Etymology

Borrowed from ItalianCategory:English terms borrowed from Italian#MANCIACategory:English terms derived from Italian#MANCIA mancia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmænt͡ʃə/Category:English 2-syllable words#MANCIACategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#MANCIA

Noun

manciaCategory:English lemmas#MANCIACategory:English nouns#MANCIACategory:English nouns with unknown or uncertain plurals#MANCIACategory:English entries with incorrect language header#MANCIACategory:Pages with entries#MANCIACategory:Pages with 4 entries#MANCIA

1. tip, gratuity
   • 1963, Thomas Pynchon, V.:

     Its landscape is one of inanimate monuments and buildings; near-inanimate barmen, taxi-drivers, bellhops, guides: there to do any bidding, to varying degrees of efficiency, on receipt of the recommended baksheesh, pourboire, mancia, tip.

     Category:English terms with quotations#MANCIA

   • 1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers:

     We got up and Don Carlo looked critically at the money I had left on the table. ‘That is too much. A mancia of two lire. The waiter will be dissatisfied with those who leave a smaller but more rational mancia.’ ‘You disapprove of generosity? Perhaps they will call me Don Quixote della mancia.’ Neither of them thought that funny.

     Category:English terms with quotations#MANCIA

Anagrams

• -maniac, caiman, maniac

Etymology

Probably from Old FrenchCategory:Italian terms derived from Old French#MANCIA manche (“sleeve”).^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈman.t͡ʃa/Category:Italian 2-syllable words#MANCIACategory:Italian terms with IPA pronunciation#MANCIA

• Audio:

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  Category:Italian terms with audio pronunciation#MANCIA
• Rhymes: -antʃaCategory:Rhymes:Italian/antʃa#MANCIACategory:Rhymes:Italian/antʃa/2 syllables#MANCIA
• Hyphenation: màn‧cia

Noun

mancia f (plural mance)Category:Italian lemmas#MANCIACategory:Italian nouns#MANCIACategory:Italian countable nouns#MANCIACategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#MANCIACategory:Italian feminine nouns#MANCIACategory:Pages with entries#MANCIACategory:Pages with 4 entries#MANCIA

1. tip (in a restaurant, etc.)
   • 2003, Antonio Tabucchi, chapter XVIII, in Sostiene Pereira : una testimonianza [Pereira Declares], Rome: La biblioteca di Repubblica, published 1994, →ISBN, page 121:

     Salutò Manuel e gli lasciò una buona mancia.

     He saluted Manuel and left him a good tip.

     Category:Italian terms with quotations#MANCIA

References

Anagrams

• Camani, Manica, macina, mancai, manica

Etymology

From older Ternate manusia, from MalayCategory:Ternate terms derived from Malay#MANCIA manusia, from SanskritCategory:Ternate terms derived from Sanskrit#MANCIA मनुष्य (manuṣya).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [man.ˈt͡ʃi.a]Category:Ternate terms with IPA pronunciation#MANCIA

Noun

manciaCategory:Ternate lemmas#MANCIACategory:Ternate nouns#MANCIACategory:Ternate entries with incorrect language header#MANCIACategory:Pages with entries#MANCIACategory:Pages with 4 entries#MANCIA

1. a person
2. people

Etymology

From TernateCategory:West Makian terms derived from Ternate#MANCIA mancia, from older Ternate manusia, from MalayCategory:West Makian terms derived from Malay#MANCIA manusia, from SanskritCategory:West Makian terms derived from Sanskrit#MANCIA मनुष्य (manuṣya).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /man̪.ˈt͡ʃi.a/Category:West Makian terms with IPA pronunciation#MANCIA

Noun

manciaCategory:West Makian lemmas#MANCIACategory:West Makian nouns#MANCIACategory:West Makian entries with incorrect language header#MANCIACategory:Pages with entries#MANCIACategory:Pages with 4 entries#MANCIA

1. person
2. people

References

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982), The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics