мәнті

Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic	ٴمانتى
Cyrillic	мәнті
Latin	mäntı
Yañalif	məntj

Etymology

From Old Turkic mantaw (monophthongal: mantū, mantï), from Chinese 饅頭 / 馒头 (mántou, mántóu), from Sanskrit मोद (mōda, “modak, gift, joy”), from Proto-Indo-European *mewd- (“to rejoice”) [2]. False etymological interpretations: "barbarian's head" (because of hieroglyph 蠻 / 蛮 (mán, “barbarian”) in alternative spelling 蠻頭 / 蛮头 (mántóu)) or relation with Chinese 麵 / 面 (miàn, “dough”). At least the Indian modaks [1] are very similar dish (in shape) to the Chinese mántóu and could have entered China with Buddhism.

Noun

мәнті • (mäntı)

1. manti

References

Etymological sources - [2]