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mamana.

Headword: 
mamana.
Principal English Translation: 

put the food on the table in an orderly way (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
mɑhmɑnɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

mamana. nitla. (pret. onitlamaman.) poner la comida por orden y concierto enla mesa.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 52r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

mamana (verb) = to arrange a feast, to set in order
Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1877), 157.

themes: 
Cleanliness, Orderliness (or lack of)
Food, Eating, Cooking