mango
/ˈmæŋɡəʉ̯/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.56 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "And I have one [bezoar] form'd round the Stone of that great Plum, which comes pickled from thence, and is called Mango."
- "In Pennsylvania and western Maryland, mangoes were generally made with green bell peppers."
- "Mango peppers by the dozen, if owned by the careful housewife, would gladden the appetite or disposition of any epicure or scold."
- "Best mango peppers"
- "Cut tops from mangoes; remove seeds."
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.
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈmæŋɡəʉ̯/
- British English: /ˈmæŋɡəʊ/
Usage
- Countable
- Uncountable
- American usage
- Dated
- Slang
- Transitive verb
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Law.
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
African mango
Alphonso mango
apple mango
black-throated mango
bush mango
Champagne mango
hapus mango
hillbilly mango