mangaba

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English

Managba fruits on a tree in Bahia, Brazil

Etymology

Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese mangaba.

Noun

mangaba (plural mangabas)

  1. The round, edible fruit of the tree Hancornia speciosa, native to parts of South America.
    • 1821, James Henderson, A History of the Brazil, page 262:
      The cajue, the jabuticaba, the araticu, and the mangaba fruits are common; also oranges, limes, bananas, pine-apples, and water-melons.
    • 1984, Helen R. Lane, transl., The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, translation of La guerra del fin del mundo by Mario Vargas Llosa, published 2012, page 181:
      Once the Counselor rose to his feet, the women of the Sacred Choir offered him a bowlful of goat's milk, a bit of bread, a dish of boiled cornmeal, and a basketful of mangabas.
    • 2002, Nigel JH Smith, Amazon Sweet Sea:
      The soft, thinskinned fruits of mangaba are gathered from contorted, often fireblackened trees on savannas.

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Further reading

Galician

Verb

mangaba

  1. first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of mangar

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Tupi ma'ngawa.

Pronunciation

 

Noun

mangaba f (plural mangabas)

  1. mangaba (fruit of the tree Hancornia speciosa)

Derived terms

Further reading

Spanish

Verb

mangaba

  1. first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of mangar
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