noun, feminine/ˈmaɲa/plural: mañas
skill, aptitude, knack; trick (something designed to fool); bad habit, vice, mania; bad temper, ill humor
Synonyms: destreza, habilidad, talento, truco, engañifa, treta, artimaña, artificio
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *mania (“manual skill”), from Latin manus (“hand”). The sense of "mania" may have been influenced by manía, from the (unrelated) Latin mania. Compare Portuguese manha.