mang

• IPA^(key): /mæŋ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Homophone: MAANG
• Rhymes: -æŋ

Dialectal rendering of man, as used in American Spanish.

mang

1. (nonstandard) 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.

   It's all manged up together.

   • 1867, William Frederick Rock, Jim and Nell‎^[3], page 25:

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

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.

• GNMA, Ngam, magn., G-man, AMGN

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• (Myanmar) /maŋ˧/
• (Lianghe) [mɑŋ³¹]
• (Longchuan) [muaŋ³¹]
• (Luxi) [maŋ⁵¹]
• (Xiandao) [mɔŋ³¹]

mang

1. to be an old person

• Inglis, Douglas, Sampu, Nasaw, Jaseng, Wilai, Jana, Thocha (2005) A preliminary Ngochang–Kachin–English Lexicon‎^[4], Payap University, page 78

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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

• IPA^(key): /ˈmanɡ/
• Rhymes: -anɡ

Compare Old Armenian մանր (manr, “small, thin”).^[1]

mang m (definite mangu) (Buzuku)

1. male

   Synonym: mashkull

Borrowed from Latin mancus (“maimed, infirm”); doublet of mënk ‘one-armed’.

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

1. animal young, cub
2. urchin

• mag

• 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 [with dative]

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

• mittenmang (adverb; remains more common)

Inherited from Portuguese mão.

mang

1. hand

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.

• “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.

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

From manga (“to barter”).

mang n

1. barter, peddling

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “mang”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

mang

1. loon

From Proto-Nuristani *mrāngī, alteration of Proto-Indo-Iranian *mr̥gás.

• IPA^(key): /maŋɡ/ (tone class A)

mang (Pronz)^[1]

1. female markhor

mang

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

Clipping of mama +‎ -ng.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈmaŋ/ [ˈmaŋ]
• Rhymes: -aŋ
• Syllabification: mang
• Homophones: Mang, mang-

mang (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜅ᜔) (colloquial)

1. term of address for an elderly man

   Synonyms: manong, kuya

• Mang

• “mang”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [maːŋ˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [maːŋ˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [maːŋ˧˧]

• Audio (Saigon):

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

mang • (芒, 忙, 恾, 𫼳, 茫)

1. to carry

   mang đi ― to leave and take something along

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

2. to wear (footwear)

   Synonym: đi

   mang giày không tất ― to wear shoes without socks

   mang giày cao gót ― to wear high-heels

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

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 • (芒)

1. (anatomy) gills

   Synonym: go

   mang nòng nọc ― tadpole gills

2. (of a cobra) hood

From Proto-Vietic *t-ɓaːŋ.

(classifier con) mang • (𤛘, 𤞽)

1. muntjac

   Synonyms: hoẵng, kỉ, mễn

mang

1. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 忙

mang

1. aphetic form of amang
   • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 114, lines 14-15:

     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 (d. 1827) (before 1828) 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, published 1867, page 114

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /maːŋ˨˦/
• Tone numbers: mang¹
• Hyphenation: mang

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

mang (1957–1982 spelling maŋ)

1. brave; bold.

• damzdingz
• lanh
• moegloet

mang (1957–1982 spelling maŋ)

1. curse.