mange

mange

See also: mangé

English

Etymology

From Middle English manjewe, manjeue, from Old French manjue, derived from mangier (“to eat”) (modern French manger (“to eat”)), from Latin manducare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meɪnd͡ʒ/
• enPR: mānj
• Rhymes: -eɪnd͡ʒ

• Audio (UK)

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Noun

mange (usually uncountable, plural manges)

1. (veterinary medicine) A skin disease of nonhuman mammals caused by parasitic mites (Sarcoptes spp., Demodecidae spp.).

   Synonym: (in horses, obsolete) leprosy

   Coordinate term: (in humans) scabies

   • 1621, w:William Rowley, Thomas Dekker and John Ford, The Witch of Edmonton:

     Not yet come! [the] worrying of wolves, biting of mad dogs, the manges, and the—

Usage notes

• Colloquially used with an article, to have the mange.

Derived terms

• mangy

Related terms

• mandible
• manger

Translations

skin disease

Armenian: քոս (hy) (kʿos) Aromanian: arãnji f, arãnje f, rãnji f, rãnje f Catalan: ronya (ca) f, sarna (ca) f Czech: prašivina (cs) f, svrab (cs) m Danish: skab (da) n Dupaningan Agta: kitatung Dutch: schurft (nl) Esperanto: skabio Finnish: kapi (fi) French: gale (fr) f Friulian: rogne f Galician: raña (gl) f, sarna (gl) f Georgian: მუნი f (muni) German: Krätze (de) f, Räude (de) f, Grind (de) m, Skabies f, Tierräude f Greek: Ancient: ψώρα f (psṓra) Irish: claimhe f, clamh m Italian: scabbia (it) f, rogna (it) f Japanese: 毛包虫症 (mōhōchūshō) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: گەڕی‎ (ku) (gerrî) Latin: sarna f Maori: waihakehake Norman: maungeüe f Plautdietsch: Hunjsfalkrankheit f Polish: świerzb (pl) m Portuguese: sarna (pt) Romanian: jigodie (ro), râie (ro), scabie (ro) Russian: чесо́тка (ru) f (česótka) Serbo-Croatian: šuga (sh) f, svrab (sh) Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: swjerbota f, drapawa f, parch m Spanish: sarna (es), roña (es) f Swedish: skabb (sv) Tagalog: dusdos Tibetan: རྔོ (rngo) Venetian: rogna (vec) f, gratoxa f Welsh: mans m, mansh m, clafr m, clawr (cy) m Yiddish: פּאַרך‎ (parkh)

Further reading

• mange on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Ganem, GenAm, Megan, Megna, engma

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Alemannic German

Verb

mange

1. (Uri, auxiliary) should
2. (Uri) to be in need of something

References

• Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co.

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Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɑŋə]

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Adjective

mange

1. plural of mangen

   • many, a lot

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɑ̃ʒ/

• Audio

  (file)

• Homophones: manges, mangent

Verb

mange

1. inflection of manger:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• magne, magné

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Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French manger.

Verb

mange

1. to eat

Noun

mange

1. food

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Northern Kurdish

Noun

mange ?

1. cow

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Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑŋə/
• Homophone: -mentet

Adjective

mange (comparative fler or flere, indefinite superlative flest, definite superlative fleste)

1. many

Determiner

mange

1. plural of mang en

Derived terms

• mangedobbelt
• mangedoble
• mange takk
• mangeårig
• mangfold
• rekordmange

 

References

• “mange” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²mɑŋːə/

Adjective

mange (comparative fleire, superlative flest)

1. many

Derived terms

• mangedobbelt
• mange takk
• mangeårig
• rekordmange

Pronoun

mange

1. Alternative form of mang ein

References

• “mange” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.