manti

The immediate source is Turkish mantı or Ottoman Turkish مانطی. Before that the origin is obscure. The word was widespread in central Asia by the 13th century. Chinese 饅頭／馒头 (MC muɑn dəu, “steamed bun”) may be another borrowing, making manti a doublet of mandu, manju, and mantou.

manti (plural manti or manties)

1. A type of dumpling served in Turkish, Armenian and Central Asian cuisine
   • 1998 November 13, Ted Shen, “Restaurant Tours: Metin Kurtulus serves Turkey”, in Chicago Reader‎:

     And they kept one of the national dishes, manti (pasta stuffed with ground beef served in garlic-yogurt sauce, $11.50), as well as lahmacun, sort of a Turkish pizza ($3), and arnavut cigeri (fried calf's liver and potatoes, $5.75), a hot appetizer.

   • 2007 December 5, Melissa Clark, “When It Looks at You, It’s Done”, in New York Times‎:

     Crowding the table were miniature, hand-formed lamb dumplings called manti; flaky pastries, called boreks, filled with wild greens; and an elaborate paste of chicken, wheat and pistachios called keskek.

• Manti (food) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Maint., Matin, matin, tamin

From Portuguese manter. Cognate with Kabuverdianu manti "maintain".

manti

1. to hold
2. to keep
3. to maintain

• IPA^(key): /ˈmanti/
• Rhymes: -ti, -i
• Hyphenation: man‧ti

From Minangkabau [Term?], from Pali mantī (“minister”), from Sanskrit मन्त्री (mantrī).[1] Doublet of mandarin, mantri, and menteri.

manti (plural manti-manti, first-person possessive mantiku, second-person possessive mantimu, third-person possessive mantinya)

1. alternative spelling of menteri (“minister”)

From Turkish mantı or Ottoman Turkish مانطی with possible cognate of Chinese 饅頭／馒头 (mántou).

manti (plural manti-manti, first-person possessive mantiku, second-person possessive mantimu, third-person possessive mantinya)

1. (cooking) manti: A type of dumpling served in Turkish, Armenian and Central Asian cuisine.

• “manti” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• IPA^(key): /ˈman.ti/
• Rhymes: -anti
• Hyphenation: màn‧ti

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

manti m

1. plural of manto

From Ottoman Turkish مانطی (mantı) or Turkish mantı.

manti m (invariable)

1. manti (meat-filled pockets of pasta in Turkey and Central Asia)

• minta

manti

1. vocative singular of mantin (“counsellor”)

From emanti.

-mânti

1. wet

manti (definite accusative mantiyi, plural mantiler)

1. (Lubunyaca) Young top (dominant partner in a BDSM relationship) (generally between ages 15 and 20).

• laço
• balamoz, malamoz