喜樂美語
  1. 1原為玻里尼西亞文化中「靈力／威望」的概念；在遊戲中則常譯作「法力」。

    'Mana' comes from Polynesian cultures (like Māori and Hawaiian), where it means a kind of spiritual power, respect, or authority that a person, place, or object can have — something you earn or is given to you, not something you can just buy. In English today, most people meet this word in video games and fantasy stories, where 'mana' is the energy a character needs to use magic spells.

From the word’s history

Borrowed from Maori mana; the 'magical energy' sense in games began with a 1969 Larry Niven story.

借自毛利語 mana；遊戲的「魔力」用法始於 1969 年的小說。

Wiktionary

組成A loanword taken directly from Polynesian languages, without changing its spelling.

原始詞典資料4 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

mananoun詞源 1/ˈmɑː.nə/

  • 1

    Power, prestige; specifically, a form of supernatural energy in Polynesian religion that inheres in things or people.

    • They further required that a certain number of the old Chiefs should be liberally pensioned by the Government, and placed upon a footing of equality with European gentlemen of independent means, in consideration of their resigning their "mana" as Chiefs in favor of the new system […]
    • The human tribe partakes of the mana or life-force of the animal, and is strengthened […]
  • 2

    Magical energy.

    • Mana is the name we give to the power behind magic.
    • However, all such magik requires the mages [sic] own "MANA" or "internal power" to make it work. Without the mana, a spoken spell is just so much gibberish.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。