mânca

See also: manca, mancà, and mâncă

Romanian

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *manucāre, from Latin manducāre. Compare Italian manucare, variant of manducare, itself an obsolete variant of mangiare (this form being a borrowing from French).

a mânca (third-person singular present mănâncă, past participle mâncat) 1st conjugation

(transitive) to eat
Ei nu pot mânca carne pentru că sunt vegetarieni.
They can't eat meat because they're vegetarians.
(figuratively) to eat away at, corrode; also to bite/sting (of insects)
Rugina mănâncă din fier.
Rust eats away the iron.
(with accusative) to itch
Mă mănâncă pielea.
My skin itches.

conjugation of mânca (first conjugation, no infix)