manti

M3A1N1T1I1
/ˈmæntaɪ/

noun

A type of dumpling served in Turkish, Armenian and Central Asian cuisine.

OriginTurkish mantı ← Ottoman Turkish مانطی →
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Meanings

manti1

nounmanti (plural manti or manties)

plural manties

  1. A type of dumpling served in Turkish, Armenian and Central Asian cuisine.

    Crowding the table were miniature, hand-formed lamb dumplings called manti; flaky pastries, called boreks, filled with wild greens; and an elaborate paste of chicken, wheat and pistachios called keskek.

    2007 December 5, Melissa Clark, “When It Looks at You, It’s Done”, in New York Times
    1 more example

    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.

    1998 November 13, Ted Shen, “Restaurant Tours: Metin Kurtulus serves Turkey”, in Chicago Reader

Manti2

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

Origin

  1. Ottoman Turkishمانطی
  2. Turkishmantı
  3. Englishmanti

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.

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Translations

Arabic مَنْتُو
  • مَنْتُو (mantū)type of dumpling
Bulgarian мантъ
  • мантъ (mant)type of dumpling
Chinese Mandarin 曼特, 突厥饅頭 /突厥馒头
  • 曼特 (màntè)type of dumpling
  • 突厥饅頭 /突厥馒头 (Tūjué mántou)type of dumpling
  • 土耳其饅頭 /土耳其馒头 (Tǔ'ěrqí mántou)type of dumpling
Greek μαντί
  • μαντί (mantí)type of dumpling
Hebrew מֶנְטוּ, מנטי
  • מֶנְטוּ (mantu)type of dumpling
  • מנטי (manti)type of dumpling
Indonesian manti
  • mantitype of dumpling
Japanese マンティ
  • マンティ (manti)type of dumpling
Korean 만트
  • 만트 (manteu)type of dumpling
Russian манты́, манту́
  • манты́ (mantý)type of dumpling
  • манту́ (mantú)type of dumpling
  • ма́ньтоу (mánʹtou)type of dumpling
  • маньто́у (manʹtóu)type of dumpling
Turkish mantı
  • mantıtype of dumpling

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with manti

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Anagrams

matintamin
Cite this entry
APA

manti. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/manti

MLA

“manti.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/manti. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “manti,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/manti.

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