mañanaの英語

語源

Borrowed from Spanish mañana.

発音

• IPA: /məˈnjɑːnə/, /mɑːˈnjɑːnə/, /məˈnjænə/
• 韻: -ɑːnə, -ænə

副詞

mañana (not comparable)

1. (US, in Spanish-speaking contexts) Tomorrow.
2. (humorous) Some unspecified time in the future.

   The plumber said he would come tomorrow. But I think he will probably be here mañana.

   • 1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:

     The answer was always a harassed smile and a promise that there should be machine-gun instruction mañana. Needless to say mañana never came.

   • 1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 13, in On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC, part 1:

     He swore he was coming to New York to join me. I pictured him in New York, putting off everything till manana.

   • 1978, “Dirty Weekend”, in Blondes Have More Fun, performed by Rod Stewart:

     Oh, my sweet Diana, I can't wait for the manana / There's a hotel down in Mexico just made for two

   • 2003, Richard D[onald] Lewis, “The Categorization of Cultures”, in The Cultural Imperative: Global Trends in the 21 Century, Yarmouth, Me.: Intercultural Press, →ISBN, chapter 4 (Cross-Century Worldviews), page 71:

     When doing business, they [linear-actives] are keen on punctual performance, quality, and reliable delivery dates. Mañana behavior and overloquacity are frowned upon.

   • 2015 July 7, Ian Traynor, Larry Elliott, quoting Dalia Grybauskaitė, “Greece given days to agree bailout deal or face banking collapse and euro exit”, in The Guardian‎:

     “[With] the Greek government it is every time ‘mañana’,” said Lithuania’s president, Dalia Grybauskaitė, one of the Greek government’s harshest critics. “It can always be ‘mañana’ every day.”

派生語

• mañana habit