manejar
/maneˈxaɾ/ · A2 · verb
to drive
🚗 manejar = mano (hand) + -ejar: to work by hand, same root as manage
From Italian maneggiare, built on Latin manus (hand). English manage is the same word. To handle something is to have your hands on it, and in Latin America that stretched to hands on the wheel: to drive.