mango

See also: Mango, mangó, manĝo, and mangō

English

WOTD – 15 December 2012

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mango

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Mangifera indica

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Wikispecies has information on:

Cucumis melo

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Anthracothorax

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Etymology

From Portuguese manga, from Malay mangga. First used for the fruit as early as the 1580s and the tree by the 1670s.^[1]^[2] Ultimately from a Dravidian language^[3] (reconstructed Proto-Dravidian *maṯ-kāy (“unripe mango”), a compound of *mā-m (“mango tree”) + *kāy (“unripe fruit”)^[4]); Oxford English Dictionary says it ultimately stems from Malayalam മാങ്ങ (māṅṅa, “unripe mango”) (മാവ് (māvŭ, “mango tree”) + കായ (kāya, “unripe fruit”)),^[2] while the Online Etymology Dictionary points to Tamil மாங்காய் (māṅkāy, “unripe mango”) (மா (mā, “mango”) + காய் (kāy, “unripe fruit”)).^[1] The etymology of the -o ending is not certain.^[2]

Pronunciation

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Rhymes: -æŋɡəʊ

Noun

mango (countable and uncountable, plural mangoes or mangos)

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

Hypernyms

(tropical fruit tree Mangifera indica): fruit tree, tree
(fruit): fruit, stone fruit, tropical fruit

Derived terms

African mango (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
bush mango (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
mangoey
mango fly (Cordylobia anthropophaga)
mangolike
Mango Mussolini
mangorita
mango worm (Cordylobia anthropophaga)
wild mango (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)

Descendants

→ Armenian: մանգո (mango) (or from Russian манго (mango))
→ Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܡܵܢܓܘܿ (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)
→ Macedonian: манго (mango)
→ Norwegian: mango
→ Polish: mango
→ Romanian: mango
→ Russian: манго (mango)
- → Armenian: մանգո (mango) (or directly from English mango)
- → Kazakh: манго (maño)
- → Mongolian: манго (mango)
→ Slovak: mango
→ Slovene: mango
→ Spanish: mango
→ Swedish: mango
→ Turkish: mango
→ Welsh: mango

Translations

tropical fruit tree Mangifera indica

Arabic: مَنْجُو m (mangū), مَنْجُو m (manjū), مَنْجَا f (mangā), مَنْجَا f (manjā), مَانْجُو‎ m (mangō)
Egyptian Arabic: منجة f (manga)

Moroccan Arabic: منݣة (manga)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܡܵܢܓܘܿ (mango)
Asturian: mangu (ast) m
Balinese: poh
Bengali: আম (bn) (ām)
Burmese: သရက်ပင် (sa.rakpang)
Catalan: mango (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 芒果樹／芒果树, 芒果树 (mángguǒshù)
Czech: mangovník m
Dutch: mangoboom m
Esperanto: mangujo (eo)
Fijian: maqo (fj)
Finnish: mangopuu (fi)
French: manguier (fr) m
Galician: mangueira (gl) f, manga (gl) f
German: Mangobaum m
Hebrew: מַנְגּוֹ (he) m (mángo)
Hiligaynon: mangga
Hunsrik: Mangabaam m
Ido: mangiero (io)
Indonesian: pohon mangga
Japanese: マンゴー (ja) (mangō)
Javanese: pelem (jv)
Khmer: ស្វាយ (km) (svaay)
Kikuyu: mũembe class 3
Korean: 망고 (ko) (manggo)
Latin: aniba (la)
Latvian: mango m
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Macedonian: манго n (mango)
Malagasy: anaran-kazo (mg)
Malay: pokok mangga, pokok pauh
Malayalam: മാവു് (māvŭŭ)
Maltese: mango m, mango
Marathi: आंबा m (āmbā)
Nahuatl:
Tetelcingo: möncocuabi̱tl
Ngazidja Comorian: muyemɓe class 3/4
Norwegian:
Bokmål: mangotre n

Nynorsk: mangotre n
Persian: انبه (fa) (anbe)
Punjabi:
Gurmukhi: ਅੰਬ (pa) m (amba)

Shahmukhi: اَمْب m (amb)
Polish: mango (pl) n
Portuguese: mangueira (pt) f
Russian: ма́нго (ru) n (mángo)
Spanish: árbol de mango m
Swahili: mwembe (sw)
Swedish: mango (sv), mangoträd n
Sylheti: ꠀꠝ (am)
Tagalog: puno ng mangga, mangga (tl)
Tamil: மாமரம் (ta) (māmaram)
Telugu: మామిడి (te) (māmiḍi)
Tetum: haas-hun
Thai: มะม่วง (th) (má-mûuang), ต้นมะม่วง (dtôn má-mûang)
Turkish: mango (tr), hint kirazı
Ukrainian: ма́нго n (mánho), ма́нґо n (mángo)
Uyghur: مانگو (man'go)
Vietnamese: xoài (vi)
Welsh: mango m
Yiddish: מאַנגאָ m (mango)

fruit

Acehnese: mamplam
Afrikaans: mango (af), veselperske (af)
Albanian: mango
Amharic: ማንጎ (mango)
Arabic: مَنْجُو m (mangū), مَنْجُو m (manjū), مَنْجَا f (mangā), مَنْجَا f (manjā)
Egyptian Arabic: منجة f (manga)

Moroccan Arabic: منݣة (manga)
Armenian: մանգո (hy) (mango)
Middle Armenian: ամպաճ (ampač)
Assamese: আম (am)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܡܵܢܓܘܿ (mango)
Asturian: mangu (ast) m
Azerbaijani: manqo (az)
Baluchi: انب (anb), امب (amb)
Basque: kirten, helduleku
Belarusian: ма́нга n (mánha)
Bengali: আম (bn) (am)
Brunei Malay: mangga
Bulgarian: ма́нго n (mángo)
Burmese: သရက်သီး (sa.raksi:)
Catalan: mango (ca) m
Central Dusun: mangga
Chichewa: mango, bango
Chinese:
Cantonese: 芒果 (yue) (mong^4-1 gwo²)

Hakka: 番檨 (fân-son)

Mandarin: 芒果 (zh) (mángguǒ)

Min Nan: 檨仔 (zh-min-nan) (soān-á, soǎiⁿ-á, sōaiⁿ-á, soāiⁿ--á, soān--á)
Cornish: mango m
Czech: mango (cs) n
Danish: mango (da)
Dhivehi: އަނބު (aᵐbu)
Dutch: mango (nl) m, manja
Dzongkha: ཨམ་ཅུ་ཀུ་ལི (am cu ku li)
Eastern Lawa: แป (pae)
Esperanto: mango (eo)
Estonian: mango (et)
Fijian: maqo (fj)
Finnish: mango (fi)
French: mangue (fr) f
Galician: manga (gl) f
Georgian: მანგო (ka) (mango)
German: Mango (de) f
Greek: μάνγκο (el) n (mángko)
Gujarati: કેરી f (kerī)
Hebrew: מַנְגּוֹ (he) m (mángo)
Hiligaynon: mangga, paho
Hindi: आम (hi) m (ām)
Hungarian: mangó (hu)
Hunsrik: Manga f
Icelandic: mangó (is)
Ido: mango (io)
Indonesian: buah mangga (id), mangga (id)
Irish: mangó
Italian: mango (it) m
Japanese: マンゴー (ja) (mangō)
Kannada: ಮಾವು (kn) (māvu)
Kashmiri: اَمب (amb)
Kazakh: манго (maño)
Khmer: ស្វាយ (km) (svaay)
Kikuyu: iembe class 5
Konkani: आम्बो (āmbo) or āmbô
Korean: 망고 (ko) (manggo)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: mango (ku)
Kyrgyz: манго (ky) (mango)
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Lao: ສະວາຍ (sa wāi), ຫມາກມ່ວງ (māk mūang)
Latvian: mango
Lindu: morowe
Lithuanian: mango
Macedonian: манго n (mango)
Malay: mangga (ms), pauh, mempelam
Malayalam: മാങ്ങ (ml) (māṅṅa)
Maltese: siġra tal-mango
Maori: mango (mi)
Marathi: आंबा m (āmbā)
Mongolian: манго (mn) (mango)
Nahuatl:
Tetelcingo: mönco
Navajo: Naakaii bichʼil łitsxooí
Nepali: आम (ām)
Ngazidja Comorian: yemɓe class 9/10
Norwegian:
Bokmål: mango m

Nynorsk: mango m
Oriya: ଆମ୍ବ (āmba)
Persian: انبه (fa) (anbe)
Polish: mango (pl) n
Portuguese: manga (pt) f
Punjabi:
Gurmukhi: ਅੰਬ (pa) m (amba)

Shahmukhi: اَمْب m (amb)
Rohingya: amm
Romanian: mango (ro) n
Russian: ма́нго (ru) n (mángo)
Sanskrit: आम्र (sa) m (āmra)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ма̏нго n

Roman: mȁngo (sh) n
Sindhi: انب (sd)
Sinhalese: අඹ (si) (aᵐba)
Slovak: mango n
Slovene: mango n
Spanish: mango (es) m, (Eastern Bolivia) manga (es) f, (Puerto Rico) mangó (es) m
Swahili: embe (sw)
Swedish: mango (sv) c
Sylheti: ꠀꠝ (am)
Tagalog: mangga (tl)
Tajik: анбаҳ (anbah)
Tamil: மாங்காய் (ta) (māṅkāy), மாம்பழம் (ta) (māmpaḻam)
Tausug: mangga
Telugu: మామిడిపండు (te) (māmiḍipaṇḍu)
Tetum: haas, haas-fuan
Thai: มะม่วง (th) (má-mûuang)
Tibetan: ཨམ (am)
Tigrinya: ማንጉስ (mangus)
Tocharian B: āmpär
Turkish: mango (tr)
Turkmen: mango
Ukrainian: ма́нго n (mánho), ма́нґо n (mángo)
Urdu: آم (ur) m (ām)
Uyghur: مانگو (man'go)
Uzbek: mango (uz), anbah
Vietnamese: xoài (vi), quả xoài, trái xoài
Welsh: mango m
Western Lawa: แป (pae)
Western Panjabi: امب (pnb), انبى
Yakan: mangga
Yiddish: מאַנגאָ (mango)
Zhuang: makmanghgoj

mangoed vegetable

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green bell pepper

Finnish: vihreä paprika
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variety of Cucumis melo

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hummingbird of the genus Anthracothorax

Finnish: hohtokolibri
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Verb

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

(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.

Translations

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

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References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “mango”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 “mango, n.¹”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, June 2021.
^ “mango, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
^ Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju (2003) The Dravidian Languages (Cambridge Language Surveys), Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 526, 530.

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

Anagrams

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