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manjar
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Galician
Noun
manjar f (plural manjares, reintegrationist norm)
- reintegrationist spelling of manxar
Verb
manjar (first-person singular present manjo, first-person singular preterite manjei, past participle manjado, reintegrationist norm)
Conjugation
1Less recommended.
References
- “manjar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
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Ido
Etymology
From Esperanto manĝi, from French manger, Italian mangiare, ultimately from Latin manducāre.
Pronunciation
Verb
manjar (present tense manjas, past tense manjis, future tense manjos, imperative manjez, conditional manjus)
- (transitive) to eat
- Ni manjos kande la manjajo finigos.
- We eat when the food is done.
- (figuratively) to eat away; consume
Conjugation
Derived terms
- manjajo (“something eaten or to be eaten; food, victuals”)
- manjegero (“glutton”)
- manjetar (“to nibble, to eat little”)
- manjeyo, manjochambro (“eating place, dining chamber, refectory”)
- manjilaro (“eating utensils”)
- manjo, manjado (“a meal, eating”)
- manjosako (“nosebag (for horses)”)
- manjotrogo (“manger, crib, eating tough”)
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Lombard
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin mandicāre, from Latin manducāre.
Pronunciation
Verb
manjar
- (Scriver Lombard, transitive, intransitive) to eat
Conjugation
This entry needs an inflection-table template.
Noun
manjar m (invariable)
- (usually uncountable) food
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Occitan
Alternative forms
- minjar (Gascon dialect)
Etymology
From Old Occitan manjar, from Vulgar Latin mandicāre from Latin manducāre.
Pronunciation
Verb
manjar
- (transitive, intransitive) to eat
Conjugation
Noun
manjar m (plural manjars)
Further reading
- Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2024, page 418.
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Old Occitan
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin mandicāre, from Latin manducāre.
Verb
manjar
- to eat
Descendants
- Occitan: manjar
References
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “manducare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 6/1: Mabile–Mephitis, page 160
Portuguese
Etymology 1
Borrowed from French manger, Old French mengier, or Italian mangiare, from Vulgar Latin mandicāre, Latin manducāre.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: man‧jar
Verb
manjar (first-person singular present manjo, first-person singular preterite manjei, past participle manjado) (transitive, intransitive)
- to eat
- (informal) to know
- Ela manja de matemática. ― She knows mathematics quite well.
- (informal) to understand
Conjugation
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Etymology 2
Nominalization of Etymology 1.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Hyphenation: man‧jar
Noun
manjar m (plural manjares)
- any food or dish, chiefly a well-prepared or sophisticated one
- (Brazil) a short name for a number of desserts of Brazilian origin
- Hyponyms: manjar-branco, manjar dos anjos, manjar-imperial
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Spanish
Etymology
From a verb that originally meant "to eat" (preserved in Portuguese), borrowed from Old Catalan or Occitan or Old Occitan menjar, from Vulgar Latin mandicāre, Latin manducāre. Doublet of manducar and mangar.
Pronunciation
Noun
manjar m (plural manjares)
- delicacy, food, sustenance (especially delicious food, or one of the types of foods listed below)
- Synonym: comida
- 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 7:
- Ahí se reúnen con los Brujos muertos, que conservan la misma figura que tuvieron en vida; celebran con ellos grandes y escandalosas orgías en que se sirven los manjares y vinos más exquisitos en vajillas de oro y plata.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- sustenance (something which invigorates mind or body)
- Synonym: sostenimiento
- (Chile) dulce de leche (caramel spread)
- (obsolete) suit (one of the four types of cards in a deck)
- Synonym: palo
Derived terms
Further reading
- “manjar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
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