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English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mæŋ/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -æŋ

Etymology 1

Dialectal rendering of man, as used in American Spanish.

Noun

mang

  1. (nonstandard) Alternative form of man (suggesting a Spanish accent)
    • 2014 April 11, Gary Smith, Hero Road, Strategic Book Publishing Rights Agency, →ISBN, page 46:
      "Chit, mang, you putos are a bunch of racists." Omar's classic Spanglish comeback made everyone break out in raucous laughter.

Etymology 2

From Middle English mang, mangis, imang, emang, variants of Middle English on mang, in mange, from Old English on ġemang. More at among.

Preposition

mang

  1. (Devon) Amid, amongst, among.

Etymology 3

From Middle English mangen, mængen, from Old English mængan, variant of mengan, menċġan (“to mix; mingle”). More at meng, ming.

Verb

mang (third-person singular simple present mangs, present participle manging, simple past and past participle manged)

  1. (Devon) To mix.
    It's all manged up together.
    • 1867, William Frederick Rock, Jim and Nell‎, page 25:
      Hagegy Bess; wi' zich, I reckon,
      Ha now delight'h vor mang.

Etymology 4

Borrowed from Angloromani mong (“to beg”), from European Romani mang- (“to want, beg”). Compare Sanskrit mārg-, मार्ग् (“to seek, ask for”).

Verb

mang (third-person singular simple present mangs, present participle manging, simple past and past participle manged)

  1. (slang, dated, rare, transative, intransitive) To beg; to beg for money.

Anagrams

Afrikaans

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

Noun

mang (uncountable)

  1. (Cape Afrikaans) prison, jail

Verb

mang (present mang, present participle mangende, past participle gemang)

  1. (Cape Afrikaans, intransitive) to be in prison, to do time

Albanian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Compare Old Armenian մանր (manr, “small, thin”).

Noun

mang m (definite mangu) (Buzuku)

  1. male
    Synonym: mashkull

References

  1. ^ The Indo-European Languages‎, 2015, page 499

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin mancus (“maimed, infirm”); doublet of mënk ‘one-armed’.

Noun

mang m (plural mangje, definite mangu, definite plural mangjet)

  1. animal young, cub
  2. urchin
Declension
Declension of mang
indefinite definite
singular plural singular plural
nominative mang mangje mangu mangjet
accusative mangun
dative mangu mangjeve mangut mangjevet
ablative mangjesh
Alternative forms
Derived terms

Cimbrian

Verb

mang

  1. (Luserna, auxiliary) to be able to; can

References

German

Etymology

From northern Middle High German manc, inmanc and Middle Low German manc (“among”). Related with German mengen, English among.

Pronunciation

Preposition

mang (+ dative)

  1. (Northern Germany, colloquial, dated) among; amidst

Derived terms

Low German

Preposition

mang

  1. among, amongst
    Dor sühst (du) mien Süster mang de Lüüd, de op Straat loopt.
    There you see my sister among the people walking in the street.
  2. amidst

Inflection

Pronominal adverbs of mang
preposition mang
postpositional adv. mang
+ her (hither) -
+ düt (this) hiermang
+ dat (that) dormang
+ wat (what) womang
+ wat (something) enerwegens mang
+ nix (nothing) nargens mang
+ allens (everything) överall mang

Adverb

mang

  1. among

Synonyms

Mandarin

Romanization

mang

  1. Nonstandard spelling of māng.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of máng.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of mǎng.
  4. Nonstandard spelling of màng.

Usage notes

  • Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Mizo

Etymology

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *maŋ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(s/r)-ma(ŋ/k).

Noun

mang

  1. dream

References

  • Grammar and Dictionary of the Lushai Language by J.H. Lorrain, Shillong 1898

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Danish mang, mangen, from Old Danish mang.

Pronoun

mang f or m (neuter mangt, plural mange)

  1. In theory the base form of mange (“many”). Only used in the phrases mang ei f, mang en m, and mangt et.

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Middle Norwegian mangr, probably from East Norse.

Pronoun

mang f or m (neuter mangt, plural mange)

  1. In theory the base form of mange (“many”). Only used in the pronoun phrases mang ein m and mang ei f, and mangt eit n.

References

Old Norse

Etymology

From manga (“to barter”).

Noun

mang n

  1. barter, peddling

Declension

  Declension of mang (strong a-stem)
neuter singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative mang mangit mǫng mǫngin
accusative mang mangit mǫng mǫngin
dative mangi manginu mǫngum mǫngunum
genitive mangs mangsins manga manganna

References

  • “mang”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Potawatomi

Noun

mang

  1. loon

Sundanese

Noun

mang

  1. uncle (form of address to a man by young people or children)

Tagalog

Etymology

Clipping of mama + -ng.

Noun

mang (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜅ᜔)

  1. (colloquial) term of address for an elderly man
    Synonyms: manong, kuya

Related terms

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Cognate with Muong bang, Tho baːŋ¹.

Verb

mang • (芒, 忙, 恾, 𫼳, 茫)

  1. to carry
    mang đi ― to leave and take something along
    cà phê mang đi ― coffee to go; takeout/takeaway coffee
  2. to wear (footwear)
    Synonym: đi
    mang giày không tất ― to wear shoes without socks
    mang giày cao gót ― to wear high-heels
See also
  • choàng (“to wear a cape or cloak”)
  • đeo (“to wear an accessory or footwear”)
  • đội (“to wear headgear”)
  • khoác (“to wear over the shoulders”)
  • mặc (“to wear a top or bottom”)
  • quàng (“to wear a scarf”)

Verb

mang • (𦛿)

  1. to be pregnant

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Proto-Vietic *k-maːŋ; cognate with Muong mang and Chut kumaːŋ¹. Compare Bahnar kơmang (“gill”), Khmu maːŋ ("gill").

Noun

(classifier cái) mang • (芒)

  1. (anatomy) gills
    Synonym: go
    mang nòng nọc ― tadpole gills
  2. (of a cobra) hood
Derived terms

Etymology 3

From Proto-Vietic *t-ɓaːŋ.

Noun

(classifier con) mang • (𤛘, 𤞽)

  1. muntjac
    Synonyms: hoẵng, kỉ

Etymology 4

Romanization

mang

  1. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 忙
Derived terms

Yola

Preposition

mang

  1. Aphetic form of amang
    • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 114, lines 14-15:
      Mang ourzels——var wee dwytheth an Irelonde az ure generale haime——
      Unto ourselves——for we look on Ireland to be our common country——

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 114

Zhuang

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Chinese 猛 (MC maengX, “ferocious; violent; powerful”).

Adjective

mang (1957–1982 spelling maŋ)

  1. brave; bold.
See also

Etymology 2

Noun

mang (1957–1982 spelling maŋ)

  1. curse.
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