Manana vs Manna - What's the difference?
manana | manna |
tomorrow
Sometime in the future. Usually to say in a satirical sense 'sometime in the unspecified future, despite the fact that we were told tomorrow without fail'.
Food miraculously produced for the Israelites in the desert in the book of Exodus.
By extension, any good thing which comes into one's hands by luck or good fortune.
The sugary sap of the manna gum tree which oozes out from holes drilled by insects and falls to the ground around the tree.[http://www.museum.vic.gov.au/forest/plants/gum.html]
* 1966 , Bill Beatty, Tales of Old Australia , National Distributors, ISBN 1-86436-013-5, page 14, discussing old Australian foods
As nouns the difference between manana and manna
is that manana is an alternative spelling of mañana|lang=en while manna is food miraculously produced for the Israelites in the desert in the book of Exodus.As an adverb mañana
is tomorrow.manana
English
Alternative forms
* mananaAdverb
(-)- The plumber said he would come tomorrow. But I think he will probably be here mañana .
manna
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Alternative forms
* (possibly archaic) manaNoun
(-)- The icing on the cake was made from manna, which was gathered under the manna gums. Manna mixed with milk made a splendid icing.