manea
Spanish, noun
manea is spelled M-A-N-E-A (5 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written Spanish, the 158,678th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Manea is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “hobble” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of manear. With an accent, maneá is a different word: “second-person singular voseo imperative of manear”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Maniota”.
What does manea mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininehobble
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
second-person singular voseo imperative of manear
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Maniota. 2. Acción y efecto de manear. 3. Traba que se pone en laspatas traseras a las vacas cuando se las quiere ordeñar. 4. Lonja de cuero curtido o sobado o de tejidos de tientos de diversas labores, con puntos en uno de sus extremos y una hebilla en el otro y sirve para manear a las caballerías. Está dividida en dos partes o lonjas, unidas por una argolla.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of manea
- maneas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to manea
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is manea in Spanish?
manea appears about once in every 19 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).