manège

See also: manege, Manege, and manége

English

Etymology

From French manège; cognate with French manier and English manage.

Noun

manège (countable and uncountable, plural manèges)

1. The art of training and riding horses; dressage.
2. A riding school.
3. (Britain) A riding arena (enclosed, but usually unroofed area, in contradistinction to a riding hall).
4. The movements of a trained horse.

Translations

art

• Finnish: (hevosten) koulutus (fi)- ja ratsastustaito, dresyyri (fi)
• French: manège (fr) m

• German: Dressierkunst f, Reitkunst f
• Russian: иску́сство верхово́й езды́ n (iskússtvo verxovój jezdý) (art of riding), иску́сство дрессиро́вки лошаде́й n (iskússtvo dressiróvki lošadéj) (art of training), мане́ж (ru) m (manéž)

school

• Finnish: ratsastuskoulu
• French: manège (fr) m
• German: Reitschule (de) f
• Greek: σχολή ιππασίας f (scholí ippasías)

• Italian: maneggio (it) m
• Persian: مانژ‎ (fa) (mânež)
• Russian: шко́ла верхово́й езды́ f (škóla verxovój jezdý), мане́ж (ru) m (manéž)

unroofed arena

• Finnish: ratsastuskenttä, kenttä (fi) (not maneesi = riding hall)
• French: manège (fr) m découvert
• German: Reitplatz, Reitbahn (not Manege = circus ring, riding hall arena)

• Persian: مانژ‎ (fa) (mânež)
• Russian: мане́ж (ru) m (manéž), аре́на (ru) f (aréna)

Verb

manège (third-person singular simple present manèges, present participle manèging, simple past and past participle manèged)

1. (transitive) To train (a horse).

See also

• dressage

Anagrams

• Meegan, menage, ménage

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian maneggio, deverbal of maneggiare (cognate with French manier).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.nɛʒ/

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Noun

manège m (plural manèges)

1. The art of training and riding horses.
2. riding school
3. (unroofed) riding arena
4. riding hall
5. fairground attraction; merry-go-round (UK), carousel (US)
6. (figuratively) (little) game, ploy, goings-on

   Synonym: jeu

Derived terms

• manéger

Further reading

• “manège” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• engame, engamé, magnée, mangée, Mégane, ménage, ménagé