Manila - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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- Maynila (nonstandard)
- May-nilad (historical, based on an antiquarian and inaccurate etymology)
- Manilla (archaic, historical, misspelling)
From Spanish Manila, from Tagalog Maynila, from may (“there is”) + nila (“indigo”), Tagalog nila from Sanskrit नील (nīla).
Manila
- The capital city of the Philippines; the regional capital of Metro Manila, in the island of Luzon.
- Meronyms: Binondo, Ermita, Intramuros, Malate, Paco, Pandacan, Port Area, Quiapo, Sampaloc, San Andres, San Miguel, San Nicolas, Santa Ana, Santa Cruz, Santa Mesa, Tondo — districts of Manila
2007, Ronald Findlay, Kevin O'Rourke, Power and Plenty[1], Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 173:
Chinese traders, mostly from the southern ports of Amoy (Hsia-men) and Canton, took raw silk, fabrics, and apparel to Manila, where these cargoes were sold for silver and carried back for sale in the New World.
- (loosely) Metro Manila, the National Capital Region (NCR).
- (figuratively) The national government or administrative authority of the Philippines.
- A small town, the county seat of Daggett County, Utah, United States.
- A census-designated place in Humboldt County, California, United States.
- A city in Mississippi County, Arkansas, United States
capital of the Philippines
- Afrikaans: Manila
- Albanian: Manila f
- Amharic: ማኒላ (manila)
- Arabic: مَانِيلَا f (manīlā)
- Armenian: Մանիլա (Manila)
- Asturian: Manila (ast)
- Azerbaijani: Manila
- Basque: Manila
- Belarusian: Мані́ла f (Maníla), Мані́ля f (Manílja)
- Bengali: ম্যানিলা (mênila)
- Bikol Central: Manila (bcl)
- Bulgarian: Мани́ла f (Maníla)
- Burmese: မနီလာမြို့ (ma.nilamrui.)
- Catalan: Manila
- Cebuano: Manila
- Chavacano: Manila
- Chinese:
- Czech: Manila (cs) f
- Danish: Manila (da) n
- Dutch: Manilla (nl) n
- Esperanto: Manilo (eo)
- Estonian: Manila (et)
- Farefare: Manila
- Finnish: Manila (fi)
- French: Manille (fr) f
- Galician: Manila (gl)
- Georgian: მანილა (ka) (manila)
- German: Manila (de) n
- Greek: Μανίλα (el) f (Maníla)
- Hebrew: מָנִילָה (he) f (manila)
- Hindi: मनीला m (manīlā)
- Hungarian: Manila (hu)
- Icelandic: Maníla
- Ilocano: Manila
- Indonesian: Manila
- Irish: Mainile f
- Italian: Manila (it) f
- Japanese: マニラ (ja) (Manira)
- Kannada: ಮನಿಲ (manila)
- Kapampangan: Menila
- Kazakh: Манила (Manila)
- Khmer: ម៉ានីល (km) (maaniil)
- Korean: 마닐라 (ko) (Manilla)
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: Манила (Manila)
- Lao: ມະນີລາ (ma nī lā), ມານິລາ (mā ni lā)
- Latvian: Manila f
- Lithuanian: Manila (lt) f
- Macedonian: Манила f (Manila)
- Malay: Manila
- Malayalam: മനില (manila)
- Maltese: Manila f
- Maori: Manira
- Mongolian:
- Navajo: Manííla
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: Manila
- Pashto: مانيلا f (mānilã)
- Persian: مانیل (fa) (mânil)
- Polish: Manila (pl) f
- Portuguese: Manila (pt) f
- Romanian: Manila (ro)
- Russian: Мани́ла (ru) f (Maníla)
- Sambal: Ibali f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Sinhalese: මැනිලා (mænilā)
- Slovak: Manila (sk) f
- Slovene: Manila f
- Spanish: Manila (es) f
- Swedish: Manila (sv) n
- Tagalog: Maynila
- Tajik: Манила (tg) (Manila)
- Tamil: மணிலா (maṇilā)
- Tatar: Манила (Manila)
- Telugu: మనీలా (manīlā)
- Thai: มะนิลา (th) (má-ní-laa)
- Tibetan: མ་ནི་ལ (ma ni la)
- Turkish: Manila (tr)
- Turkmen: Manila
- Ukrainian: Мані́ла f (Maníla), Мані́ля f (Manílja)
- Urdu: منیلا m (manīlā)
- Uyghur: مانىلا (manila)
- Uzbek: Manila
- Vietnamese: Manila (vi), Ma Ní, Mã Ni La
- Yiddish: מאַנילאַ n (manila)
Manila (plural Manilas)
- Venerupis philippinarum; a Pacific clam.
- Alternative form of manila (“kind of cheroot”)
Manila
- Manila (the capital city of the Philippines; the regional capital of Metro Manila, in the island of Luzon)
Borrowed from Spanish Manila, from Tagalog Maynila.
Manila or Manilà (Badlit spelling ᜋᜈᜒᜎ)
- Manila (the capital city of the Philippines; the regional capital of Metro Manila, in the island of Luzon)
- (loosely) Metro Manila, National Capital Region (a region and metropolitan area in the Philippines)
- (historical) Manila (a former province of the Philippines)
- (historical) Manila (the capital city of Spanish-era Philippines; modern Intramuros)
Manila f (relational adjective manilský)
- Manila (the capital city of the Philippines; the regional capital of Metro Manila, in the island of Luzon)
- “Manila”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025
Borrowed from Spanish Manila, from Tagalog Maynila, from may (“there is”) + nila (“indigo”), Tagalog nila from Sanskrit नील (nīla).
Manila n (proper noun, genitive Manilas or (optionally with an article) Manila)
- Manila (the capital city of the Philippines; the regional capital of Metro Manila, in the island of Luzon)
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /maˈnila/ [maˈni.la]
- Rhymes: -ila
- Syllabification: Ma‧ni‧la
Manila
- Manila (the capital of the Philippines)
Borrowed from Spanish Manila, from Tagalog Maynila, from may (“there is”) + nila (“indigo”), Tagalog nila from Sanskrit नील (nīla).
Manila f
- Manila (the capital city of the Philippines; the regional capital of Metro Manila, in the island of Luzon)

Manila f (related adjective manilski)
- Manila (the capital city of the Philippines)
(nouns):
(adjective):
From Spanish Manila, from Tagalog Maynila, from may (“there is”) + nila (“indigo”), Tagalog nila from Sanskrit नील (nīla).
- Hyphenation: Ma‧ni‧la
Manila
- Manila (the capital city of the Philippines; the regional capital of Metro Manila, in the island of Luzon)
Mȁnila f (Cyrillic spelling Ма̏нила)
- Manila (the capital city of the Philippines; the regional capital of Metro Manila, in the island of Luzon)
Manila f (genitive singular Manily, declension pattern of žena)
- Manila (the capital city of the Philippines; the regional capital of Metro Manila, in the island of Luzon)
- “Manila”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025
Borrowed from Tagalog Maynila, from may (“there is”) + nila (“indigo”), Tagalog nila from Sanskrit नील (nīla).
Manila f
- Manila (the capital city of the Philippines; the regional capital of Metro Manila, in the island of Luzon)
- “Manila”, 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
Borrowed from Spanish Manila, itself from Tagalog Maynila.
- (Standard Tagalog)
- Syllabification: Ma‧ni‧la
Manila (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜈᜒᜎ) (informal)
- Alternative form of Maynila
- → Hokkien: 馬尼剌 / 马尼剌, 岷里納, 岷里刺, 岷唎喇, 民希臘 / 民希腊, 蠻哩喇 / 蛮哩喇, 呅哖膋 / 呅哖䒿 (obsolete)
- → Japanese: 馬尼剌 (Manira) (obsolete)
- → Mandarin: 馬尼剌 / 马尼剌 (Mǎnílà) (obsolete)
- “Manila”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Santos, Vito C. (1978) Vicassan's Pilipino-English Dictionary, Revised edition (overall work in Tagalog and English), With an Introduction by Teodoro A. Agoncillo, Metro Manila: National Book Store, →ISBN, page 1172
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [maː˧˧ ni˧˧ laː˧˧]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [maː˧˧ nɪj˧˧ laː˧˧]
- (Saigon) IPA(key): [maː˧˧ nɪj˧˧ laː˧˧]
- Phonetic spelling: ma ni la
Manila
- Manila (the capital of the Philippines)
- Synonym: Ma Ní