Meaning of manpleno | Babel Free

Definitions

fistful, handful (the amount that can be held in a closed fist or in a hand, usually up to five of something)

Equivalents

Examples

“manpleno da ĉerizoj”

handful of cherries

“manpleno da spagetoj”

fistful of spaghetti

“[…]La dioj faru al mi tion kaj pli, se la polvo de Samario sufiĉos, ke ĉiuj homoj, kiuj min sekvas, povu preni manplenon da ĝi.”

[…] “The gods do so to me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria will be enough for handfuls for all the people who follow me.”

“— Пе́рвую катего́рию, оди́н, три́дцать да́м, — ко́мкая, о́н вынима́л и́з портфе́ля [го́рсть] черво́нцы, — не́т пе́рвой — втору́ю, е́сли не́ту — бери́ жёсткий.”

‘First class, single, I’ll pay thirty,’ he was pulling the [handful of] banknotes from his briefcase, crumpling them, ‘no first class, get me second… if not—a hard bench!’

“Anstatau^e la TEC-sekretario (se entute la posteno ne vakis) sidis izolite, la manpleno da aktivuloj log^is dise, kunvenis 1–2-foje jare por kelkaj horoj.”

Instead the TEC secretary (if the position was not vacant at all) sat in isolation, the handful of activists lived apart, meeting 1–2 times a year for a few hours.

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