name
Meaning 1
Synonym of Supreme Being.
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Supreme Being
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Standard Lemma guide
manitou
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name
Meaning 2
A community in the Municipality of Pembina, Manitoba, Canada.
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Meaning 3
An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Hopkins County, Kentucky, United States.
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Meaning 4
A hamlet in Philipstown, Putnam County, New York, United States.
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Meaning 5
An unincorporated community in Mountrail County, North Dakota, United States.
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Meaning 6
A town in Tillman County, Oklahoma, United States.
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noun
Meaning 7
A god or spirit as the object of religious awe or ritual among some American Indians.
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History
Etymology
The Supreme Being sense is a proprialization from the common noun, manitou.
From Pidgin Delaware Manétto, from Unami manëtu and Munsee manútoow, later influenced by French manitou, from Cree/Montagnais manito꞉w; from Proto-Algonquian *maneto·wa (“supernatural being”).
Across languages
Translations
15 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Cree: ᒪᓂᑐᐤ (manitow) — A god or spirit as the object of religious awe or ritual among some American Indians
- Czech: Manitou — A god or spirit as the object of religious awe or ritual among some American Indians
- Fox: manetôwa — A god or spirit as the object of religious awe or ritual among some American Indians
- German: Manitu — A god or spirit as the object of religious awe or ritual among some American Indians
- Japanese: マニトゥ (manitu) — A god or spirit as the object of religious awe or ritual among some American Indians
- Lakota: Wakȟáŋ Tȟáŋka — A god or spirit as the object of religious awe or ritual among some American Indians
- Mi'kmaq: mntu — A god or spirit as the object of religious awe or ritual among some American Indians
- Mohawk: orę́·naʔ — A god or spirit as the object of religious awe or ritual among some American Indians
- Mohegan-Pequot: manto — A god or spirit as the object of religious awe or ritual among some American Indians
- Ojibwe: manidoo — A god or spirit as the object of religious awe or ritual among some American Indians
- Portuguese: manitu — A god or spirit as the object of religious awe or ritual among some American Indians
- Portuguese: manitó — A god or spirit as the object of religious awe or ritual among some American Indians
- Russian: маниту (manitu) — A god or spirit as the object of religious awe or ritual among some American Indians
- Turkish: manitu — A god or spirit as the object of religious awe or ritual among some American Indians
- Unami: manëtu — A god or spirit as the object of religious awe or ritual among some American Indians
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