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President Rodrigo Duterte extends his hand to skater Margielyn Didal who showed a gesture of respect to the President on September 12, 2018. Mano is an "honouring-gesture" used in Filipino culture performed as a sign of respect to elders and as a way of requesting a blessing from the elder. Similar to hand-kissing, the person giving the greeting bows towards the hand of the elder and presses ...
The gesture is also widely used in Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Venezuela, Latin American countries with large Italian diasporas, with similar connotations. [7] [8] In Malawi, the gesture refers to human testicles (machende) in the Bantu language Chichewa.
Là ci darem la mano" (Italian for "There we will give each other our hands") is a duet for the characters Don Giovanni and Zerlina in Mozart's 1787 opera Don Giovanni (act 1, scene 9). Text [ edit ]
Metate, mano and corn, all circa 12th century AD, from Chaco Canyon, USA Mano, metate and bowl of corn. Museum display of Ancestral Pueblo artifacts at Mesa Verde National Park. A metate (or mealing stone) is a type or variety of quern, a ground stone tool used for processing grain and seeds.
The Mano language, also known as Maa, Mah, Mah-Yacouba, and Mawe, is a significant Mande language of Liberia and Guinea. It is spoken primarily in Nimba County in north-central Liberia and in Nzérékoré , Lola and Yomou Prefectures in Guinea.
Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages. Sometimes a well-known namesake with the same spelling has a markedly different pronunciation. These are known as heterophonic names or heterophones (unlike heterographs , which are written differently but pronounced the same).
A mano (Spanish for hand) is a ground stone tool used with a metate to process or grind food by hand. [1] It is also known as metlapil, a term derived from Nahuatl. [2]
Mano (comics), a comic book supervillain; Mano a 2007 film about Hector Lavoe; Mano (stone), a type of hand stone used to grind grain; Mano (gesture), a Filipino gesture of respect; Mano (mythology), a female deity in Sámi mythology; Mano Maritime, an Israeli cruise line; Mano machine, a theoretical computer described by M. Morris Mano