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maññe

mañña

masc acc pl of mañña (noun); masc loc sg of mañña (noun); reflx pr 1st sg of maññati (verb); reflx imp 1st sg of maññati (verb); …

1. mañña (masc): thought; conception; imagination
2. maññati (pr): thinks; imagines; conceives; presumes; supposes
3. maññati (pr): knows; is convinced; is sure
4. maññati (pr): considers (to be); takes as; regards as; views as; deems as
5. maññe (ind): methinks; one might say; you'd think; as it were

Etymology. √man + ya; from √man 'think'; Sanskrit manya [man]

Meanings from the Digital Pāḷi Dictionary; morphology and etymology by Claude.

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