Manu

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Transliteration of Sanskrit मनु (manu, "man, mankind"). Doublet of man and mann .

Manu (countable and uncountable , plural Manus )

1. (Hinduism ) A title accorded to the progenitor of mankind, first king to rule this earth, who saved mankind from a great global flood.
   • 1988, Hermann Oldenberg, Shridhar B. Shrotri, The Religion of the Veda, page 138:

     Agni is the one who is introduced by Manu, who is kindled by Manu; one requests him to rule at the present sacrifice, as he had done it for Manu, when he "offered the first oblation, with kindled fire, with his (attentive) heart and soul, along with the seven priests" to the gods (X, 63, 7).

2. (theosophy ) The progenitor of the Aryan root -race, which is said to have originated in Atlantis.
3. A male given name from Sanskrit, commonly used in India.

• Swayambhuva Manu

Abbreviation of Emmanuel .

Manu

1. A male given name .

• Amun , NUMA , Numa , Uman , maun

Short form of Immanuel , also used as a nickname for Mauno and Maunu .^[1]

• IPA ^(key): /ˈmɑnu/, [ˈmɑ̝nu]
• Rhymes: -ɑnu
• Syllabification^(key): Ma‧nu
• Hyphenation^(key): Ma‧nu

Manu

1. a male given name
   1. (informal ) Nickname for Mauno Koivisto, Finnish politician and President of Finland (1982–1994)
2. a Finnish surname transferred from the given name

• Manu is the 276^th most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 1,680 male individuals (and as a middle name to 418 more), according to August 2025 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
• The surname Manu belongs to 124 individuals, according to August 2025 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

• maun , muna , namu

manu ("bird"), also a short form of compound names containing this word.

• IPA ^(key): /ˈma.nu/, [ˈmɐ.nu]

Manu

1. a male or female given name from Hawaiian

• Mary Kawena Pukui - Samuel H. Elbert, Hawaiian Dictionary, University of Hawaii Press 1986
• Hawaii State Archives: Marriage records Manu occurs in 19th-century marriage records as the only name (mononym) of 14 women and 26 men.

From manu ("bird"), also a short form of compound names containing this word.

Manu

1. a male given name

Manu

1. a male given name

• Ehret, Christopher, Ehret, Patricia, editors (2012), A Dictionary of Sandawe, Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, →ISBN, page 215

• IPA ^(key): /ˈmanu/ [ˈma.nu]
• Rhymes: -anu
• Syllabification: Ma‧nu

Manu m

1. a diminutive of the male given name Manuel

• IPA ^(key): /ma.ˈny/

Manu

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Manuel

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