mancar

From Latin manco (“lame; maimed”), see also mancu.

mancar

1. to pierce
2. to hurt, injure

   Mancóse el neñu en mientres diba en bicicleta ― The kid got hurt while riding a bicycle

From manc (“one-handed”) or from Italian mancare.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [məŋˈka]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [maŋˈkaɾ]

mancar (first-person singular present manco, first-person singular preterite manquí, past participle mancat)

1. (intransitive) to be lacking [with de]
2. (intransitive) to be false to, to fail, to go back on [with a]
3. (intransitive) to be missing, to be absent
4. (transitive) to miss, to fail

• mancada

• “mancar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Attested since circa 1300. From Latin manco (“lame; maimed”).

• IPA^(key): [maŋˈkaɾ]

mancar (first-person singular present manco, first-person singular preterite manquei, past participle mancado)

1. to hurt, injure
   • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 343:

     os hũus chagaua, et os outros fería, et os outros derribaua, et aos outros atrauesando, de tal gisa que os mãcaua todos moy mal, et mataua moytos deles

     some he wounded, another ones he hit, and others he knocked down, and the others piercing, so that he injured all very badly, and killed many of them

2. (intransitive) to miss
3. (intransitive) to be deprived of

• mancadela
• mancadura
• manqueira

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “mancar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “mãca”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “mancar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “mancar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “mancar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “mancar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “mancar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From manco (“lame”) +‎ -ar.

mancar (first-person singular present manco, first-person singular preterite manquei, past participle mancado)

1. (intransitive) to limp (to walk lamely, as if favouring one leg)

   Synonym: coxear

2. (rare, transitive) to lame (to cause someone to be lame)

   Synonym: deixar manco

3. (Brazil, slang, pronominal) to make oneself scarce; to leave

   Synonyms: vazar, sumir

4. (dated slang, intransitive) to miss (to fail to attend)

   Synonym: faltar

5. (Brazil, colloquial, pronominal) to notice one's own actions as appropriate or not; to read the room.

   Synonym: tocar

   Se manca! ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

• mancada

• manco
• semancol

• “mancar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

• IPA^(key): /manˈkaɾ/ [mãŋˈkaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: man‧car

mancar (first-person singular present manco, first-person singular preterite manqué, past participle mancado)

1. to injure; maim
2. (intransitive) to lack, to be lacking
3. (intransitive) to miss, to be missing

• “mancar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

mancar

1. (transitive, but normally impersonal) to lack; to be lacking or missing

* Venetan conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.