mangup

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish منكوب (menkûb, menkûp), from Arabic مَنْكُوب (mankūb, “afflicted, troubled, injured”), from the root ن ك ب (n-k-b), akin to نَكْبَة (nakba).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mǎnɡup/
  • Hyphenation: man‧gup

Noun

màngup m (Cyrillic spelling ма̀нгуп)

  1. idler, loafer
  2. mischievous child

Declension

Declension of mangup
singular plural
nominative màngup mangupi
genitive màngupa mȁngūpā
dative mangupu mangupima
accusative mangupa mangupe
vocative mangupe mangupi
locative mangupu mangupima
instrumental mangupom mangupima

References

  • “mangup”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
  • Škaljić, Abdulah (1966) Turcizmi u srpskohrvatskom jeziku, Sarajevo: Svjetlost, page 445
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