mange

See also: Mange and mangé

English

Etymology

From Middle English manjewe, manjeue, from Old French manjue, derived from mangier (“to eat”) (modern French manger (“to eat”)), from Latin manducare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meɪnd͡ʒ/
• enPR: mānj
• Rhymes: -eɪnd͡ʒ

• Audio (UK)

  (file)

Noun

mange (usually uncountable, plural manges)

1. (veterinary medicine) A skin disease of nonhuman mammals caused by parasitic mites (Sarcoptes spp., Demodecidae spp.).

   Synonym: (in horses, obsolete) leprosy

   Coordinate term: (in humans) scabies

   • 1621, w:William Rowley, Thomas Dekker and John Ford, The Witch of Edmonton:

     Not yet come! [the] worrying of wolves, biting of mad dogs, the manges, and the—

Usage notes

• Colloquially used with an article, to have the mange.

Derived terms

• demodectic mange
• follicular mange
• mangy
• red mange
• sarcoptic mange

 

Related terms

• mandible
• manger

Translations

skin disease

• Armenian: քոս (hy) (kʿos)
• Aromanian: arãnji f, arãnje f, rãnji f, rãnje f
• Catalan: ronya (ca) f, sarna (ca) f
• Czech: prašivina (cs) f, svrab (cs) m
• Danish: skab (da) n
• Dupaningan Agta: kitatung
• Dutch: schurft (nl)
• Esperanto: skabio
• Finnish: kapi (fi)
• French: gale (fr) f
• Friulian: rogne f
• Galician: raña (gl) f, sarna (gl) f
• Georgian: მუნი f (muni)
• German: Krätze (de) f, Räude (de) f, Grind (de) m, Skabies f, Tierräude f
• Greek:

  Ancient: ψώρα f (psṓra)

• Irish: claimhe f, clamh m
• Italian: scabbia (it) f, rogna (it) f
• Japanese: 毛包虫症 (mōhōchūshō)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: گەڕی‎ (ckb) (gerrî)

• Latin: sarna f
• Maori: waihakehake
• Norman: maungeüe f
• Plautdietsch: Hunjsfalkrankheit f
• Polish: świerzb (pl) m
• Portuguese: sarna (pt)
• Romanian: jigodie (ro), râie (ro), scabie (ro)
• Russian: чесо́тка (ru) f (česótka)
• Serbo-Croatian: šuga (sh) f, svrab (sh)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: swjerbota f, drapawa f, parch m

• Spanish: sarna (es), roña (es) f
• Swedish: skabb (sv)
• Tagalog: dusdos
• Tibetan: རྔོ (rngo)
• Venetian: rogna (vec) f, gratoxa f
• Welsh: mans m, mansh m, clafr m, clawr (cy) m
• Yiddish: פּאַרך‎ (parkh)

Further reading

• mange on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Ganem, GenAm, Megan, Megna, engma

Alemannic German

Verb

mange

1. (Uri, auxiliary) should
2. (Uri) to be in need of something

References

• Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co.

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɑŋə]

• (file)

Adjective

mange

1. plural of mangen

   • many, a lot

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɑ̃ʒ/

• Audio

  (file)

• Homophones: manges, mangent

Verb

mange

1. inflection of manger:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• magne, magné

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French manger.

Verb

mange

1. to eat

Noun

mange

1. food

Northern Kurdish

Noun

mange ?

1. cow

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑŋə/
• Homophone: -mentet

Adjective

mange (comparative fler or flere, indefinite superlative flest, definite superlative fleste)

1. many

Determiner

mange

1. plural of mang en

Derived terms

• mangedobbelt
• mangedoble
• mange takk
• mangeårig
• mangfold
• rekordmange

 

References

• “mange” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²mɑŋːə/

Adjective

mange (comparative fleire, superlative flest)

1. many

Derived terms

• mangedobbelt
• mange takk
• mangeårig
• rekordmange

Pronoun

mange

1. Alternative form of mang ein

References

• “mange” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.