Afrikaans wyse | ||
Albanian menyre | ||
Amharic አሠራር | ||
Arabic بطريقة | ||
Armenian եղանակով | ||
Assamese আচৰণ | ||
Aymara ukhama | ||
Azerbaijani qaydada | ||
Bambara cogo | ||
Basque era | ||
Belarusian манера | ||
Bengali পদ্ধতি | ||
Bhojpuri तौर-तरीका | ||
Bosnian način | ||
Bulgarian начин | ||
Catalan manera | ||
Cebuano pamatasan | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 方式 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 方式 | ||
Corsican manera | ||
Croatian način | ||
Czech způsob | ||
Danish måde | ||
Dhivehi އަޚްލާޤު | ||
Dogri कायदा | ||
Dutch wijze | ||
English manner | ||
Esperanto maniero | ||
Estonian viisil | ||
Ewe nɔnɔme | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) paraan | ||
Finnish tavalla | ||
French manière | ||
Frisian wize | ||
Galician xeito | ||
Georgian მანერა | ||
German weise | ||
Greek τρόπος | ||
Guarani teko | ||
Gujarati રીત | ||
Haitian Creole fason | ||
Hausa hanya | ||
Hawaiian ʻano | ||
Hebrew דֶרֶך | ||
Hindi तौर तरीका | ||
Hmong yam | ||
Hungarian módon | ||
Icelandic háttur | ||
Igbo omume | ||
Ilocano wagas | ||
Indonesian cara | ||
Irish modh | ||
Italian maniera | ||
Japanese マナー | ||
Javanese cara | ||
Kannada ವಿಧಾನ | ||
Kazakh мәнер | ||
Khmer លក្ខណៈ | ||
Kinyarwanda buryo | ||
Konkani शिश्त | ||
Korean 방법 | ||
Krio we | ||
Kurdish awa | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) دۆخ | ||
Kyrgyz тартип | ||
Lao ລັກສະນະ | ||
Latin modo | ||
Latvian veidā | ||
Lingala lolenge | ||
Lithuanian būdas | ||
Luganda empisa | ||
Luxembourgish manéier | ||
Macedonian начин | ||
Maithili तरीका | ||
Malagasy fomba | ||
Malay cara | ||
Malayalam വിധത്തിൽ | ||
Maltese manjiera | ||
Maori tikanga | ||
Marathi रीतीने | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯃꯑꯣꯡ | ||
Mizo nunphung | ||
Mongolian хэв маяг | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ထုံးစံ | ||
Nepali तरिका | ||
Norwegian måte | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kachitidwe | ||
Odia (Oriya) ପଦ୍ଧତି | ||
Oromo akkaataa | ||
Pashto ډول | ||
Persian شیوه | ||
Polish sposób | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) maneira | ||
Punjabi .ੰਗ ਨਾਲ | ||
Quechua conducta | ||
Romanian manieră | ||
Russian манера | ||
Samoan amio | ||
Sanskrit शिष्टाचार | ||
Scots Gaelic dòigh | ||
Sepedi mokgwa | ||
Serbian манир | ||
Sesotho mokgoa | ||
Shona maitiro | ||
Sindhi طريقو | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) ආකාරය | ||
Slovak spôsobom | ||
Slovenian način | ||
Somali hab | ||
Spanish conducta | ||
Sundanese tingkah laku | ||
Swahili namna | ||
Swedish sätt | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) paraan | ||
Tajik тарзи | ||
Tamil முறை | ||
Tatar тәртибе | ||
Telugu పద్ధతిలో | ||
Thai ลักษณะ | ||
Tigrinya ጉዳይ | ||
Tsonga ndlela | ||
Turkish tavır | ||
Turkmen tertibi | ||
Twi (Akan) yɔbea | ||
Ukrainian чином | ||
Urdu انداز | ||
Uyghur ئۇسۇلى | ||
Uzbek uslubi | ||
Vietnamese cách thức | ||
Welsh dull | ||
Xhosa ngendlela | ||
Yiddish שטייגער | ||
Yoruba iwa | ||
Zulu ngendlela |
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "wyse" originates from the Dutch word "wijze", which means "method" or "way". |
| Albanian | The Albanian word "menyre" also has the alternate meaning of "way" or "method". |
| Amharic | The word "አሠራር" also means "act of making use of something" in Amharic. |
| Arabic | The word بطريقة (biṭarīqah) can also mean "means" or "method" in Arabic. |
| Azerbaijani | In Azerbaijani, "qaydada" is a cognate of the Persian word "qā'eda", which also signifies "a rule", "a law" or "a principle." |
| Basque | Basque “era” means both “manner” and “time period,” and a similar double meaning can also be found in English as well as many other languages. |
| Belarusian | The word "манера" also means "a way" in Belarusian, and it has a similar meaning in Russian, Polish, and Ukrainian languages. |
| Bengali | The word "পদ্ধতি" is derived from the Sanskrit word "pad-vidhi", meaning "way of putting feet" or "procedure". |
| Bosnian | The word "način" in Bosnian also refers to a type of musical scale. |
| Bulgarian | The Russian verb "начать" (‘‘nachat’‘, meaning "to start, to commence") and Bulgarian "начин" (‘‘nachin’‘, meaning "manner") have the same etymology, deriving from Proto-Slavic "начяти" (‘‘nachyāt’’).} |
| Catalan | The word "manera" is of Latin origin, derived from "manus," meaning "hand," and originally referred to skilled manual labor and technique. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | "方式" is a Chinese term that refers to a method, style, or approach to something. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | "方式" in Traditional Chinese also means "method" and is a synonym of "方法". |
| Corsican | In Corsican, "manera" can also refer to a 'small road' or a 'place, location' |
| Croatian | The word "način" in Croatian, meaning "manner," is related to the German word "nach" ("after, according to"), referring to the way in which something is done or achieved. |
| Czech | "Způsob" is related to "způsobiti," which means "to make, to create," as well as the Latin word "res," which means "thing, affair, circumstance." |
| Danish | In Norwegian, "måde" also means "measure". |
| Dutch | In medieval Dutch "wijze" meant both "manner" and "way". |
| Esperanto | "Maniero" is the esperantization of the French word "manière" |
| Estonian | "Viisil" is derived from "viis" ("way, method"), which also exists as the first part of "viisakas" ("polite, courteous"). |
| Finnish | The Proto-Finnic word *tavalja referred to a custom or habit, possibly related to the word *tapa or *tappa meaning "to hit" or "strike." |
| French | The word "manière" in French is derived from the Latin word "manus", meaning "hand", and can also refer to a style or way of doing something. |
| Frisian | The Frisian word "wize" is cognate with the English word "wise" and originally meant "knowledge" or "wisdom". |
| Galician | The Galician word "xeito" can also refer to style, or to a specific way of doing something. |
| Georgian | მანერა can also mean "the way something is done" or "a particular way of behaving". |
| German | The German word "Weise" can also mean "melody" or "tune" |
| Greek | The word "τρόπος" derives from the verb "τρέπω", meaning "to turn, to direct". |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word "રીત" (manner) derives from Sanskrit "रीति" and can also refer to "custom" or "practice". |
| Haitian Creole | In Haitian Creole, "fason" (manner) is also a French word, and can refer to the way something is made or done. |
| Hausa | The word "hanya" can also mean "side" or "direction." |
| Hawaiian | 'Ano' originally meant 'form' or 'shape.' |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word "דֶרֶך" initially meant "road" and is still used in this sense today. |
| Hindi | The word "तौर तरीका" also refers to a pattern or style, often in the context of behavior, speech, or writing. |
| Hmong | Hmong yam can mean style, kind, or even habit. |
| Hungarian | The word "módon" is also used in Hungarian to designate "fashion" or "style", and is related to the word "mód" ("way"), which in turn is cognate with the Finnish word "muoto" and the Estonian word "moodus". |
| Icelandic | Háttur is derived from the Proto-Germanic word *haitus, meaning 'demeanor, conduct, appearance', and shares a root with the Old English word 'hæt' and the Modern English word 'hate'. |
| Igbo | In Igbani dialect of Igbo, the word 'omume' also means 'type, class, or species.' |
| Indonesian | In the phrase "cara makan," the word "cara" can also mean "tool used for eating." |
| Irish | The Irish word "modh" can also refer to a melody or tune. |
| Italian | The word "maniera" is also used in Italian to refer to a specific style of painting prevalent during the late 16th and early 17th centuries, characterized by elongated figures, stylized poses, and often artificial lighting. |
| Japanese | Japanese "マナー" is an example of gairaigo (loanword) with two meanings that diverged after its adoption from English. |
| Javanese | "Cara" in Javanese can also mean "pattern of weaving on cloth woven on a loom." |
| Kannada | The word "ವಿಧಾನ" also refers to the legislature or parliament in Karnataka, India. |
| Kazakh | In Kazakh, "мәнер" (manner) can also refer to "style" or "behavior." |
| Khmer | "លក្ខណៈ" in Khmer can also mean a characteristic, feature, or attribute, or it can refer to the marks or lines on the palm of a person's hand that are used in palmistry. |
| Korean | "방법" (manner) also means "prescription" (recipe) in Korean. This is because prescriptions were often written in a specific manner. |
| Kurdish | The word 'awa' in Kurdish also means 'law' and derives from the Arabic word 'aqd', meaning 'contract' or 'covenant'. |
| Kyrgyz | In Kyrgyz, |
| Lao | ລັກສະນະ (lak sana) has a secondary meaning of "characteristic" which is used in the context of personality or behaviour. |
| Latin | The Latin word "modo" also means "just now, recently, lately", which derives from the Proto-Indo-European root *me- "measure, divide". |
| Latvian | The word "veidā" can also mean "form" or "way", and is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *weyd- ("to see"). |
| Lithuanian | Lithuanian „būdas” also means a place where beavers live and an old Lithuanian word for "animal" or "beast" was "būstas". |
| Luxembourgish | Manéier is derived from the French word « manière », but can also refer to the manner of conduct or behavior. |
| Macedonian | The word "начин" comes from the Proto-Slavic word *načinъ, meaning "condition, state, way, manner" and is related to the modern Russian word "начинать" (nachinat: to begin). |
| Malagasy | The word "fomba" can also refer to an ancestral custom, rite, or tradition. |
| Malay | The word "cara" can also refer to a type of dance or a way of doing something. |
| Malayalam | വിധത്തിൽ (vidhathil) could also mean 'law', 'method', or 'procedure' depending on the context. |
| Maltese | The word "manjiera" is often confused with "maniera" in Italian meaning "fashion," with the Maltese word for that being "moda." |
| Maori | The word "tikanga" in Maori encompasses both "manner" and "custom", with specific protocols and guidelines for appropriate behavior and conduct in various situations. |
| Marathi | The word "रीतीने" is also used to describe the form or style of something. |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian phrase "хэв маяг" can also refer to a "style" or a "method" of doing something. |
| Nepali | The word 'तरिका' is derived from the Sanskrit word 'तरीका' which means 'way' or 'method'. |
| Norwegian | "Måte" is also the name of a Norwegian municipality in Rogaland county. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "kachitidwe" can also mean "behaviour" or "way of life" in Nyanja. |
| Pashto | ډول derives from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreu- “to run” and is cognate with English “tread” |
| Persian | The word "شیوه" can also refer to a style of calligraphy, music, or painting. |
| Polish | The word "sposób" can also refer to a "method" or "way" of doing something. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The word "maneira" can also refer to a "way" or "method" of doing something. |
| Punjabi | .ੰਗ ਨਾਲ means method, style, way, means, and pattern. |
| Romanian | "Manieră" is also used in Romanian to describe a style of visual art. |
| Russian | Манера восходит значение весов, но и внутренний способ сообщения. |
| Samoan | Amio can also be used figuratively to refer to an individual's conduct, habits, or lifestyle. |
| Scots Gaelic | Dòigh likely derives from Proto-Celtic ‘togi’ (‘path’). |
| Serbian | The word "манир" can also refer to a specific way of behaving or speaking that is considered affected or artificial. |
| Sesotho | The word "mokgoa" in Sesotho shares the same root as the word "mokgwa", both meaning "manner", "method", or "habit" |
| Shona | The word "maitiro" in Shona can also refer to behavior or character. |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi word "طريقو" not only means "manner", but also "style" or "method". |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word "ආකාරය" can also mean "type", "form", or "style" in Sinhala. |
| Slovak | The Slovak word 'spôsobom' originally meant 'way' in Old Church Slavonic and 'form, appearance' in Proto-Slavic and retains this secondary meaning of 'form' or 'way' in the expression 'by no means'. |
| Slovenian | The word "način" derives from the Proto-Slavic noun *nachьnъ, meaning "beginning". |
| Somali | "Hab" also has the meaning "fashion dress" or "uniform". |
| Spanish | In Latin, «conducta» meant "bringing together, assembling" but it was used with the alternate meaning of "leadership, retinue" (especially applied to an escort of soldiers accompanying a public figure), hence "way of leading" and "manner of behavior, way of life." |
| Sundanese | The word 'tingkah laku' in Sundanese can also mean 'behavior' or 'conduct'. |
| Swahili | The Swahili word "namna" (manner), likely derived from the Arabic "namm," can also refer to a type of fabric or the style of wearing it. |
| Swedish | The Swedish word "sätt" has many possible meanings, including "way," "method," "fashion," or "state." |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word "paraan" is derived from the Sanskrit word "para", meaning "other" or "beyond". |
| Tajik | Although the word "тарзи" is usually translated as "manner", it may also mean "fashion", particularly in relation to clothing. |
| Tamil | The Tamil word "முறை" also means "order", "system", or "customary practice." |
| Telugu | పద్ధతిలో (padhdhathilO) means 'in a manner' and is derived from the Sanskrit word 'padaddhati', which means 'a row of feet'. |
| Thai | "ลักษณะ" (manner) originates from Sanskrit "lakṣaṇa" (sign, characteristic) and is cognate with Lao "laksana" (manner, characteristic), Khmer "loksana" (shape, form), and Malay "lakasana" (manner, way). |
| Turkish | The word "tavır" in Turkish derives from the Persian word "tavir" meaning "fold" or "crease". |
| Ukrainian | The word "чином" is a Slavic word with various meanings depending on context, including "row," "order," and "rank." |
| Urdu | انداز is also used to refer to a particular style or approach, such as in the phrase 'a certain way' |
| Uzbek | In Uzbek, "uslubi" can also mean "style" in writing or speech. |
| Vietnamese | The word "cách thức" comes from the Chinese "方式", meaning "method". It can also mean "style" or "way". |
| Welsh | The word 'dull' in Welsh comes from the Old English word 'dwylig', meaning 'stupid' or 'foolish', and has no relation to the English word 'dull', meaning 'lacking interest'. |
| Xhosa | The Xhosa word "ngendlela" can also mean "behavior" or "custom." |
| Yiddish | The word 'שטייגער' can also refer to a person's character, behavior, or way of life. |
| Yoruba | The Yoruba word "iwa" can also refer to "character" or "disposition". |
| Zulu | The word "ngendlela" in Nguni languages is also used to refer to a ritual or ceremony. |
| English | The word "manner" derives from the Old French word "maniere," which in turn comes from the Latin word "manus," meaning "hand". This is because "manner" originally referred to the way in which something was done, especially with the hands. |