mango

Etymology

From Portuguese manga, from Malay mangga, from Tamil மாங்காய் (māṅkāy) from மா (mā, “mango species”) + காய் (kāy, “unripe fruit”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmæŋɡəʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmæŋɡoʊ/

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• Rhymes: -æŋɡəʊ

Noun

mango (countable and uncountable, plural mangoes or mangos)

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. (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

   • 1943, August 9, “Mary Adgate”, in Stuffed Mangoes‎, Lima, Ohio, page 5:

     Cut tops from mangoes; remove seeds.

   • 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.

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

   mango colour:  

Verb

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

1. (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.

References

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

Anagrams

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.ᵑɡó/

Noun

mangó class 6

1. mango (fruit)
2. plural of bango

Etymology

From English mango, from Portuguese manga, from Malay mangga, from Tamil மாங்காய் (māṅkāy) from மா (mā, “mango species”) + காய் (kāy, “unripe fruit”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaŋɡo/

Noun

mango n

1. mango (the fruit of the mango tree)

Further reading

• mango in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• mango in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Etymology

From English mango, from Portuguese manga, from Malay mangga, from Tamil மாங்காய் (māṅkāy) from மா (mā, “mango species”) + காய் (kāy, “unripe fruit”).

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Noun

mango m (plural mango's, diminutive mangootje n)

1. mango

Etymology

From English mango, from Portuguese manga, from Malay mangga, from Tamil மாங்காய் (māṅkāy) from மா (mā, “mango species”) + காய் (kāy, “unripe fruit”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmanɡo/
• Hyphenation: man‧go

Noun

mango (accusative singular mangon, plural mangoj, accusative plural mangojn)

1. mango (fruit)

Declension

Etymology 1

Etymology 2

Etymology 1

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maˈŋɔʔ/

Noun

mangô

1. (pejorative) Idiot.

Adjective

mangô

1. Stupid, foolish.

See also

• banihut sutil
• lipaton
• manul

Etymology

From English mango, from Portuguese manga, from Malay mangga, from Tamil மாங்காய் (māṅkāy) from மா (mā, “mango species”) + காய் (kāy, “unripe fruit”).

Noun

mango m (plural manghi)

1. mango

Anagrams

• magno, magnò

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈman.ɡoː/, [ˈmaŋ.ɡoː]

Noun

mangō m (genitive mangōnis); third declension

1. dealer, monger (especially of slaves)

References

• mango in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mango in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mango in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• mango in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• mango in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Etymology

Via other European languages, see etymology at English mango.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [maŋɡoː]

Noun

mango m (invariable)

1. tree of the genus Mangifera with aromatic, sweet fruits

   mango ir viens no tropu svarīgākajiem augļu kokiem ― the mango is one of the most important tropical fruit trees

2. mango fruit (the fruit of this tree)

   mango ir tropu koku augļi ― the mango is a tropical tree fruit

   mēs pasūtām mango sulu ar ledu ― we ordered mango juice with ice

Etymology

From English mango, from Portuguese manga, from Malay mangga, from Tamil மாங்காய் (māṅkāy) from மா (mā, “mango species”) + காய் (kāy, “unripe fruit”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈman.ɡɔ/

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Noun

mango n (indeclinable)

1. mango (fruit and tree)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmanɡo/, [ˈmãŋɡo]

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin manicus, from Latin manus (“hand”).

Etymology 2

From English mango, from Portuguese manga, from Malay mangga, from Tamil மாங்காய் (māṅkāy) from மா (mā, “mango species”) + காய் (kāy, “unripe fruit”).

Etymology 3

Further reading

• “mango” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.