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5-letter words (4 found)

AMAIN,AMNIA,ANIMA,MANIA,

4-letter words (7 found)

AMIA,AMIN,MAIN,MANA,MANI,MINA,NAAM,

3-letter words (12 found)

AIA,AIM,AIN,AMA,AMI,ANA,ANI,MAA,MAN,MNA,NAM,NIM,

2-letter words (8 found)

AA,AI,AM,AN,IN,MA,MI,NA,

You can make 31 words from mania according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of mania

mania

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mania, from Ancient Greek μανία (manía, madness).

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈmeɪ.ni.ə/
  • Hyphenation: ma‧ni‧a
  • Rhymes: -eɪniə

Noun

mania (countable and uncountable, plural manias)

  1. Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity.
  2. Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; fanaticism.
  3. (psychiatry) The state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels.

Derived terms

Related terms

  • dipsomania
  • manic
  • maniac
  • megalomania

Translations

Further reading

  • “mania”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

  • Amina, Maina, amain, amnia, anima

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mania or Ancient Greek μανία (manía, madness).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [məˈni.ə]
  • IPA(key): (Valencia) [maˈni.a]

Noun

mania f (plural manies)

  1. mania

Related terms

  • maníac
  • manicomi

Further reading

  • “mania”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], 2007 April

Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɑniɑ/, [ˈmɑ̝niɑ̝]
  • Rhymes: -ɑniɑ
  • Syllabification(key): ma‧ni‧a
  • Hyphenation(key): ma‧nia

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin mania, from Ancient Greek μανία (manía, madness).

Noun

mania

  1. mania
Declension
Derived terms

Further reading

  • mania”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

Etymology 2

Noun

mania

  1. partitive singular of mani

Anagrams

  • Naima, aamin, maani, maina

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ma.nja/

Verb

mania

  1. third-person singular past historic of manier

Anagrams

  • anima

Garo

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

mania (transitive)

  1. to follow instructions, obey
  2. to worship

References

  • Burling, R. (2003) The Language of the Modhupur Mandi (Garo) Vol. II: The Lexicon[2], Bangladesh: University of Michigan, page 389

Italian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin mania, from Ancient Greek μανία (manía, madness).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /maˈni.a/
  • Rhymes: -ia
  • Hyphenation: ma‧nì‧a

Noun

mania f (plural manie)

  1. mania
  2. habit (if strange)
  3. quirk
  4. bug
  5. one-track mind
    Synonyms: fissazione, assillo, smania, pallino fisso, chiodo fisso
Related terms
  • maniacale
  • maniaco
  • manicomio

Etymology 2

From Latin imāginem. Doublet of immagine and imago.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈma.nja/
  • Rhymes: -anja
  • Hyphenation: mà‧nia

Noun

mania f (plural manie)

  1. (archaic) a waxen votive image, usually hung from altars
Derived terms
  • maniato

References

Further reading

  • mania in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  • mania in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

Anagrams

  • Manai, anima

Latin

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek μανία (manía).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈma.ni.a]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈmaː.ni.a]

Noun

mania f (genitive maniae); first declension

  1. craze, mania, madness
Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

  • Old Galician-Portuguese: manna
  • Romanian: mânie
  • Italian: mania
  • Albanian: mëri, mëniGheg (disputed)
  • Catalan: mania
  • Danish: mani
  • Dutch: manie
  • English: mania
  • Finnish: mania
  • French: manie
  • German: Manie
  • Irish: máine
  • Norwegian: mani
  • Polish: mania
  • Portuguese: mania
  • Spanish: manía
  • Swedish: mani

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈmaː.ni.a]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈmaː.ni.a]

Adjective

mānia

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of mānis

References

  • mania”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • "mania", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • mania”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • mania”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin mania.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmaɲ.ja/
  • Rhymes: -aɲja
  • Syllabification: man‧ia
  • Homophone: -mania

Noun

mania f

  1. mania (violent derangement)
    Synonyms: amok, obsesja, szajba, szał
  2. mania (excessive desire)
  3. (psychiatry) mania (state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels)

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

  • mania in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • mania in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mania or Ancient Greek μανία (manía, madness).

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -iɐ
  • Hyphenation: ma‧ni‧a

Noun

mania f (plural manias)

  1. mania (excessive or unreasonable desire)
  2. vice (bad habit)
    Synonym: vício

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French manier.

Verb

a mania (third-person singular present maniează, past participle maniat) 1st conjugation

  1. to handle

Conjugation

Tahitian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /maˈni.a/

Adjective

mania

  1. (of the sea or weather) calm
  2. (figuratively) serene, calm, tranquil, peaceful (state of mind)
  3. dull

References

  • Yves Lemaître, Lexique du tahitien contemporain (Current Tahitian lexicon), 1995.
  • “mania” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.

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