MANA

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

Magical power.

A monetary unit of ancient greece and the middle east, originally equivalent to the weight of a mina of silver.

A unit of weight of varying value used in the ancient middle east, especially babylonia, mesopotamia and egypt; also an ancient greek measure of weight equivalent to 1/60th of a talent.

One of the south and east asian birds of the starling family sturnidae.

Food miraculously produced for the israelites in the desert in the book of exodus.

(by extension) any boon which comes into one's hands by good luck.

The sugary sap of the manna gum tree which oozes out from holes drilled by insects and falls to the ground around the tree.http//www.museum.vic.gov.au/forest/plants/gum.html