mangar

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mangar (plural mangars)

1. Luciobarbus esocinus, a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Luciobarbus.

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• marang, Garman, Ragman, Angram, granma, ragman

In sense 1, from mango (“handle”) +‎ -ar.

mangar (first-person singular present mango, first-person singular preterite manguei, past participle mangado)

1. to put a handle or shaft on (a tool)
2. (colloquial) to grab, to get
3. (colloquial) to scarf, to devour
4. (colloquial) to put, to put on, to slap on
5. (colloquial) to throw, to chuck
6. (colloquial) to hang
7. (colloquial, chiefly in the negative) to work, to do work

   non a mangou onte ― he slacked off yesterday

• “mangar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• “mangar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Possibly a Romani borrowing, from mangar (“to ask, beg”) (compare Hindi माँगना (māṅgnā, “to ask, request”)).

• Hyphenation: man‧gar

mangar (first-person singular present mango, first-person singular preterite manguei, past participle mangado)

1. (North Brazil, Northeast Brazil, Portugal, colloquial) to make fun of, to laugh at, to mock
2. (Brazil) to take time

   Synonyms: demorar, remanchar

3. (Minho, Northern Portugal) to insert the handle in a tool

• “mangar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
• “mangar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “mangar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “mangar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025

Akin to mandanga.

• IPA^(key): /manˈɡaɾ/ [mãŋˈɡaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: man‧gar

mangar (first-person singular present mango, first-person singular preterite mangué, past participle mangado)

1. (colloquial) to nick, pinch, swipe, nab (steal)
2. (colloquial) to scrounge

• “mangar”, 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
• Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN