mango

From Portuguese manga, from Malay mangga, from Tamil மாங்காய் (māṅkāy) from மா (mā, “mango species”) + காய் (kāy, “unripe fruit”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmæŋɡəʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmæŋɡoʊ/

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• Rhymes: -æŋɡəʊ

mango (countable and uncountable, plural mangoes or mangos)

1. A tropical Asian fruit tree, Mangifera indica.
   • 1980, Bruce Chatwin, The Viceroy of Ouidah, page 146:

     On the hot days, he would lie in the shade of a mango and let little Eugenia clamber over his belly and tug at his beard.

2. The fruit of the mango tree.
   • 1738, October–November, Hans Sloan, Philosophical Transactions, volume 40, number 450, “VI. his Answer to the Marquis de Caumont's Letter, concerning this Stone”, translated from the Latin by Thomas Stack, Royal Society (1741), page 376:

     And I have one [bezoar] form'd round the Stone of that great Plum, which comes pickled from thence, and is called Mango.

3. A pickled vegetable or fruit with a spicy stuffing; a vegetable or fruit which has been mangoed.
   • 2004, Elizabeth E. Lea, William Woys Weaver, A Quaker Woman's Cookbook: The Domestic Cookery of Elizabeth Ellicott Lea, page 335:

     In Pennsylvania and western Maryland, mangoes were generally made with green bell peppers.

4. (US, chiefly southern Midwestern US, dated) A green bell pepper suitable for pickling.
   • 1879, Pennsylvania State Board of Agriculture, Agriculture of Pennsylvania, page 222:

     Mango peppers by the dozen, if owned by the careful housewife, would gladden the appetite or disposition of any epicure or scold.

   • 1896, Ohio State Board of Agriculture, Annual Report, page 154:

     Best mango peppers

   • 1943, August 9, “Mary Adgate”, in Stuffed Mangoes‎, Lima, Ohio, page 5:

     Cut tops from mangoes; remove seeds.

   • 2000, Allan A. Metcalf, How We Talk: American Regional English Today, page 41:

     Finally, although both the South and North Midlands are not known for their tropical climate, that's where mangoes grow. These aren't the tropical fruit, though, but what are elsewhere called green peppers.

5. A type of muskmelon, Cucumis melo.
6. Any of various hummingbirds of the genus Anthracothorax.
7. A yellow-orange color, like that of mango flesh.

   mango colour:  

• mangoey
• mango fly
• mangolike
• Mango Mussolini
• mango worm

• → Armenian: մանգո (mango) (or from Russian манго (mango))
• → Catalan: mango
• → Chichewa: bango
• → Czech: mango
• → Danish: mango
• → Dutch: mango
• → Esperanto: mango
• → Finnish: mango
• → Georgian: მანგო (mango)
• → German: Mango
• → Greek: μάνγκο (mángko)
• → Hebrew: מנגו‎ (mango)
• → Hungarian: mangó
• → Irish: mangó
• → Japanese: マンゴー (mangō)
• → Korean: 망고 (manggo)
• → Norwegian: mango
• → Polish: mango
• → Romanian: mango
• → Russian: манго (mango)
  • → Armenian: մանգո (mango) (or directly from English mango)
  • → Mongolian: манго (mango)
• → Slovak: mango
• → Slovene: mango
• → Spanish: mango
• → Swedish: mango
• → Turkish: mango

mango (third-person singular simple present mangoes, present participle mangoing, simple past and past participle mangoed)

1. (uncommon) To stuff and pickle (a fruit).
   • 1870, Hannah Mary Peterson, The Young Wife's Cook Book, page 444:

     Although any melon may be used before it is quite ripe, yet there is a particular sort for this purpose, which the gardeners know, and should be mangoed soon after they are gathered.

   • 1989, William Woys Weaver, America eats: forms of edible folk art:

     In an effort to reproduce the pickle, English cooks took to "mangoing" all sorts of substitutes, from cucumbers to unripe peaches. Americans, however, preferred baby musk melons, or, in areas where they did not grow well, bell peppers.

   • 2008, Beverly Ellen Schoonmaker Alfeld, Pickles To Relish →ISBN, page 66:

     For this cookbook, I made mangoed peppers that were not stuffed with cabbage, but stuffed with green and red tomatoes and onions.

• (bell peppers): The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia

• Gamon, Mogan, among, ang mo, goman, ngoma

mango

1. mango

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.ᵑɡó/

mangó class 6

1. mango (fruit)
2. plural of bango

• bango

From English mango, from Portuguese manga, from Malay mangga, from Tamil மாங்காய் (māṅkāy) from மா (mā, “mango species”) + காய் (kāy, “unripe fruit”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaŋɡo/

mango n

1. mango (the fruit of the mango tree)

• mango in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• mango in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Borrowed from English mango, from Portuguese manga, from Malay mangga, from Tamil மாங்காய் (māṅkāy), from மா (mā, “mango species”) + காய் (kāy, “unripe fruit”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑŋ.ɡoː/

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• Hyphenation: man‧go

mango m (plural mango's, diminutive mangootje n)

1. (Netherlands, Belgium) mango

   Synonyms: manga, manja

2. (Netherlands, Belgium) mango tree, Mangifera indica

• mangoboom

From English mango, from Portuguese manga, from Malay mangga, from Tamil மாங்காய் (māṅkāy) from மா (mā, “mango species”) + காய் (kāy, “unripe fruit”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmanɡo/

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• Hyphenation: man‧go
• Rhymes: -anɡo

mango (accusative singular mangon, plural mangoj, accusative plural mangojn)

1. mango (fruit)

mango

1. mango (fruit)

mango

1. long-nosed kusimanse, common kusimanse, cusimanse, Crossarchus obscurus

   Synonym: kusimanse

mango m (plural mangos)

1. handle

   Synonym: cabo

mango

1. First-person singular (eu) present indicative of mangar

• IPA^(key): /maˈŋɔʔ/

mangô

1. (derogatory) Idiot.

mangô

1. Stupid, foolish.

• The word can sound friendly and affectionate between close people.

• banihut sutil
• lipaton
• manul

From English mango, from Portuguese manga, from Malay mangga, from Tamil மாங்காய் (māṅkāy) from மா (mā, “mango species”) + காய் (kāy, “unripe fruit”).

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• Rhymes: -anɡo

mango m (plural manghi)

1. mango

• magno, magnò

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈman.ɡoː/, [ˈmaŋ.ɡoː]

mangō m (genitive mangōnis); third declension

1. dealer, monger (especially of slaves)

Third declension.

• mango in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mango in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mango in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• mango in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• mango in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Via other European languages, see etymology at English mango.

• IPA^(key): [maŋɡoː]

mango m (invariable)

1. tree of the genus Mangifera with aromatic, sweet fruits

   mango ir viens no tropu svarīgākajiem augļu kokiem ― the mango is one of the most important tropical fruit trees

2. mango fruit (the fruit of this tree)

   mango ir tropu koku augļi ― the mango is a tropical tree fruit

   mēs pasūtām mango sulu ar ledu ― we ordered mango juice with ice

From English mango, from Portuguese manga, from Malay mangga, from Tamil மாங்காய் (māṅkāy) from மா (mā, “mango species”) + காய் (kāy, “unripe fruit”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈman.ɡɔ/

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mango n (indeclinable)

1. mango (fruit and tree)

• IPA^(key): /ˈmanɡo/, [ˈmãŋɡo]

From Vulgar Latin manicus, from Latin manus (“hand”).

mango m (plural mangos)

1. handle (part of an object which is held in the hand)
   • 2011, Estándar de milady: barbero profesional, 5^th edition, Milady, page 353:

     Sostenga el mango de la navaja entre los dedos anular y meñique, […]

     Hold the razor’s handle between your ring finger and little finger, […]

• asa
• manija
• manivela

un mango

From English mango, from Portuguese manga, from Malay mangga, from Tamil மாங்காய் (māṅkāy) from மா (mā, “mango species”) + காய் (kāy, “unripe fruit”).

mango m (plural mangos)

1. mango (fruit and tree)
2. (Argentina, Uruguay, lunfardo, colloquial) cash, dough (money)
   • 1930, Enrique Santos Discépolo (lyrics), “Yira, Yira”, performed by Carlos Gardel:

     Buscando ese mango / Que te haga morfar...

     Looking for that money / That lets you eat...

mango

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of mangar.

• “mango” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
• mango on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es