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manta

/ˈmæn.tə/

manta noun: a kind of fabric or blanket used in Latin America and southwestern United States.

Noun (1)

manta (plural mantas)

  1. A kind of fabric or blanket used in Latin America and southwestern United States.
  2. A manta ray (Mobula spp.).

Proper noun capitalized: Manta

Manta

  1. A Grassfields language spoken in Cameroon.
  2. A city and canton in Manabí province, Ecuador.

Noun (2) capitalized: MANTA

MANTA (plural MANTAs)

  1. (US, abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of multiaxis no-tail aircraft.

Forms of manta

pluralmantas
pluralMANTAs

Plural of manta: mantas

Origin of manta

Borrowed from Spanish manta (“blanket”).

Words formed from manta

Phrases with manta

Questions about manta

What does manta mean?
Manta means a kind of fabric or blanket used in Latin America and southwestern United States.
What part of speech is manta?
Manta can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce manta?
Manta is pronounced /ˈmæn.tə/.
What is the plural of manta?
The plural of manta is mantas.

Words near manta in the dictionary

  1. manswearing
  2. manswears
  3. mansweat
  4. manswore
  5. mansworn
  6. manta
  7. manta ray
  8. manta rays
  9. Manta-angan
  10. Mantacdang
  11. Mantalisay

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Adapted from Wiktionary: manta (page history and authors); Manta (page history and authors); MANTA (page history and authors). 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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