manicure

English

Etymology

From French manucure, coming from Latin manus, hand, and cura, care.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmæ.nɪ.kjʊɹ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

manicure (plural manicures)

1. A cosmetic treatment for the fingernails.
2. (dated) A manicurist.

Descendants

• → Japanese: マニキュア
• → Korean: 매니큐어 (maenikyueo)

Translations

cosmetic treatment for the fingernails

• Arabic: مَانِيكِير m (manikēr), (beauty treatment for hands) تَجْمِيل الْيَدَيْن m (tajmīl al-yadayn), (fingernails) تَجْمِيل الْأَظَافِر m (tajmīl al-ʔaẓāfir)

  Hijazi Arabic: مَنِكير m (manikēr)

• Azerbaijani: manikür
• Belarusian: манікю́р m (manikjúr)
• Bulgarian: маникю́р (bg) m (manikjúr)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 修甲 (sau¹ gaap³)

  Mandarin: 修指甲 (zh) (xiūzhǐjia), 修指 (xiūzhǐ)

• Czech: manikúra f
• Estonian: maniküür
• Finnish: manikyyri (fi)
• French: manucure (fr) f
• German: Maniküre (de) f
• Hungarian: manikűr (hu)
• Japanese: マニキュア (ja) (manikyua)
• Kazakh: маникюр (manikür)
• Korean: 매니큐어 (ko) (maenikyueo), 손톱물감 (sontommulgam) (North Korea)
• Latvian: manikīrs m
• Lithuanian: manikiūras m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: manikyr m

  Nynorsk: manikyr m

• Persian: مانیکور (fa) (mânikur)
• Polish: manicure (pl) m, manikiur (pl) m
• Portuguese: manicure (pt) f, manicura (pt) f
• Russian: маникю́р (ru) m (manikjúr)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: маникир m

  Roman: manikir (sh) m

• Slovak: manikúra f
• Spanish: manicura (es) f
• Swedish: manikyr (sv) c
• Turkish: manikür (tr)
• Ukrainian: манікю́р m (manikjúr)
• Vietnamese: sửa móng tay

Verb

manicure (third-person singular simple present manicures, present participle manicuring, simple past and past participle manicured)

1. (transitive) To apply such a treatment to the hands.
2. (transitive, figurative) To polish or trim something very finely or evenly.

Derived terms

• French manicure
• manicurism
• manicurist

See also

• pedicure

Anagrams

• neuramic

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Verb

manicure

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of manicuren

French

Noun

manicure m or f (plural manicures)

1. Alternative spelling of manucure

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.niˈku.re/
• Rhymes: -ure
• Hyphenation: ma‧ni‧cù‧re

Noun

manicure f (invariable)

1. manicure
2. manicurist

   Synonym: manicurista

Anagrams

• cumarine, numerica

Polish

Alternative forms

• manikiur

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French manicure.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.ɲiˈkir/, /ma.ɲiˈkjur/, /maˈɲi.kjur/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ir, -ur, -ikjur
• Syllabification: ma‧ni‧cure

Noun

manicure m inan

1. manicure (cosmetic treatment for the fingernails)

Declension

Declension of manicure

	singular	plural
nominative	manicure	manicure'y
genitive	manicure'u	manicure'ów
dative	manicure'owi	manicure'om
accusative	manicure	manicure'y
instrumental	manicure'em	manicure'ami
locative	manicurze	manicure'ach
vocative	manicurze	manicure'y

Derived terms

(nouns):

• manicurzysta
• manicurzystka

Further reading

• manicure in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• manicure in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• manicura

Etymology

Borrowed from French manucure.

Noun

manicure f (plural manicures)

1. manicure (cosmetic treatment for the fingernails)

   Synonym: manicura

Noun

manicure m or f by sense (plural manicures)

1. manicurist (person who performs manicures)

   Synonym: manicuro

Spanish

Etymology

Alternative form of manicura

Noun

manicure f (plural manicures)

1. manicure