mañana en · ADV
Pronunciation
- /məˈnjæ.nə/
- (US) audio
- /məˈnjɑː.nə/
- /mɑːˈnjɑː.nə/
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish mañana.
Meanings
- (US, in Spanish-speaking contexts, not-comparable) Tomorrow.
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(humorous, not-comparable) At some unspecified time in the future.
The plumber said he would come tomorrow. But I think he will probably be here mañana.
“[With]^([sic]) the Greek government it is every time ‘mañana’,” said Lithuania’s president, Dalia Grybauskaitė, one of the Greek government’s harshest critics. “It can always be ‘mañana’ every day.”
2015 July 7, Ian Traynor, Larry Elliott, quoting Dalia Grybauskaitė, “Greece given days to agree bailout deal or face banking collapse and euro exit”, in The Guardian:The answer was always a harassed smile and a promise that there should be machine-gun instruction mañana. Needless to say mañana never came.
1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter I, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC, page 9:When doing business, they [linear-actives] are keen on punctual performance, quality, and reliable delivery dates. Mañana behavior and overloquacity are frowned upon.
2003, Richard D[onald] Lewis, “The Categorization of Cultures”, in The Cultural Imperative: Global Trends in the 21ˢᵗ Century, Yarmouth, Me.: Intercultural Press, →ISBN, chapter 4 (Cross-Century Worldviews), page 71:Oh, my sweet Diana, I can't wait for the manana / There's a hotel down in Mexico just made for two
1978, “Dirty Weekend”, in Blondes Have More Fun, performed by Rod Stewart:He swore he was coming to New York to join me. I pictured him in New York, putting off everything till mañana.
1957 September 5, Jack Kerouac, chapter 13, in On the Road, London: Penguin Books, published 1976, →ISBN, part 1, page 99:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| manana | alternative | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Translations (4)
fi joskus tulevaisuudessa (some time in the future) · nb en eller annen gang (some time in the future) · sv någon gång (some time in the future) · nl ooit (some time in the future)