mang

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "mang"

English

Etymology 1

Dialectal rendering of man, as used in American Spanish.

Noun

mang

  1. Alternative form of man (suggesting a Spanish accent)
    • 2014 April 11, Gary Smith, Hero Road‎[1], Strategic Book Publishing Rights Agency, →ISBN, page 46:
      "Chit, mang, you putos are a bunch of racists." Omar's classic Spanglish comeback made everyone break out in raucous laughter.

Etymology 2

From Middle English mang, mangis, imang, emang, variants of Middle English on mang, in mange, from Old English on ġemang. More at among.

Preposition

mang

  1. (Devon) Amid, amongst, among.

Etymology 3

From Middle English mangen, mængen, from Old English mængan, variant of mengan, menċġan (“to mix; mingle”). More at meng, ming.

Verb

mang (third-person singular simple present mangs, present participle manging, simple past and past participle manged)

  1. (Devon) To mix.
    It's all manged up together.

Quotations

Anagrams

Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Nasal (dialectal) variant of mag.

Noun

mang m (plural mangje, definite mangu, definite plural mangjet)

  1. animal young, cub
  2. urchin

Derived terms

Cimbrian

Verb

mang

  1. (auxiliary) to be able to; can

References

  • Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

German

Etymology

From northern Middle High German manc, inmanc and Middle Low German manc (“among”). Related with German mengen, English among.

Preposition

mang (+ dative)

  1. (regional, Northern Germany, chiefly colloquial, dated) among; amidst

Derived terms

Low German

Preposition

mang

  1. among, amongst
    Dor sühst (du) mien Süster mang de Lüüd, de op Straat loopt.
    There you see my sister among the people walking in the street.
  2. amidst

Inflection

Pronominal adverbs of mang
preposition mang
postpositional adv. mang
+ her (hither) -
+ düt (this) hiermang
+ dat (that) dormang
+ wat (what) womang
+ wat (something) enerwegens mang
+ nix (nothing) nargens mang
+ allens (everything) överall mang

Adverb

mang

  1. among

Synonyms

Mandarin

Romanization

mang

  1. Nonstandard spelling of māng.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of máng.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of mǎng.
  4. Nonstandard spelling of màng.

Usage notes

  • Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Norwegian

Etymology

From Middle Norwegian mangr, probably from East Norse.

Pronoun

mang f or m (neuter mangt, plural mange)

  1. In theory the base form of mange (“many”). Only used in the pronoun phrases mang ei f and mang en m.

Derived terms

References

Old Norse

Etymology

From manga (“to barter”).

Noun

mang n

  1. barter, peddling

Declension

  Declension of mang (strong a-stem)
neuter singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative mang mangit mǫng mǫngin
accusative mang mangit mǫng mǫngin
dative mangi manginu mǫngum mǫngunum
genitive mangs mangsins manga manganna

References

  • “mang”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Potawatomi

Noun

mang

  1. loon

Sundanese

Noun

mang

  1. uncle (form of address to a man by young people or children)

Tagalog

Etymology

From a Clipping of manong

Noun

mang

  1. an informal term of address for an elderly man; mister
Synonyms

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Cognate with Muong bang.

Verb

mang • (芒, 𫼳)

  1. to carry
  2. to wear footwear (shoes, boots, sandals, etc.)

Derived terms

Derived terms

Verb

mang • (𦛿)

  1. to be pregnant

Etymology 2

From Proto-Vietic *k-maːŋ; cognate with Muong mang and (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Chut [Rục] /kumaːŋ¹/. Compare Bahnar kơmang (“gill”).

Noun

(classifier cái) mang • (𧋽)

  1. (of a fish) gill
  2. (of a cobra) hood

Derived terms

Etymology 3

From Proto-Vietic *t-ɓaːŋ.

Noun

(classifier con) mang • (𤛘, 𤞽)

  1. muntjac
Synonyms

Zhuang

Pronunciation

(Standard Zhuang) IPA(key): /maːŋ˨˦/

  • Tone numbers: mang1
  • Hyphenation: mang

Etymology 1

From Chinese 猛 (MC maengX, “ferocious; violent; powerful”).

Adjective

mang (1957–1982 spelling maŋ)

  1. brave; bold.
See also

Etymology 2

Noun

mang (1957–1982 spelling maŋ)

  1. curse.
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