معنا

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• معنی (mana)

Etymology

From Arabic مَعْنًى (maʕnan).

Noun

معنا • (mana)

1. meaning, sense
2. motive
3. spirit, soul, essence, ideal
4. dream, vision

Descendants

• Turkish: mana

Further reading

• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “mana”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mana¹”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 3, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3043
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “معنا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1196b