# manita
## English

Wikispecies

### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish manita (“little hand”), feminine-form diminutive of mano (“hand”), because the small red flowers of the tree resemble five-fingered human hands.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /məˈniːtə/

### Noun

manita (plural manitas)
* (rare) The tree Chiranthodendron pentadactylon, or the red, hand-like flower this tree produces.
** 1828, Mark Beaufoy, Mexican illustrations, founded upon facts, page 230:[…] The manita tree,* so named from the singular formation of its flower, a drawing of which is placed as the frontispiece of this book, is a species of plant almost unknown in the catalogues of botanists. Manita means a little hand.
** 1829 October 3, in the Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette, number 321, page 112:
    Tradition states, that though the Indians did not actually worship the manita tree, yet they regarded the flower with a sort of religious veneration.
** 1838, John Murray, The economy of vegetation, or phœnomena of plants, page 159:The curious manita, or ‘hand tree,’ near the city of Mexico, is another of these curiosities.
** circa 1846, Traveling Sketches, from a work by Waddy Thompson, republished in the Rural Repository (1846 July 18), volume 22, number 23, page 181:
    […] with high walls on every side but open at the top and certainly not exceeding 80 feet square, and this is the botanic garden of the palace of Mexico; a few shrubs and plants and the celebrated manita tree, are all that it contains.
** 1852, Victoria Alexandrina M.L. Gregory, A young traveller's journal of a tour in North and South America during the year 1850:Close by was a plant of the manita, a flower which the Aztecs used to worship ; it is in the form of a hand, with four fingers and a thumb : this they imagined to be the hand of one of their most powerful deities, and adored it ; its colour is a brilliant scarlet.
** 1928, Ernest Gruening, Mexico and its heritage, page 74:Here one finds among remedies for every organ and ailment, manita, whose red flower, shaped like thumb and four fingers gives its name “the little hand.”
** 2000, Stephen Harrigan, The Gates of the Alamo: A Novel:A sign nailed to a manita tree read “Jardín Botánica.” Edmund surveyed this pathetic place in disbelief. The botanic garden of the Palace of Mexico was cramped, airless, light-starved, and populated with meager, untended specimens — […]

#### Synonyms

* Devil's hand tree, devil's hand tree; Mexican hand tree; handflower, handflower tree; macpalxochitl

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* Maniat, Mantia, animat, manati

## Cebuano
### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: ma‧ni‧ta

### Noun

manita
* the female participant of a manito manita

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maˈnita/ [maˈni.t̪a]
* Rhymes: -ita
* Syllabification: ma‧ni‧ta

### Etymology 1

From mano +‎ -ita. Football sense from the five fingers representing the five scored goals.

#### Noun

manita f (plural manitas)
* diminutive of mano, little hand
    Synonym: manito
* (soccer) wave (to show the hand wide open to the rival public) to indicate that the match was won 5-0 or 0-5

##### Derived terms

* hacer manitas (touching and carressing each other's hands)

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

manita f (plural manitas)
* Clipping of hermanita.

### Further reading

* “manita”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Turkish
### Etymology

First used in 1882, as Ottoman Turkish [script needed] (mantinota, “mistress”), from Italian mantenuta (“kept woman”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maˈni.ta/
* Hyphenation: ma‧ni‧ta

### Noun

manita (definite accusative manitayı, plural manitalar)
* girlfriend, chick
** 1882, Ahmed Midhat Efendi, (Please provide the book title or journal name):mantinota: "metres, sürekli görülen hayat kadını"mantinota: "mistress, regularly seen courtesan"
** 2009, “Evdeki Ses [The Voice in the House]”, in Şehr-i Hüzün [City of Sorrow], performed by maNga:Uzun lafın kısası Ankara'da başladı / Melez bir manita yanıma yanaştıLong story short, it began in Ankara / A mixed chick came up to me
* lover (unisex)
    Synonym: sevgili

#### Related terms

* manuel

### Further reading

* “manita”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu