Manhattan

manhattan English thumb|Manhattan island Alternative forms the cocktail en manhattan Etymology From the earlier form en Manna-hata recorded by en nl - travelers and settlers, from its name in en unm -, the local Algonquian language. The name generally understood to be a compound of en unm mënatay island or en umu munahan (compare abe manahan) with another element. According to a report by John Heckewelder, the name is connected to a wooded area whose trees were suitable for making bows. Linguist Ives Goddard explains the early forms en Manna-hatta(n) and en Mannahachtink as spellings of umu manaháhtaan place for gathering the wood to make bows and its related locative form umu manaháhteenk. This interpretation breaks down the word as a compound of umu manah-<t:gather> -aht<t:bow> -aan<t:place> 1.Goddard, Ives The Origin and Meaning of the Name 'Manhattan' https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/16790/anth_Manhattan.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y New York History 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20250329193437/https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/16790/anth_Manhattan.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y 29 March 2025 Pronunciation en /mænˈhætn̩/ RP en /mænˈhætn̩/ [mænˈhæʔn̩] GA mənhătən NYC, en /mənˈhætn̩/ [mn̩ˈhætn̩] en En-NYC-Manhattan.ogg NYC en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Zazollo-Manhattan.wav GA en [mn̩ˈhæʔɪ̃n̩] [mn̩ˈhæʔn̩] US, regional en Man hat tan Proper noun An indigenous people of North America who lived in present day New York State. en Q11299 en Borough of Manhattan borough city/New York City s/New York c/USA mainly on Manhattan Island. en New York<id:Q60> < New York<id:Q1384> < United States<id:Q30> < North America<id:Q49> < Earth<id:Q2> World<id:Q2> en Harlem<id:Q189074> Upper West Side Upper East Side Lower East Side Madison Avenue<id:Q109849> Wall Street<id:Q11690> World Trade Center<id:Q20861677> Battery<id:Q13689> en New York County<id:Q11299> County of New York<id:Q11299><qq:coterminous> en Manhattan Island island s/New York c/USA. en 1865 w:Walt Whitman Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d Lo, body and soul—this land, / My own Manhattan with spires, and the sparkling and hurrying tides, and the ships, / The varied and ample land, the South and the North in the light, Ohio’s shores and flashing Missouri, / And ever the far-spreading prairies cover’d with grass and corn. en Hadley Freeman Adam Gopnik: ‘You’re waltzing along and suddenly you’re portrayed as a monster of privilege’ w:The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/dec/08/adam-gopnik-interview-portrayed-monster-privilege 2017-12-08 Adam Gopnik has, by many accounts, including his own, a lovely life. A longtime staff writer for the New Yorker and bestselling author, Gopnik lives in Manhattan with his wife, Martha, a film-maker, and their two children, and he moves in the kind of circles that allow him to drop casual lines into conversation such as: “As John Updike once said to me …”, although he has the nervy Jewish self-consciousness to follow that with “… if you’ll forgive the namedrop.” https://web.archive.org/web/20261017233305/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/dec/08/adam-gopnik-interview-portrayed-monster-privilege 17 October 2026 en number of places c/USA: en ghost town co/Larimer County s/Colorado c/USA. en ucomm co/Manatee County s/Florida c/USA. en township co/Will County s/Illinois c/USA. en village co/Will County s/Illinois c/USA. en ucomm co/Putnam County s/Indiana c/USA. en city/county seat co/Riley County s/Kansas c/USA. en town co/Gallatin County s/Montana c/USA. en ucomm co/Nye County s/Nevada c/USA. Derived terms en Manhattanhenge Manhattanville Borough of Manhattan Manhattan Beach Manhattan Bridge Manhattan clam chowder Manhattan distance Manhattanese Manhattan Island Manhattanism Manhattanite Manhattanization Manhattanize Translations tribe Bulgarian: bg Chinese: Cantonese: yue 曼克頓 maan6 hak1 deon6, yue 曼赫頓 Mandarin: cmn 曼哈頓 Mànhādùn, cmn 曼赫頓 Danish: da Finnish: fi manhattan French: fr Marathi: mr मॅनहॅटन Russian: ru манхэ́ттен m manxɛ́ttɛn borough Bulgarian: bg Манхатън m Chinese: Cantonese: yue 曼克頓 maan6 hak1 deon6, yue 曼赫頓 Mandarin: cmn 曼哈頓 Mànhādùn, cmn 曼赫頓 Danish: da Esperanto: eo Manhatano Finnish: fi Manhattan French: fr Manhattan m Georgian: ka მანჰეტენი Greek: el Μανχάταν n Italian: it Manhattan f Japanese: ja マンハッタン Manhattan Korean: ko 맨해튼 Marathi: mr मॅनहॅटन Russian: ru Манхэ́ттен m Manxɛ́ttɛn Turkish: tr Manhattan Vietnamese: vi Manhattan, vi Mã Nhật Tân Yiddish: yi מאַנהעטן Noun A cocktail made from whiskey, sweet vermouth and bitters. en w:American Gigolo w:Paul Schrader 1980 Julian Kaye Richard Gere Manhattan. Dry Manhattan on the rocks. Derived terms en Vanhattan Translations cocktail Bulgarian: bg манхатън m Chinese: Cantonese: yue 曼克頓 maan6 hak1 deon6, yue 曼赫頓 Mandarin: cmn 曼哈頓 Mànhādùn, cmn 曼赫頓 Danish: da Finnish: fi manhattan French: fr Marathi: mr मॅनहॅटन Russian: ru манхэ́ттен m Tamil: ta மதுக்கலவை References Further reading Manhattan (cocktail) en Cocktails en terms derived from toponyms Dutch Etymology nl en Manhattan, it in turn deriving, via nl nl -, from the nl unm - language. Pronunciation nl /ˌmɛnˈɦɛ.tən/ nl nl-Manhattan.ogg Proper noun nl borough/and/island city/New York City s/New York c/USA Manhattan Derived terms nl Manhattan aan de Maas Noun m -s -tje nl Cocktails en Manhattan cocktail German Etymology de :bor en:Manhattan de en Manhattan. Pronunciation de /mɛ(ː)nˈhɛtən/ [mɛnˈhɛ.tn̩] [ˌmɛːn-] [-tən] de De-Manhattan.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) Proper noun toponym de borough/and/island city/New York City s/New York c/USA Manhattan Declension toponym Derived terms de Mainhattan Noun m,(s),(s) Manhattan cocktail Declension m,(s),(s) Swedish sv: sv:+ (drink) Noun n en Manhattan (borough of New York City) Noun c en Manhattan (cocktail)