Meaning and Origin
What does the name Manna mean? Keep reading to find the user submitted meanings, dictionary definitions, and more.
Origin and Meaning of Manna
User Submitted Origins
Arabic
42%
Hebrew
26%
Indian (Sanskrit)
20%
African
4%
Italian
4%
English
4%
User Submitted Meanings
- A user from Canada says the name Manna means "Heavenly. Or gift of god for me".
- A user from Nigeria says the name Manna is of African origin and means "love gift".
- A user from Denmark says the name Manna means "A gift of something you really need".
- A submission from Nigeria says the name Manna means "unexpected miracle of God (to the Israelite ). When the people of Israel saw it they asked the question (what is it)" and is of African origin.
- A submission from Georgia, U.S. says the name Manna means "Heavenly" and is of Spanish origin.
International Interest
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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
noun Man"na
Senses
- [Script] The food supplied to the Israelites in their journey through the wilderness of Arabia; hence, divinely supplied food.
- [Bot] A name given to lichens of the genus Lecanora, sometimes blown into heaps in the deserts of Arabia and Africa, and gathered and used as food; called also manna lichen.
- [Bot. & Med] A sweetish exudation in the form of pale yellow friable flakes, coming from several trees and shrubs and used in medicine as a gentle laxative, as the secretion of Fraxinus Ornus, and Fraxinus rotundifolia, the manna ashes of Southern Europe.
Note: ☞ Persian manna is the secretion of the camel's thorn (see Camel's thorn, under Camel); Tamarisk manna, that of the Tamarisk mannifera, a shrub of Western Asia; Australian, manna, that of certain species of eucalyptus; Briançon manna, that of the European larch.
Etymology: L., fr. Gr. ma`nna, Heb. mān; cf. Ar. mann, properly, gift (of heaven)
Other Dictionary Sources
- (Old Testament) food that God gave the Israelites during the Exodus
- Hardened sugary exudation of various trees
Wiktionary
From Middle English, from Old English, from Late Latin manna, from Ancient Greek μάννα (mánna), from Hebrew מן (mān, “'manna”).
- (biblical) Food miraculously produced for the Israelites in the desert in the book of Exodus.
- (by extension) Any good thing which comes into one's hands by luck or good fortune.
- The sugary sap of the manna gum tree which oozes out from holes drilled by insects and falls to the ground around the tree.[1]
manna was also found in the following language(s): Faroese, Finnish, Gothic, Greenlandic, Icelandic, Italian, Latin, and Ter Sami