manta

Borrowed from Spanish manta (“blanket”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmæn.tə/

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manta (plural mantas)

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

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

• Tamna, atman, manat

manta f (plural mantes)

1. blanket

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

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Compare Spanish manta.

manta f (plural mantes)

1. blanket
2. manta ray

manta

1. feminine singular of mant

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

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

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

mantâ (Basahan spelling ᜋᜈ᜔ᜆ)

1. (formal) while/whilst

Inherited from Spanish manta (“blanket”).

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

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

   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

• a manta

• 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

From Spanish manta.

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

manta

1. blanket

manta

1. to climb

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, Māori mata.

manta

1. raw (uncooked)

From Malay mentah.

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

manta

1. raw; unripe

   ikang manta

   raw fish

From Sanskrit मन्त्र (mantra).

manta n

1. charm, spell, incantation

manta inan

1. sweet potato

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈman.ta/

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• Rhymes: -anta
• Syllabification: man‧ta

Borrowed from Spanish manta.

manta f

1. manta ray

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

manta n

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

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

From manto.

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃tɐ
• Hyphenation: man‧ta

manta f (plural mantas)

1. blanket
2. manta ray

   Synonym: raia

• “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

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

manta f (plural mantale)

1. mantle, cloak, wrap

• mantie, mantă

From manto.

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

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

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

• “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

Borrowed from Spanish manta.

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

manta (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜈ᜔ᜆ)

1. mantle (clothing)

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈmanta/

manta

1. earth, soil
2. land

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