mange

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See also: Mange and mangé

English

Etymology

From Middle English manjewe, manjeue, from Old French manjue, derived from mangier (“to eat”) (modern French manger (“to eat”)), from Latin manducare.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /meɪnd͡ʒ/
  • enPR: mānj
  • Rhymes: -eɪnd͡ʒ
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)

Noun

mange (usually uncountable, plural manges)

  1. (veterinary medicine) A skin disease of nonhuman mammals caused by parasitic mites (Sarcoptes spp., Demodecidae spp.).
    Synonym: (in horses, obsolete) leprosy
    Coordinate term: (in humans) scabies

Usage notes

  • Colloquially used with an article, to have the mange.

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Alemannic German

Verb

mange

  1. (Uri, auxiliary) should
  2. (Uri) to be in need of something

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Danish

Pronunciation

Adjective

mange

  1. plural of mangen

French

Pronunciation

Verb

mange

  1. inflection of manger:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

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Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French manger.

Verb

mange

  1. to eat

Noun

mange

  1. food

Northern Kurdish

Noun

mange ?

  1. cow

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

Adjective

mange (comparative fler or flere, indefinite superlative flest, definite superlative fleste)

  1. many

Determiner

mange

  1. plural of mang en

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

Adjective

mange (comparative fleire, superlative flest)

  1. many

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Pronoun

mange

  1. Alternative form of mang ein

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Nupe

Màǹgèzhì

Pronunciation

Noun

màǹgè (plural màǹgèzhì)

  1. pitcher; pot (in particular) a clay water pot with a long neck
    Yinzàgi è lá màǹgè kpetí u bo. ― The woman is putting a clay pitcher on her head.

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