maní
/maˈni/ · B2 · noun · m
peanut
🥜 maní sounds like many + knee: many peanuts fall at your knee
Say it as MAH-nee: 'many' + 'knee'. The sentence 'many peanuts at my knee' links the sound to the meaning. The word came into Spanish from Taíno, the Caribbean language of the first people who grew peanuts for Europeans to find.