MANA

PRONUNCIATION: (MAH-nuh)

MEANING: noun: Power, energy, force, or prestige.

ETYMOLOGY: From Māori. Earliest documented use: 1843.
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M. ANU - How the founder of this site is respectfully but semi-formally addressed when he gives a talk in Paris

m-DNA - a recently-discovered genetic material that carries information from one chromosome to another

MINA - a Bostonian youth under 18 years of age