mangaba

English

Managba fruits on a tree in Bahia, Brazil

Etymology

Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese mangaba.

Noun

mangaba (plural mangabas)

1. The round, edible fruit of the tree Hancornia speciosa, native to parts of South America.
   • 1821, James Henderson, A History of the Brazil, page 262:

     The cajue, the jabuticaba, the araticu, and the mangaba fruits are common; also oranges, limes, bananas, pine-apples, and water-melons.

   • 1984, Helen R. Lane, transl., The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, translation of La guerra del fin del mundo by Mario Vargas Llosa, published 2012, page 181:

     Once the Counselor rose to his feet, the women of the Sacred Choir offered him a bowlful of goat's milk, a bit of bread, a dish of boiled cornmeal, and a basketful of mangabas.

   • 2002, Nigel JH Smith, Amazon Sweet Sea:

     The soft, thinskinned fruits of mangaba are gathered from contorted, often fireblackened trees on savannas.

Related terms

• mangabeira

Translations

Translations

• Portuguese: mangaba (pt) f

Further reading

• Hancornia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Galician

Verb

mangaba

1. first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of mangar

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• mangaíba

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Tupi ma'ngawa.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /mɐ̃ˈɡa.bɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /mɐ̃ˈɡa.bɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /mɐ̃ˈɡa.ba/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mɐ̃ˈɡa.bɐ/ [mɐ̃ˈɡa.βɐ]

Noun

mangaba f (plural mangabas)

1. mangaba (fruit of the tree Hancornia speciosa)

Derived terms

• mangabal
• mangabeira

Further reading

• “mangaba”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “mangaba”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
• mangaba on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt

Spanish

Verb

mangaba

1. first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of mangar