manala

• Hyphenation: ma‧na‧la

manala (genitive manala, partitive manalat)

1. underworld; the place where people go after dying according to the Finnic mythology.
2. (figuratively) death

   Ta on manalasse läinud.

   He's dead. (lit. "He's gone to the underworld")

 

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From mana +‎ -la.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑnɑlɑ/, [ˈmɑ̝nɑ̝lɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑnɑlɑ
• Syllabification^(key): ma‧na‧la

manala

1. (mythology) underworld, netherworld (place to which one's spirit descends upon death, conceived as below the surface of the earth)

• mana
• tuonela

• “manala”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• laaman, lamaan, lamana

manalá

1. to weave

manala

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of manar combined with la