Submitted Name
Type Settlement
Usage Filipino, Cebuano, Hiligaynon, Ilocano, Maranao, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, English, Estonian, Finnish, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Mongolian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Tajik, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek
Scripts مانيلا(Arabic) Մանիլա(Armenian) Маніла(Belarusian, Ukrainian) Манила(Bulgarian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Mongolian Cyrillic, Russian, Serbian, Tajik, Uzbek Cyrillic) မနီလာ(Burmese) 雅加达(Chinese) მანილა(Georgian) Μανίλα(Greek) מנילה(Hebrew) मनीला(Hindi) مانىيلا(Kazakh Arabic) มะนิลา(Thai) منیلا(Urdu)
Pronounced Pron. mah-nee-LAH(Armenian) MU-NEE-LA(Burmese) MA-NEE-LA(Chinese) MA-ni-la(Czech) mə-NIL-ə(English) MAH-NEE-LAH(Georgian) ma-NEE-la(German, Spanish) MAW-nee-law(Hungarian) ma-NYEE-la(Polish) mu-NYEE-lə(Russian) ma-nee-LA(Thai) [key·IPA]
[Meaning & History
From Tagalog Maynila derived from the term may-nilà meaning "where indigo is found", ultimately from Sanskrit नील (nī́la) referring to the indigo plant. This is the name of the capital city of the Philippines.