manjar

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Galician

Noun

manjar f (plural manjares, reintegrationist norm)

  1. reintegrationist spelling of manxar

Verb

manjar (first-person singular present manjo, first-person singular preterite manjei, past participle manjado, reintegrationist norm)

  1. to eat, to chew food
  2. to know

Conjugation

References

  • manjar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Ido

Etymology

From Esperanto manĝi, from French manger, Italian mangiare, ultimately from Latin manducāre.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /manˈʒaɾ/, /manˈd͡ʒaɾ/

Verb

manjar (present tense manjas, past tense manjis, future tense manjos, imperative manjez, conditional manjus)

  1. (transitive) to eat
    Ni manjos kande la manjajo finigos.
    We eat when the food is done.
  2. (figuratively) to eat away; consume

Conjugation

Conjugation of manjar
present past future
infinitive manjar manjir manjor
tense manjas manjis manjos
conditional manjus
imperative manjez
adjective active participle manjanta manjinta manjonta
adverbial active participle manjante manjinte manjonte
nominal
active participle
singular manjanto manjinto manjonto
plural manjanti manjinti manjonti
adjective passive participle manjata manjita manjota
adverbial passive participle manjate manjite manjote
nominal
passive participle
singular manjato manjito manjoto
plural manjati manjiti manjoti

Derived terms

Lombard

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin mandicāre, from Latin manducāre.

Pronunciation

Verb

manjar

  1. (Scriver Lombard, transitive, intransitive) to eat

Conjugation

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

Noun

manjar m (invariable)

  1. (usually uncountable) food

Occitan

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Occitan manjar, from Vulgar Latin mandicāre from Latin manducāre.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /manˈd͡ʒa/
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: man‧jar

Verb

manjar

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to eat

Conjugation

Noun

manjar m (plural manjars)

  1. food
    Synonym: noiridura

Further reading

Old Occitan

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin mandicāre, from Latin manducāre.

Verb

manjar

  1. to eat

Descendants

  • Occitan: manjar

References

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French manger, Old French mengier, or Italian mangiare, from Vulgar Latin mandicāre, Latin manducāre.

Pronunciation

 
 

  • Hyphenation: man‧jar

Verb

manjar (first-person singular present manjo, first-person singular preterite manjei, past participle manjado) (transitive, intransitive)

  1. to eat
  2. (informal) to know
    Ela manja de matemática.She knows mathematics quite well.
  3. (informal) to understand
Conjugation

Etymology 2

Nominalization of Etymology 1.

Pronunciation

 
 

  • Rhymes: -aɾ
  • Hyphenation: man‧jar

Noun

manjar m (plural manjares)

  1. any food or dish, chiefly a well-prepared or sophisticated one
  2. (Brazil) a short name for a number of desserts of Brazilian origin
    Hyponyms: manjar-branco, manjar dos anjos, manjar-imperial

Spanish

Etymology

From a verb that originally meant "to eat" (preserved in Portuguese), borrowed from Old Catalan or Occitan or Old Occitan menjar, from Vulgar Latin mandicāre, Latin manducāre. Doublet of manducar and mangar.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /manˈxaɾ/
  • Rhymes: -aɾ
  • Syllabification: man‧jar

Noun

manjar m (plural manjares)

  1. delicacy, food, sustenance (especially delicious food, or one of the types of foods listed below)
    Synonym: comida
    • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 7:
      Ahí se reúnen con los Brujos muertos, que conservan la misma figura que tuvieron en vida; celebran con ellos grandes y escandalosas orgías en que se sirven los manjares y vinos más exquisitos en vajillas de oro y plata.
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  2. sustenance (something which invigorates mind or body)
    Synonym: sostenimiento
  3. (Chile) dulce de leche (caramel spread)
    Synonyms: natillas (Spain), arequipe (Colombia, Venezuela), leche poleada
  4. (obsolete) suit (one of the four types of cards in a deck)
    Synonym: palo

Derived terms

Further reading