manti

The immediate source is Turkish mantı or Ottoman Turkish مانطی‎. Before that the origin is obscure. The word was widespread in central Asia by the 13th century. Chinese 饅頭 (MC muɑn dəu, “steamed bun”) may be another borrowing, making manti a doublet of mandu, manju, and mantou.

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1. A type of dumpling served in Turkish and Central Asian cuisine
   • 1998 November 13, Ted Shen, “Restaurant Tours: Metin Kurtulus serves Turkey”, in Chicago Reader‎:

     And they kept one of the national dishes, manti (pasta stuffed with ground beef served in garlic-yogurt sauce, $11.50), as well as lahmacun, sort of a Turkish pizza ($3), and arnavut cigeri (fried calf's liver and potatoes, $5.75), a hot appetizer.

   • 2007 December 5, Melissa Clark, “When It Looks at You, It’s Done”, in New York Times‎:

     Crowding the table were miniature, hand-formed lamb dumplings called manti; flaky pastries, called boreks, filled with wild greens; and an elaborate paste of chicken, wheat and pistachios called keskek.

• Manti (food) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Maint., Matin, matin, tamin

From Portuguese manter. Cognate with Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) "maintain".

manti

1. to hold
2. to keep
3. to maintain

• IPA^(key): /ˈmanti/
• Rhymes: -ti, -i
• Hyphenation: man‧ti

From Minangkabau [Term?], from Pali mantī (“minister”), from Sanskrit मन्त्री (mantrī).[1] Doublet of mandarin, mantri, and menteri.

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1. alternative spelling of menteri (“minister”)

From Turkish mantı or Ottoman Turkish مانطی‎ with possible cognate of Chinese 饅頭／馒头 (mántou).

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1. (cooking) Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value): A type of dumpling served in Turkish and Central Asian cuisine.

• “manti” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

• IPA^(key): /ˈman.ti/
• Rhymes: -anti
• Hyphenation: màn‧ti

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

manti m

1. plural of manto

From Ottoman Turkish مانطی‎ (mantı) or Turkish mantı.

manti m (invariable)

1. manti (meat-filled pockets of pasta in Turkey and Central Asia)

• minta

manti

1. vocative singular of mantin (“counsellor”)

From emanti.

-mânti

1. wet

manti (definite accusative mantiyi, plural mantiler)

1. (Lubunyaca) Young top (dominant partner in a BDSM relationship) (generally between ages 15 and 20).

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• laço
• balamoz, malamoz