mango

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English[edit]

WOTD – 15 December 2012    
mangoes (fruit)

Etymology[edit]

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

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Noun[edit]

mango (plural mangoes or mangos)

  1. (botany) A tropical Asian fruit tree, Mangifera indica.
  2. The fruit of the mango tree.
  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 Midwest, 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, “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. (Also often capitalized: Mango)

Translations[edit]

tropical fruit tree Mangifera indica
fruit of the mango tree; Mangifera indica fruit
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Verb[edit]

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 1589804899), page 66:
      For this cookbook, I made mangoed peppers that were not stuffed with cabbage, but stuffed with green and red tomatoes and onions.

Translations[edit]

remove the innards of, fill, and pickle (a fruit)

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Czech[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

mango n

  1. mango

Dutch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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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Noun[edit]

mango m (plural mango's, diminutive mangootje)

  1. mango

Esperanto[edit]

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Wikipedia eo

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA: /ˈmanɡo/
  • Hyphenation: man‧go

Noun[edit]

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

  1. mango (fruit)

Derived terms[edit]

Galician[edit]

Noun[edit]

mango m (plural mangos)

  1. handle

Synonyms[edit]

Hiligaynon[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA: /maˈŋɔʔ/

Noun[edit]

mangô

  1. (pejorative) Idiot.

Adjective[edit]

mangô

  1. Stupid, foolish.

Usage notes[edit]

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

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Italian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

mango m (plural manghi)

  1. mango

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Latin[edit]

Noun[edit]

mangō (genitive mangōnis); f, third declension

  1. dealer, monger

Inflection[edit]

Number Singular Plural
nominative mangō mangōnēs
genitive mangōnis mangōnum
dative mangōnī mangōnibus
accusative mangōnem mangōnēs
ablative mangōne mangōnibus
vocative mangō mangōnēs

Polish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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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Noun[edit]

mango n (indeclinable)

  1. mango (fruit and tree)

Spanish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA: /manɡo/

Etymology 1[edit]

From Latin manicus.

Noun[edit]

mango m (plural mangos)

  1. handle

Etymology 2[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

mango m (plural mangos)

  1. (botany) mango

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