manta

Spanish manta (“blanket”)

manta (plural mantas)

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

• atman, manat

manta f (plural mantes)

1. blanket

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈman.tə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈman.ta/

manta f (plural mantes)

1. blanket
2. manta ray

From English manta ray, from Spanish manta.

• Hyphenation: man‧ta

manta

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

From Spanish manta (“blanket”).

manta

1. blanket

Attested from the 11th century in local Medieval Latin documents. From manto.[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈmanta̝/

manta f (plural mantas)

1. blanket
   • 1327, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), 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

   Synonym: cobertor

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

• a manta

• “manta” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “manta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “manta” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “manta” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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

• mantība
• mantīgs, mantīgums
• nemantīgs

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

manta

1. raw (uncooked)

From Sanskrit मन्त्र (mantra).

manta n

1. charm, spell, incantation

From manto.

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmɐ̃.tɐ/
• Hyphenation: man‧ta

manta f (plural mantas)

1. blanket

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

manta f (plural mantale)

1. mantle, cloak, wrap

• mantie, mantă

See manto

manta f (plural mantas)

1. blanket, cloth, cloth banner
2. poncho
3. a fish trap shaped like a blanket
4. manta ray

• cobija
• colcha
• frazada

• IPA^(key): /ˈmanta/

manta

1. earth, soil
2. land

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