mangar

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mangar (plural mangars)

1. Luciobarbus esocinus, a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Luciobarbus.

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• marang, Garman, Ragman, Angram, granma, ragman

In sense 1, from mango (“handle”) +‎ -ar.

mangar (first-person singular present mango, first-person singular preterite manguei, past participle mangado)

1. to put a handle or shaft on (a tool)
2. (colloquial) to grab, to get
3. (colloquial) to scarf, to devour
4. (colloquial) to put, to put on, to slap on
5. (colloquial) to throw, to chuck
6. (colloquial) to hang
7. (colloquial, chiefly in the negative) to work, to do work

   non a mangou onte ― he slacked off yesterday

• “mangar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012
• “mangar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Possibly a Romani borrowing, from mangar (“to ask, beg”) (compare Hindi माँगना (māṅgnā, “to ask, request”)).

• Hyphenation: man‧gar

mangar (first-person singular present mango, first-person singular preterite manguei, past participle mangado)

1. (Northeast Brazil, Northern Portugal, colloquial) to make fun of, to laugh at

Akin to mandanga.

• IPA^(key): /manˈɡaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: man‧gar

mangar (first-person singular present mango, first-person singular preterite mangué, past participle mangado)

1. (colloquial) to nick, pinch, swipe, nab (steal)
2. (colloquial) to scrounge

• “mangar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
• Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN