mango

• manga (obsolete)

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”).^[1] First used for the fruit as early as the 1580s and the tree by the 1670s.^[2][3] The etymology of the -o ending is not certain.^[3]

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmæŋɡəʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmæŋɡoʊ/
  • (æ-raising) IPA^(key): [ˈmeɪŋɡoʊ]

• Audio (US):

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• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -æŋɡəʊ

mango (countable and uncountable, plural mangoes or mangos)

1. A tropical Asian fruit tree, Mangifera indica.
   • 1980, Bruce Chatwin, The Viceroy of Ouidah, page 146:

     On the hot days, he would lie in the shade of a mango and let little Eugenia clamber over his belly and tug at his beard.

3. The fruit of the mango tree.
   • 1738, October–November, Hans Sloan, Philosophical Transactions, volume 40, number 450, “VI. his Answer to the Marquis de Caumont's Letter, concerning this Stone”, translated from the Latin by Thomas Stack, Royal Society (1741), page 376:

     And I have one [bezoar] form'd round the Stone of that great Plum, which comes pickled from thence, and is called Mango.

4. A pickled vegetable or fruit with a spicy stuffing; a vegetable or fruit which has been mangoed.
   • 2004, Elizabeth E. Lea, William Woys Weaver, A Quaker Woman's Cookbook: The Domestic Cookery of Elizabeth Ellicott Lea, page 335:

     In Pennsylvania and western Maryland, mangoes were generally made with green bell peppers.

5. (US, chiefly southern Midland US, dated) A green bell pepper suitable for pickling.
   • 1879, Pennsylvania State Board of Agriculture, Agriculture of Pennsylvania, page 222:

     Mango peppers by the dozen, if owned by the careful housewife, would gladden the appetite or disposition of any epicure or scold.

   • 1896, Ohio State Board of Agriculture, Annual Report, page 154:

     Best mango peppers

   • 1943 August 9, Mary Adgate, “Stuffed Mangoes”, in The Lima News‎^[2], Lima, Ohio, page 5:

     Cut tops from mangoes; remove seeds.

   • 2000, Allan A. Metcalf, How We Talk: American Regional English Today, page 41:

     Finally, although both the South and North Midlands are not known for their tropical climate, that's where mangoes grow. These aren't the tropical fruit, though, but what are elsewhere called green peppers.

6. A type of muskmelon, Cucumis melo.
7. Any of various hummingbirds of the genus Anthracothorax.
8. A yellow-orange color, like that of mango flesh.

   mango:  

9. (in the plural, slang) The breasts.

• (tropical fruit tree Mangifera indica): fruit tree, tree
• (fruit): fruit, stone fruit, tropical fruit

• → Armenian: մանգո (mango) (or from Russian манго (mango))
• → Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܡܵܢܓܘܿ (mango)
• → Asturian: mangu
• → Catalan: mango
• → Chichewa: bango
• → Czech: mango
• → Danish: mango
• → Dutch: mango
• → Esperanto: mango
• → Finnish: mango
• → Georgian: მანგო (mango)
• → German: Mango
• → Greek: μάνγκο (mángko)
• → Hebrew: מנגו (mango)
• → Hungarian: mangó
• → Irish: mangó
• → Italian: mango
• → Japanese: マンゴー (mangō)
• → Korean: 망고 (manggo)
• → Macedonian: манго (mango)
• → Norwegian: mango
• → Polish: mango
• → Romanian: mango
• → Russian: манго (mango)
  • → Armenian: մանգո (mango) (or directly from English mango)
  • → Kazakh: манго (maño)
  • → Mongolian: манго (mango)
• → Slovak: mango
• → Slovene: mango
• → Spanish: mango
• → Swedish: mango
• → Turkish: mango
• → Welsh: mango

mango (third-person singular simple present mangoes, present participle mangoing, simple past and past participle mangoed)

1. (uncommon) To stuff and pickle (a fruit).
   • 1870, Hannah Mary Peterson, The Young Wife's Cook Book, page 444:

     Although any melon may be used before it is quite ripe, yet there is a particular sort for this purpose, which the gardeners know, and should be mangoed soon after they are gathered.

   • 1989, William Woys Weaver, America eats: forms of edible folk art:

     In an effort to reproduce the pickle, English cooks took to "mangoing" all sorts of substitutes, from cucumbers to unripe peaches. Americans, however, preferred baby musk melons, or, in areas where they did not grow well, bell peppers.

   • 2008, Beverly Ellen Schoonmaker Alfeld, Pickles To Relish, →ISBN, page 66:

     For this cookbook, I made mangoed peppers that were not stuffed with cabbage, but stuffed with green and red tomatoes and onions.

• (bell peppers): The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia

• Gamon, Mogan, among, ang mo, goman, ngoma

Ultimately from Malay mangga, from Malayalam മാങ്ങ (māṅṅa).

• IPA^(key): /manˈɡo/ [mʌŋˈɡɔ]
• Hyphenation: man‧go

mangó f

1. mango (fruit)
2. mango (plant)
3. mango juice

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015), L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[3], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

mango

1. mango

From Spanish mango.

mango (inanimate)

1. (Amecameca) Mango

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.ᵑɡó/

mangó class 6

1. mango (fruit)
2. plural of bango

• bango

Borrowed from English mango, from Portuguese manga, from Malay mangga, from Malayalam മാങ്ങ (māṅṅa).

• (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA^(key): [ˈmaŋɡɔ]
• (Revived Late Cornish) IPA^(key): [ˈmæŋɡɔ]

mango m (plural mangos)

1. mango

Borrowed from English mango, from Portuguese manga, from Malay mangga, from Tamil மாங்காய் (māṅkāy) from மா (mā, “mango species”) + காய் (kāy, “unripe fruit”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈmaŋɡo]

• Audio:

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mango n

1. mango (the fruit of the mango tree)

• “mango”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “mango”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “mango”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

Borrowed from English mango, from Portuguese manga, from Malay mangga, from Tamil மாங்காய் (māṅkāy), from மா (mā, “mango species”) + காய் (kāy, “unripe fruit”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑŋ.ɡoː/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: man‧go

mango m (plural mango's, diminutive mangootje n)

1. (Netherlands, Belgium) mango

   Synonyms: manga, manja

2. (Netherlands, Belgium) mango tree, Mangifera indica

• mangoboom

Ultimately from Malay mangga, from Tamil மாங்காய் (māṅkāy).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmanɡo/

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• Rhymes: -anɡo
• Syllabification: man‧go

mango (accusative singular mangon, plural mangoj, accusative plural mangojn)

1. mango

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑŋːo/, [ˈmɑ̝ŋːo̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑŋːo
• Syllabification^(key): man‧go
• Hyphenation^(key): man‧go

From English mango, from Portuguese manga, from Malay mangga, from Malayalam മാങ്ങ (māṅṅa).

mango

1. mango (fruit)

• “mango”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[4] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023

From French mangue.

mango (dated)

1. synonym of kusimanse (“common kusimanse, Crossarchus obscurus”).

From Old Galician-Portuguese mango (13th century, Alfonso X), from Early Medieval Latin manicus, derived from Latin manus (“hand”). Compare Portuguese mango, Spanish mango.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmaŋɡʊ]

mango m (plural mangos)

1. grip, handgrip, handle

   Synonyms: anga, asa

2. hilt

   Synonym: puño

3. handle, shaft

   Synonym: cabo

• desmangar
• mangar

mango

1. first-person singular present indicative of mangar

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “mango”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “mango”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “mango”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “mango”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “mango”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From French mangue (“mango”).

• IPA^(key): /mãɡo/

mango

1. mango

• IPA^(key): /maˈŋɔʔ/

mangô

1. (derogatory) idiot

mangô

1. stupid, foolish

• The word can sound friendly and affectionate between close people.

• banihut sutil
• lipaton
• manul

Borrowed from English mango, from Portuguese manga, from Malay mangga, from Tamil மாங்காய் (māṅkāy) from மா (mā, “mango species”) + காய் (kāy, “unripe fruit”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈman.ɡo/

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• Rhymes: -anɡo
• Hyphenation: màn‧go

mango m (plural manghi)

1. mango

• Magno, gnoma, magno, magnò

Uncertain; but perhaps an agent noun related to Ancient Greek μαγγανεύω (manganeúō, “enchant, use charms”) and secondarily “trick out, dress artificially”,^[1][2] from the noun μάγγανον (mánganon, “philtre, charm, means for bewitching others”). Buck suggests that Latin mangō is a loanword based (ultimately or otherwise) on the Greek noun.^[3]

Alternatively, derived from manus (“hand”) via an unattested verb such as *manicō or *manigō (“handle, manage; trade, deal?”) (both requiring an unusual syncope of the verb suffix, the former also requiring an unusual voicing of /k/) +‎ -ō (agent noun suffix). This would make it related to manceps (“purchaser; contractor”) and mancipium (“property, slave”), whence perhaps the sense of “slave-trader”. The semantic trajectory would be similar to that of German handeln (“to handle; to trade, deal”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *handuz (“hand”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmaŋ.ɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmaŋ.ɡo]

mangō m (genitive mangōnis); third declension

1. dealer, monger in slaves or wares (to which he tries to give an appearance of greater value by adorning them)

Third-declension noun.

• mangōnicō
• mangōnicus
• mangōnium
• mangōnizō

• →⇒ Proto-West Germanic: *mangārī (see there for further descendants)

• “mango”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mango”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "mango", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “mango”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• "mango", in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Via other European languages, see etymology at English mango.

• IPA^(key): [maŋɡoː]

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mango m (invariable)

1. tree of the genus Mangifera with aromatic, sweet fruits

   Mango ir viens no tropu svarīgākajiem augļu kokiem. ― The mango is one of the most important tropical fruit trees.

2. mango fruit (the fruit of this tree)

   Mango ir tropu koku augļi. ― The mango is a tropical tree fruit.

   Mēs pasūtām mango sulu ar ledu. ― We ordered mango juice with ice.

English mango, from Portuguese manga.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaŋɡo/

mango m (plural mangoyn)

1. mango

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaŋ.ɡɔ/

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• Rhymes: -aŋɡɔ
• Syllabification: man‧go

Borrowed from English mango.

mango n (indeclinable, related adjective mangowy)

2. mango (any plant of the genus Mangifera)

   Synonyms: magnusodrzew, mangowiec

4. mango (fruit of this plant)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mango f

1. vocative singular of manga

• mango in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• mango in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• mango in PWN's encyclopedia

• Hyphenation: man‧go
• Homophone: Mango

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese mango, from Early Medieval Latin manicus, from Latin manus (“hand”).

• manguo (pre-standardization spelling)

mango m (plural mangos)

1. handle (part of an object which is held in the hand)
2. (dated, vulgar) penis [from 18th c.]

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pénis

3. (Brazil, dated, numismatics, informal) A historical unit of currency used in Brazil, originally equivalent to 1000 réis (milreis) or 1 cruzeiro.
4. (Brazil, dated, figurative, informal) buck (any unit of currency)

   Synonym: pila

Borrowed from Spanish mango.

mango m (plural mangos)

1. (Rio Grande do Sul) wooden whip

Variant of manga.

mango m (plural mangos)

1. (regional) synonym of manga (“mango fruit”)

Borrowed from Nyungwe mangu.

mango

1. (Mozambique) quickly; early

Uncertain.

mango m (plural mangos)

1. species of carnivorous mammal from West Africa (clarification of this definition is needed.)
2. species of small fish from Africa (clarification of this definition is needed.)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mango

1. first-person singular present indicative of mangar

• “mango”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “mango”, in Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisboa: Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, 2001–2026
• “mango”, in Dicionário Eletrônico Houaiss [Houaiss Electronic Dictionary] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: UOL, 2004–2026
• “mango”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “mango”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “mango”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from English mango, from Portuguese manga, from Malay mangga, from Tamil மாங்காய் (māṅkāy), from மா (mā, “mango species”) + காய் (kāy, “unripe fruit”).

mango m (plural mango)

1. mango

• IPA^(key): /ˈmanɡo/ [ˈmãŋ.ɡo]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -anɡo
• Syllabification: man‧go

From Early Medieval Latin manicus, derived from Latin manus (“hand”).

mango m (plural mangos)

1. handle (part of an object which is held in the hand)
   • 2011, Estándar de milady: barbero profesional, 5th edition, Milady, page 353:

     Sostenga el mango de la navaja entre los dedos anular y meñique, […]

     Hold the razor’s handle between your ring finger and little finger, […]

• asa
• manija
• manivela

Borrowed from English mango, from Portuguese manga, from Malay mangga, from Tamil மாங்காய் (māṅkāy) from மா (mā, “mango species”) + காய் (kāy, “unripe fruit”).

mango m (plural mangos)

1. mango (fruit and tree)
2. (Bolivia) alternative form of mangos
   • 1930, “Yira, Yira”, Enrique Santos Discépolo (lyrics), performed by Carlos Gardel:

     Buscando ese mango / Que te haga morfar...

     Looking for that money / That lets you eat...

• → Tetelcingo Nahuatl: mönco
• → Ye'kwana: manku
• → K'iche': mank

mango

1. first-person singular present indicative of mangar

• “mango”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• mango on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es

• Audio (Kenya):

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mango class IX (plural mango class X)

1. solid

From Portuguese manga, from Malay mangga, from Tamil மாங்காய் (māṅkāy).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaŋɡʊ/
• Rhymes: -aŋɡʊ

mango c

1. mango (tree)

   Synonym: mangoträd

2. mango (fruit)

• mango in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• mango in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• mango in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• mogna

• IPA^(key): [ˈma.ŋo]

mango

1. (stative) to be sharp

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001), A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Borrowed from English mango, from Portuguese manga, from Malayalam മാങ്ങ (māṅṅa).

• IPA^(key): /manˈɡo/

mango (definite accusative mangoyu, plural mangolar)

1. synonym of Hint kirazı (“mango”)

• “mango”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “mango”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “mango”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 3, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3050

From English mango.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaŋɡɔ/

mango m (plural mangos)

1. mango