Manna (Hebrew: מָן‎‎) or al-Mann (Arabic: المَنّ ‎‎, Kurdish: gezo‎, Persian: گزانگبین‎‎), sometimes or archaically spelled mana, is an edible substance which, according to the Bible and the Quran, God provided for the Israelites during their travels in the desert during the forty-year period following the Exodus and ...