mañana

Alternative forms

• manana

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mañana.

Adverb

mañana (not comparable)

1. Tomorrow.
2. 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'.

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

   • 2015 July 7, Ian Traynor and Larry Elliott, “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."

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *māneāna, from Latin māne.

Adverb

mañana

1. tomorrow

Noun

mañana f (plural mañanes)

1. morning

Etymology

From Old Spanish cras mañana or mannana, literally "tomorrow morning", from Vulgar Latin *māneāna, from Latin māne, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂-. Compare Portuguese manhã

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maˈɲana/

Adverb

mañana

1. tomorrow

   pasado mañana

   the day after tomorrow

   mañana por la mañana

   tomorrow morning

2. soon, shortly

Noun

mañana m, f (plural mañanas)

1. (feminine) the morning

   A las ocho de la mañana.

   At eight in the morning.

   Él se levanta por las mañanas.

   He gets up in the mornings.

2. (masculine) the near future; tomorrow

   En un día del mañana.

   Some day in the near future.