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manti^¹

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The immediate source is Turkish mantı or Ottoman Turkish مانطی (mantı). Before that, the origin is obscure. The word was widespread in Central Asia by the 13th century. Possibly from Middle Chinese 饅頭 (man duw), which would make it a doublet of mandu, manju, and mantou.

noun manti · manties

A type of dumpling served in Turkish, Armenian and Central Asian cuisine. And they kept one of the national dishes, manti (pasta stuffed with ground beef served in garlic-yogurt sauce, $11.50), as well as lahmacun, sort of a Turkish pizza ($3), and arnavut cigeri (fried calf's liver and potatoes, $5.75), a hot appetizer.

Manti^²

/ˈmæntaɪ/

Rhymes with -aɪ

proper noun

One of the four Nephite spies in the Book of Mormon.
A city, the county seat of Sanpete County, Utah.

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noun type of dumpling

한국어	만트 manteu
日本語	マンティ manti
中文	曼特 màntè, 突厥饅頭 /突厥馒头 Tūjué mántou, 土耳其饅頭 /土耳其馒头 Tǔ'ěrqí mántou
Ελληνικά	μαντί mantí
Русский	манты́ mantý, манту́ mantú, ма́ньтоу mánʹtou, маньто́у manʹtóu
العربية	مَنْتُو mantū
עברית	מֶנְטוּ mantu, מנטי manti

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@misc{manti_2026,
  title = {manti},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/manti},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}