mane
/meɪn/
mane noun: longer hair growth on back of neck of an animal, especially a horse or lion. Also the eye dialect spelling of man.
Noun
mane (plural manes)
- Longer hair growth on back of neck of an animal, especially a horse or lion.
- Before they went to see Glinda, however, they were taken to a room of the Castle, where Dorothy washed her face and combed her hair, and the Lion shook the dust out of his mane, and the Scarecrow patted himself into his best shape, and the Woodman polished his tin and oiled his joints.1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, chapter 23, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC
- Long or thick hair of a person's head.
- Part of a naval sword between the tang button and the quillon.
Proper noun capitalized: Mane
Mane (plural Manes)
- A surname.
Also used as
mane is also the eye dialect spelling of man.
mane meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
mane in Hindi
- longer hair growth on back of neck of a horse
- याल yāl, केसर kesar
mane in Tamil
- மேனே
mane in Urdu
- longer hair growth on back of neck of a horse
- یال yāl
mane in Bengali
- longer hair growth on back of neck of a horse
- কেশর keśor
More languagesFewer languages
- mane in Telugu
- జూలు jūlu
- mane in Malayalam
- മാനെ
- mane in Kannada
- ಮಾನೆ, ಮಾಣೆ
- mane in Assamese
- কেশাৰ kexar
- mane in Nepali
- माणे
- mane in Tagalog
- kiling
- mane in Arabic
- عُرْف ʕurf, لِبْدَة libda
- mane in Malay
- surai
- mane in Indonesian
- surai
- mane in Persian
- یال yâl, فش faš, بش boš
- mane in Thai
- สร้อย sôi, แผงคอ pɛ̌ɛng kɔɔ
- mane in Vietnamese
- bờm
- mane in Myanmar
- မှင်ဆံ hmanghcam, လည်ဆံ lanyhcam
Examples of mane in a sentence
- A solid mane thinner is indispensable in finishing the looks of your horse.
- Big Ange lolloped to the lectern, tossed her glistening mane and fixed them with a lively eye.
- “Still, it doesn’t seem very unicorny to keep a wartle in your mane.”
Forms of mane
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | manes |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Manes |
Origin of mane
From Middle English mane, mayne, from Old English manu (“mane”), from Proto-West Germanic *manu, from Proto-Germanic *manō (“mane”), from Proto-Indo-European *mony-, *mon- (“neck”). Cognate with Dutch maan, manen (“mane”), German Mähne (“mane”), Danish man (“horse's mane”), Swedish man (“horse's mane”), Icelandic mön (“mane”).
Dialectal rendering of man, as used in African-American Vernacular English.
Words formed from mane
Phrases with mane
Words that rhyme with mane
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- drain
- pane
- gain
- main
- sustain
- vein
- entertain
- skein
- Wayne
- abstain
- bane
- campaign
- champagne
- crane
- entrain
- fain
- insane
- maine
- pain
- plane
- stain
- wane
- Aquitaine
- ascertain
- chicane
- contain
- detain
- explain
- maintain
- mundane
- obtain
- refrain
- remain
- vane
- amain
- arcane
- Blaine
- complain
- deign
- detrain
- distrain
- kane
- ordain
- pertain
- profane
- public domain
- reign
- swain
Questions about mane
- What does mane mean?
- Mane means longer hair growth on back of neck of an animal, especially a horse or lion.
- What is mane in Hindi?
- Mane in Hindi is याल (yāl), केसर (kesar). See Mane meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is mane?
- Mane can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce mane?
- Mane is pronounced /meɪn/.
- What is the plural of mane?
- The plural of mane is manes.
Words near mane in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: mane (page history and authors); Mane (page history and authors); mane (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mane (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mane (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mane (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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