupa e faça os leytos aos doentes e os caldos quando lles conpryr

     and they should provide that hospital with beds and felts and blankets and covers, and they should keep there a man and a woman who should guard the clothes and make the beds of the sick and the hot soup when they would need it

2. runner stone (upper millstone)
3. fry shoal

Derived terms

• a manta

References

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “manta”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “manta”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “manta”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “manta”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Ilocano

Etymology

From Spanish manta.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: man‧ta
• IPA^(key): /ˈmanta/

Noun

manta

1. blanket

Kongo

Verb

manta

1. to climb

Latvian

Noun

manta f (4th declension)

1. property

   valsts manta ― state, public property

   mantas nodoklis ― property tax

   mantas konfiskācija ― confiscation of property

   personiskā manta ― personal property

   novēlēt savu mantu bērniem ― bequeath his property to (his) children

2. wealth, riches

   viņš izšķiedies svešu mantu ― he is wasting someone else's wealth

   atrast apslēptu mantu ― to find the hidden treasure

3. things, objects

   vecu mantu uzpircējs ― old things dealer

Declension

Declension of manta (4th)

	singular	plural
nominative	manta	mantas
genitive	mantas	mantu
dative	mantai	mantām
accusative	mantu	mantas
instrumental	mantu	mantām
locative	mantā	mantās
vocative	manta	mantas

Derived terms

• mantība
• mantīgs, mantīgums
• nemantīgs

Malagasy

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mətaq, compare Indonesian mentah, Māori mata.

Adjective

manta

1. raw (uncooked)

North Moluccan Malay

Etymology

From Malay mentah.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈman.ta/
• Hyphenation: man‧ta

Noun

manta

1. raw; unripe

   ikang manta

   raw fish

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 𑀫𑀦𑁆𑀢 (Brahmi script)
• मन्त (Devanagari script)
• মন্ত (Bengali script)
• මන‍්ත (Sinhalese script)
• မန္တ or မၼ္တ or မၼ်တ (Burmese script)
• มนฺต or มันตะ (Thai script)
• ᨾᨶ᩠ᨲ (Tai Tham script)
• ມນ຺ຕ or ມັນຕະ (Lao script)
• មន្ត (Khmer script)
• 𑄟𑄚𑄴𑄖 (Chakma script)

Etymology

From Sanskrit मन्त्र (mantra).

Noun

manta n

1. charm, spell, incantation

Declension

Declension table of "manta" (neuter)

Case / Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	mantaṃ	mantāni
Accusative (second)	mantaṃ	mantāni
Instrumental (third)	mantena	mantehi or mantebhi
Dative (fourth)	mantassa or mantāya or mantatthaṃ	mantānaṃ
Ablative (fifth)	mantasmā or mantamhā or mantā	mantehi or mantebhi
Genitive (sixth)	mantassa	mantānaṃ
Locative (seventh)	mantasmiṃ or mantamhi or mante	mantesu
Vocative (calling)	manta	mantāni

Papantla Totonac

Noun

manta inan

1. sweet potato

References

• Crescencio García Ramos, Diccionario Básico Totonaco-Español Español-Totonaco (Xalapa, Academia Veracruzana de las Lenguas Indígenas, 2007)

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈman.ta/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -anta
• Syllabification: man‧ta

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish manta.

Noun

manta f

1. manta ray

Declension

Declension of manta

	singular	plural
nominative	manta	manty
genitive	manty	mant
dative	mancie	mantom
accusative	mantę	manty
instrumental	mantą	mantami
locative	mancie	mantach
vocative	manto	manty

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

manta n

1. inflection of manto:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Further reading

• “manta”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)

Portuguese

Etymology

From manto.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmɐ̃.tɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmɐ̃.tɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmɐ̃.ta/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmɐ̃.tɐ/

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃tɐ
• Hyphenation: man‧ta

Noun

manta f (plural mantas)

1. blanket
2. manta ray

   Synonym: raia

Further reading

• “manta”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “manta”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Romanian

Etymology

Ultimately from French manteau, probably through the intermediate of another language.

Noun

manta f (plural mantale)

1. mantle, cloak, wrap

Related terms

• mantie, mantă

Spanish

Etymology

From manto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmanta/ [ˈmãn̪.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -anta
• Syllabification: man‧ta

Noun

manta f (plural mantas)

1. blanket, cloth, cloth banner

   Synonyms: cobija, colcha, frazada, frisa

2. poncho
3. a fish trap shaped like a blanket
4. (ichthyology) manta ray

   Synonyms: mantarraya, manta gigante

Derived terms

• a manta
• echarse la manta
• manta gigante
• mantilla
• mantudo
• pulpo manta
• tirar de la manta

Descendants

• Chavacano: manta
• → Cebuano: manta
• → English: manta; manta ray
• → French: manta
• → Ilocano: manta
• → Polish: manta
• → Tagalog: manta

Further reading

• “manta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish manta.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈmanta/ [ˈman̪.t̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -anta
• Syllabification: man‧ta

Noun

manta (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜈ᜔ᜆ)

1. mantle (clothing)

Further reading

• “manta”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018

Yankunytjatjara

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmanta/

Noun

manta

1. earth, soil
2. land

References

• "manta" in Cliff Goddard (1992), Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara to English Dictionary, 2nd edition