mannaとは意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English, from 古期英語, from Late Latin manna, from Ancient Greek μάννα (mánna), from Hebrew מן‎ (mān, “'manna”).

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈmænə/
• 韻: -ænə
• 異形同音異義語: manner, manor (non-rhotic dialects only)

名詞

manna (uncountable)

1. (biblical) Food miraculously produced for the Israelites in the desert in the book of Exodus.
   • Exodus 16:14-15, KJV:

     And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground. And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.

   • 1669, Nievhoff, John, John Ogilby, transl., An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China‎^[1], London: John Macock, OCLC 561227535, page 242:

     In the juriſdiction of Huquang there are ſeveral places where they gather up great store of Manna, which the Natives take for a Frozen Dew.

2. (by extension) Any boon which comes into one's hands by good luck.
   • 1596-99, Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act V, scene i:

     Fair ladies, you drop manna in the way / Of starved people.

   • 2010, Giancarlo Gandolfo, Economic Dynamics (4th ed.), Springer 2010, p. 197f.

     The introduction of technical progress in this model can be made in a very simple manner if we assume that it is of the ‘disembodied’ type, that is, something like manna that falls from heaven on all capital goods, old and new. [emphasis in original]

3. The sugary sap of the manna gum tree which oozes out from holes drilled by insects and falls to the ground around the tree.[2]
   • 1966, Bill Beatty, Tales of Old Australia, National Distributors, →ISBN, page 14, discussing old Australian foods

     The icing on the cake was made from manna, which was gathered under the manna gums. Manna mixed with milk made a splendid icing.

派生語

• Australian manna (from Eucalyptus viminalis, E. gunnii, E. pulverulenta)
• manna ash (Fraxinus ornus)
• manna grass, mannagrass (Glyceria spp.)
• manna gum (Eucalyptus viminalis, E. gunnii, E. pulverulenta)
• manna mealybug (Trabutina crassispinosa または Trabutina mannipara)
• manna scale (Trabutina crassispinosa または Trabutina mannipara)
• mannitol
• mannose
• Persian manna (Astragalus brachycalyx)
• tamarisk manna scale (Trabutina mannipara)

Further reading

• manna on Wikipedia.

アナグラム

• Amann, Annam