piston (solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder) · plunger, dasher, churn-staff (stick used in a churn) · synonym of härkin (“type of utensil for stirring food”)
çekim: çoğul männät · tamlayan männän
köken: From Proto-Finnic *mäntä, borrowed from Proto-Baltic [Term?] (compare Latvian mente). The original senses were for mixing and stirring utensils; the mechanical sense “piston” (probably 19th century) is from “plunger, dasher, churn-staff”.