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noun, feminine

maña

/ˈmaɲa/

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.