مانجه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Italian mangia, the second person singular imperative of mangiare (“to eat”).

Noun

مانجه • (manca)

1. food, any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms

   Synonyms: قوت (kut), یی (yeyi), ییه‌جك (yeyecek)

2. meal, repast, food that is eaten, usually at a specific time

Descendants

• Turkish: manca
• → Armenian: մանճա (manča)
• → Macedonian: манџа (mandža)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “manca1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3045
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “مانجه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎ (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1095
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Cibus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 178
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “مانجه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 4253
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “مانجه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1664