mang

• IPA^(key): /mæŋ/

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• Rhymes: -æŋ

Dialectal rendering of man, as used in American Spanish.

mang

1. Alternative form of man (suggesting a Spanish accent)
   • 2014 April 11, Gary Smith, Hero Road‎, 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.

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

mang

1. (Devon) Amid, amongst, among.

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

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

1. (Devon) To mix.
   • 1867, Rock, William Frederick, Jim and Nell‎, page 25:

     Hagegy Bess; wi' zich, I reckon,
     Ha now delight'h vor mang.

   It's all manged up together.

Borrowed from Angloromani mong (“to beg”), from European Romani mang- (“to want, beg”). Compare Sanskrit mārg-, मार्ग् (“to seek, ask for”).

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

1. (slang, dated, rare, transative, intransitive) To beg; to beg for money.

• AMGN, G-man, Ngam

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• IPA^(key): /maŋ/

mang (uncountable)

1. (Cape Afrikaans) prison, jail

mang (present mang, present participle mangende, past participle gemang)

1. (Cape Afrikaans, intransitive) to be in prison, to do time

• mag

Nasal (dialectal) variant of mag.

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

1. animal young, cub
2. urchin

• mangë
• mangët
• mangth, makth
• mangut

mang

1. (Luserna, auxiliary) to be able to; can

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

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

• IPA^(key): /maŋ/

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mang (+ dative)

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

• mittenmang (adverb; remains more common)

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

mang

1. among

• ünner

mang

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

• 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.

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *maŋ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(s/r)-ma(ŋ/k).

mang

1. dream

• Grammar and Dictionary of the Lushai Language by J.H. Lorrain, Shillong 1898

From Danish mang, mangen, from Old Danish mang.

mang f or m (neuter mangt, plural mange)

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

• en “mang en” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “mange” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Middle Norwegian mangr, probably from East Norse.

mang f or m (neuter mangt, plural mange)

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

• ein “mang ein” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• “mange” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From manga (“to barter”).

mang n

1. barter, peddling

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

mang

1. loon

mang

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

Clipping of mama + -ng.

mang (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜅ᜔)

1. (colloquial) term of address for an elderly man

   Synonyms: manong, kuya

• Mang

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [maːŋ˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [maːŋ˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [maːŋ˧˧]

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Cognate with Muong bang, Tho [Cuối Chăm] baːŋ¹.

mang • (芒, 𫼳)

1. to carry

   mang đi ― to leave and take something with you

   cà phê mang đi ― coffee to go; takeout/takeaway coffee

2. to wear (footwear)

   mang giày không tất ― to wear shoes without socks

   mang giày cao gót ― to wear high-heels

• mặc (“to wear a top or bottom”)
• đội (“to wear headgear”)
• quàng (“to wear a scarf”)
• choàng (“to wear a cape or cloak”)
• khoác (“to wear over the shoulders”)
• đeo (“to wear an accessory or footwear”)

mang • (𦛿)

1. to be pregnant

From Proto-Vietic *k-maːŋ; cognate with Muong mang and Chut [Rục] kumaːŋ¹. Compare Bahnar kơmang (“gill”), Khmu [Cuang] maːŋ ("gill").

(classifier cái) mang • (𧋽)

1. (of a fish) gill

   Synonym: go

2. (of a cobra) hood

From Proto-Vietic *t-ɓaːŋ.

(classifier con) mang • (𤛘, 𤞽)

1. muntjac

   Synonym: hoẵng

mang

1. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 忙

• mang máng (“to remember something vaguely”)

mang

1. Alternative form of amang
   • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, line 14:

     Mang ourzels——var wee dwytheth an Irelonde az ure generale haime——

     Unto ourselves——for we look on Ireland to be our common country——

• Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 114

(Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /maːŋ˨˦/

• Tone numbers: mang¹
• Hyphenation: mang

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

mang (1957–1982 spelling maŋ)

1. brave; bold.

• damzdingz
• lanh
• moegloet

mang (1957–1982 spelling maŋ)

1. curse.