manzana

English

Noun

manzana (plural manzanas)

1. A unit of area used in Argentina and many Central American countries, originally defined as 10,000 square varas.

Aragonese

Alternative forms

• mazana

Etymology

Compare Spanish manzana.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /manˈθana/
• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: man‧za‧na

Noun

manzana f (plural manzanas)

1. apple

   Synonym: poma (Benasquese)

References

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “manzana”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl

Etymology

From Spanish manzana.

Noun

manzana

1. apple.

Spanish

manzanas

Etymology

Etymology tree

Doric Greek μῆλον (mêlon)bor.?

Latin mālum

Proto-Indo-European *meh₂tis

Proto-Celtic *matis

Celticder.?

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Proto-Celtic *matis

Gaulishder.?

Latin Matius

Latin mattiānum

Latin māla mattiānaellip.

Vulgar Latin *mattiānader.

Spanish mazana

Spanish manzana

From earlier mazana, from Vulgar Latin *mattiāna, ellipsis of māla mattiāna, plural of Latin mālum mattiānum (literally “apple of Matius”), referring to a kind of apple. Gaius Matius, a friend of Julius Caesar and Cicero, was a Roman horticulturist and author of cookbooks. Cognate with Portuguese maçã, dialectal Catalan maçana.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /manˈθana/ [mãn̟ˈθa.na] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• IPA^(key): /manˈsana/ [mãnˈsa.na] (Latin America, Philippines)

• Audio (Spain (Valencia)):

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• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: man‧za‧na

Noun

manzana f (plural manzanas)

1. apple

   Synonym: (rare) poma

2. (Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Bolivia) an area corresponding to 10,000 varas, equivalent to c. 6987 m²
3. city block

   Synonym: (Latin America) cuadra

   dar la vuelta a la manzana ― to go around the block

Derived terms

• Gran Manzana
• manzana de Adán
• manzana de agua
• manzana de caramelo
• manzana de la discordia
• manzana de oro
• manzana podrida
• manzana silvestre
• manzana verde
• manzanar
• manzanilla
• manzanita
• manzano
• pastel de manzana
• peras y manzanas
• sumar peras con manzanas
• supermanzana
• tarta de manzana

Related terms

• manzanero

Descendants

• → Asi: mansanas
• → Cebuano: mansanas
• → Central Bikol: mansana, mansanas
• → Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl: manzana
• → Ilocano: mansanas
• → Karao: mansanas
• → Maranao: mansanas
• → Navajo: bilasáana
• → Quechua: mansana
• → Tagalog: mansanas
• → Waray-Waray: mansana
• → Western Apache: masáána
• → Yogad: mansanas
• → Zacatlán-Ahuacatlán-Tepetzintla Nahuatl: manzana
• → Zuni: mansana

Further reading

• “manzana”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• “manzana”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010

Zacatlán-Ahuacatlán-Tepetzintla Nahuatl

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish manzana.

Noun

manzana

1. apple

References

• Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C. (2006), Pequeño diccionario ilustrado: Náhuatl de los municipios de Zacatlán, Tepetzintla y Ahuacatlán‎^[1], segunda edición edition, Tlalpan, D.F. México: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 20