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manti en · NOUN

Etymology

The immediate source is Turkish mantı or Ottoman Turkish مانطی (mantı). Before that, the origin is obscure. The word was widespread in Central Asia by the 13th century. Possibly from Middle Chinese 饅頭 (man duw), which would make it a doublet of mandu, manju, and mantou.

Meanings

1. A type of dumpling served in Turkish, Armenian and Central Asian cuisine.
   • Crowding the table were miniature, hand-formed lamb dumplings called manti; flaky pastries, called boreks, filled with wild greens; and an elaborate paste of chicken, wheat and pistachios called keskek. 2007 December 5, Melissa Clark, “When It Looks at You, It’s Done”, in New York Times:
   • And they kept one of the national dishes, manti (pasta stuffed with ground beef served in garlic-yogurt sauce, $11.50), as well as lahmacun, sort of a Turkish pizza ($3), and arnavut cigeri (fried calf's liver and potatoes, $5.75), a hot appetizer. 1998 November 13, Ted Shen, “Restaurant Tours: Metin Kurtulus serves Turkey”, in Chicago Reader:

Forms

Translations (37)

tr mantı (type of dumpling) · ky мантуу (type of dumpling) · prs مَنْتُو (type of dumpling) · bg мантъ (type of dumpling) · cmn 土耳其饅頭 /土耳其馒头 (type of dumpling) · az mantı (type of dumpling) · ky манты (type of dumpling) · uz manti (type of dumpling) · tg манту (type of dumpling) · hy մանթի (type of dumpling) · ba манты (type of dumpling) · ru манту́ (type of dumpling) · he מֶנְטוּ (type of dumpling) · ru манты́ (type of dumpling) · kmr mantî (type of dumpling) · tyv манчы (type of dumpling) · fa-ira مَنْتو (type of dumpling) · ko 만트 (type of dumpling) · he מנטי (type of dumpling) · el μαντί (type of dumpling) · tt манты (type of dumpling) · ug مانتا (type of dumpling) · id manti (type of dumpling) · ps منتو (type of dumpling) · kmr xengel (type of dumpling) · cmn 突厥饅頭 /突厥馒头 (type of dumpling) · kk мәнті (type of dumpling) · ar مَنْتُو (type of dumpling) · sq manti (type of dumpling) · acw منتو (type of dumpling) · ru маньто́у (type of dumpling) · hy մանթ (type of dumpling) · ota مانطی (type of dumpling) · ja マンティ (type of dumpling) · cmn 曼特 (type of dumpling) · ru ма́ньтоу (type of dumpling) · ka მანთი (type of dumpling)