mandinga

• Rhymes: -ĩɡɐ
• Hyphenation: man‧din‧ga

Borrowed from Mandinka Mandinka (“someone from Mande”), from Mandiŋ (“Mande”) + -ka (“inhabitant suffix”).

mandinga m or f by sense (plural mandingas)

1. Mandinka

mandinga f (plural mandingas)

1. magic, sorcery, witchcraft

   Synonyms: feitiço, magia, manipanço

2. (informal, figuratively) difficult, trouble

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mandinga

1. inflection of mandingar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “mandinga”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “mandinga”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

Borrowed from Mandinka Mandinka (“someone from Mande”), from Mandiŋ (“Mande”) + -ka (“inhabitant suffix”).

• IPA^(key): /manˈdinɡa/ [mãn̪ˈd̪ĩŋ.ɡa]
• Rhymes: -inɡa
• Syllabification: man‧din‧ga

mandinga m or f (masculine and feminine plural mandingas or mandinga)

1. Mandinka

mandinga m or f by sense (plural mandingas or mandinga)

1. Mandinka
2. (South America) the Devil

• “mandinga”, 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
• Mandinga_(mitología) on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es