mango
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæŋɡəʊ/
ipa: /ˈmæŋɡoʊ/
ipa: [ˈmeɪŋɡoʊ]
rhymes: -æŋɡəʊ
Forms: form: mangoes
form: mangos
form: manga
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.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 1980, Bruce Chatwin, The Viceroy of Ouidah, page 146:
glosses: A tropical Asian fruit tree, Mangifera indica.
examples: text: And I have one [bezoar] form'd round the Stone of that great Plum, which comes pickled from thence, and is called Mango.
ref: 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
glosses: The fruit of the mango tree.
examples: text: In Pennsylvania and western Maryland, mangoes were generally made with green bell peppers.
ref: 2004, Elizabeth E. Lea, William Woys Weaver, A Quaker Woman's Cookbook: The Domestic Cookery of Elizabeth Ellicott Lea, page 335:
glosses: A pickled vegetable or fruit with a spicy stuffing; a vegetable or fruit which has been mangoed.
examples: text: Mango peppers by the dozen, if owned by the careful housewife, would gladden the appetite or disposition of any epicure or scold.
ref: 1879, Pennsylvania State Board of Agriculture, Agriculture of Pennsylvania, page 222:
text: Best mango peppers
ref: 1896, Ohio State Board of Agriculture, Annual Report, page 154:
text: Cut tops from mangoes; remove seeds.
ref: 1943 August 9, Mary Adgate, “Stuffed Mangoes”, in The Lima News, Lima, Ohio, page 5:
text: 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.
ref: 2000, Allan A. Metcalf, How We Talk: American Regional English Today, page 41:
qualifier: chiefly southern Midland US
glosses: A green bell pepper suitable for pickling.
glosses: A type of muskmelon, Cucumis melo.
glosses: Any of various hummingbirds of the genus Anthracothorax.
glosses: A yellow-orange color, like that of mango flesh.
glosses: The breasts.
Hypernyms: sense: tropical fruit tree Mangifera indica
word: fruit tree
sense: tropical fruit tree Mangifera indica
word: tree
sense: fruit
word: fruit
sense: fruit
word: stone fruit
sense: fruit
word: tropical fruit
Derived terms: taxonomic: Irvingia gabonensis
word: African mango
word: Alphonso mango
word: apple mango
word: bandango
taxonomic: Anthracothorax nigricollis
word: black-throated mango
taxonomic: Irvingia gabonensis
word: bush mango
word: hapus mango
word: hillbilly mango
word: mangoade
word: mango bird
word: mango-bird
word: mangoey
word: mango fish
taxonomic: Cordylobia anthropophaga
word: mango fly
word: mango ginger
word: mangolike
word: mango melon
word: Mango Mussolini
word: mangonada
word: mangophile
word: mango pudding
word: mangorita
word: mango roll
word: mango shower
word: mango squash
word: mango tilapia
word: mangotini
word: mangotoxin
word: mango trick
word: mango weevil
taxonomic: Cordylobia anthropophaga
word: mango worm
word: Milton mango
taxonomic: Irvingia gabonensis
word: wild mango