manna

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Food miraculously produced for the Israelites in the desert in the book of Exodus. countable,uncountable
    — 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.
  2. Any boon which comes into one's hands by good luck. broadly,countable,uncountable
    — Fair ladies, you drop manna in the way / Of starved people.
  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. countable,uncountable
    — 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.

词形变化

mannas plural archaic alternative mana alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
Australian manna manna ash manna croup manna from heaven manna grass mannagrass manna gum mannalike manna mealybug manna scale manniferous mannitate mannitol mannose Persian manna tamarisk manna scale

词源

Etymology tree
Biblical Hebrew מָן (mān)bor.
Ancient Greek μάννα (mánna)der.
Late Latin mannader.
Old English manna
Middle English
English manna
From Middle English, from Old English, from Late Latin manna, from Ancient Greek μάννα (mánna), from Hebrew מן (mān, “'manna”).
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