منتو

• مانتو, مانطو

Derived from Middle Chinese 饅頭 (man duw).

منتو (mantu or manto)

1. type of meat-dumpling: manti

• Uyghur: مانتا (manta)
• Uzbek:

  Latin script: manti

  Arabic script: منتو (mantu) (Afghanistan)

• → Classical Persian: مَنْتُو (mantū)
  • Tajik: манту (mantu)
  • → Pashto: منتو (mantu), منټو (manṭu), مڼتو (maṇtu)
• → Hijazi Arabic: منتو (mantu)

• Jarring, Gunnar (1964), “mɑntu ~ mɑnto”, in An Eastern Turki-English Dialect Dictionary‎^[2], C.W.K. Gleerup, page 186

Ultimately derived from Chagatai منتو (mantu), via migration of Central Asians from the USSR to Saudi Arabia. Compare Persian منتو (mantū / mantu).

• IPA^(key): /mantu/

منتو • (mantu) m

1. manti, mantou

Borrowed from Chagatai منتو (mantu),^[1] from Middle Chinese 饅頭 (man duw).

Compare Turkish mantı, Kazakh мәнті (mäntı), Uyghur مانتا (manta), Korean 만두 (mandu), Mandarin 饅頭／馒头 (mántou), and Japanese 饅(まん)頭(じゅう) (manjū).

منتو • (mantū / mantu) (Tajik spelling манту)

1. manti (Central Asian dumpling)

• Tajik: манту (mantu)
• → Pashto: منتو (mantu), منټو (manṭu), مڼتو (maṇtu)

• منتو on the Persian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fa
• Bulkin, Carleton (2012), “منتو”, in Dari-English/English-Dari practical dictionary, 2nd edition, New York: Hippocrene Books, →ISBN, →LCCN

منتو (mantu) (plural منتولر)

1. Afghan Uzbek spelling of manti

• Aimaq, Dr. Fayzullah (2007), “منتو”, in فرهنگ اوزبیکی به فارسی / دری [farhang-i ōzbēkī ba fārsī / darī, Uzbek-Persian/Dari dictionary] (overall work in Persian), page 640