English Explanatory Dictionary

mango

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A tropical Asian fruit tree, Mangifera indica.
  2. The fruit of the mango tree.
  3. A pickled vegetable or fruit with a spicy stuffing; a vegetable or fruit which has been mangoed.
  4. A green bell pepper suitable for pickling.
  5. A type of muskmelon, Cucumis melo.
  6. Any of various hummingbirds of the genus Anthracothorax.
  7. A yellow-orange color, like that of mango flesh.
  8. The breasts.
verb
  1. To stuff and pickle (a fruit).
name
  1. Ellipsis of Mango Island.
  2. Ellipsis of Mango Township.
name
  1. a language spoken in China
name
  1. a language spoken in Chad

Pronunciation

/ˈmæŋɡəʊ/ /ˈmæŋɡoʊ/ /ˈmeɪŋɡoʊ/ en-us-mango.ogg /ˈmæŋɡəʉ̯/ en-au-mango.ogg /ˈmɛŋɡɐʉ̯/ /ˈmaŋɡo/ /ˈmaŋɡoː/

Word forms

mango mangoes mangos manga mangoing mangoed

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-South Dravidian *mā Proto-South Dravidian *m Proto-South Dravidian *mām Malayalam മാം (māṁ) Proto-Dravidian *kāy Malayalam കായ (kāya) Malayalam -ങ്ങ (-ṅṅa) Malayalam മാങ്ങ (māṅṅa)bor. Portuguese mangabor. English mango Borrowed from Portuguese manga, from Malayalam മാങ്ങ (māṅṅa) / Tamil மாங்காய் (māṅkāy), possibly via Malay mangga, ultimately from Proto-South Dravidian *mām-kāy (“unripe mango”), a compound of *mām (“mango tree”) + *kāy (“unripe fruit”). First used for the fruit as early as the 1580s and the tree by the 1670s. The etymology of the -o ending is not certain.

Derived words

African mango Alphonso mango apple mango bandango black-throated mango bush mango hapus mango hillbilly mango mangoade mango bird mango-bird mangoey mango fish mango fly mango ginger mangolike mango melon Mango Mussolini mangonada mangophile mango pudding mangorita mango roll mango shower mango squash mango tilapia mangotini mangotoxin mango trick mango weevil mango worm Milton mango wild mango

Translations

Acehnese: mamplam Afrikaans: mango Afrikaans: veselperske Albanian: mango Amharic: ማንጎ Antillean Creole: mango Arabic: مَنْجُو Arabic: مَنْجَا Arabic: منجة Arabic: منݣة Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܡܲܢܓܘܿ Armenian: մանգո Middle Armenian: ամպաճ Assamese: আম Asturian: mangu Azerbaijani: انبه Azerbaijani: منگو Azerbaijani: manqo Baluchi: انب Baluchi: امب Basque: kirten Basque: helduleku Belarusian: ма́нга Bengali: আম Bhojpuri: आम Breton: mangezenn Bulgarian: ма́нго Burmese: သရက်သီး Catalan: mango Chagatai: اَنْبَه Chakma: 𑄃𑄟𑄴 Cherokee: ᎺᏂᎪ Chichewa: mango Chichewa: bango Chinese Cantonese: 芒果 Hakka Chinese: 番檨 Chinese: 檨仔 Chinese Mandarin: 芒果 Ngazidja Comorian: yemɓe Cornish: mango Czech: mango Danish: mango Dhivehi: އަނބު Central Dusun: mangga Dutch: mango Dutch: manja Dzongkha: ཨམ་ཅུ་ཀུ་ལི East Frisian Low German: mangoo Esperanto: mango Estonian: mango
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