manga

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmæŋɡə/, /ˈmɑːŋɡə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑŋɡə/, /ˈmæŋɡə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɑŋɡə, -æŋɡə
• Hyphenation: man‧ga

Borrowed from Japanese 漫画(まんが) (manga), from Middle Chinese 漫 (MC manH, “free, unrestrained”) + 畫 (MC hweaH|hweak, “drawing”). Compare Mandarin 漫畫／漫画 (mànhuà), Korean 만화 (漫畵／漫畫, manhwa). After an 1814 book by Katsushika Hokusai. Doublet of manhua and manhwa.

manga (countable and uncountable, plural manga or mangas)

2. (countable, comics) A comic originating in Japan.

   Coordinate terms: manhwa, manhua

   • 2001, Gilles Poitras, “What makes anime unique”, in Anime Essentials: Every Thing a Fan Needs to Know, page 63:

     English speakers are quick to notice the at times incorrect use of English in anime and manga. Many English words are customarily used in standard Japanese speech, and sometimes they are pronounced and employed in a manner quite different from their native use.

   • 2007, Yukako Sunaoshi, “Who reads comics? Manga readership among first-generation Asian immigrants in New Zealand”, in Popular Culture, Globalization and Japan, page 94:

     Manga (Japanese comics) are everywhere. Even here in Auckland. One can find various titles in their original versions as well as in Chinese, Korean and English translations.

   • 2012, Jason Thompson, “Introduction”, in Manga: The Complete Guide, page 46:

     Manga-influenced comics by Western authors are frequently sold alongside manga, although in most bookstores the decision is primarily a matter of format and packaging (i.e., whether the book is printed in the compact manga size or the traditionally larger American comic book format).

3. (uncountable) An artistic style heavily used in, and associated with, Japanese comics, and that has also been adopted by a comparatively low number of comics from other countries.
   • 2019 July 28, Emiko Jozuka, “Japanese anime: From ‘Disney of the East’ to a global industry worth billions”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Touching on themes as disparate as sex, death, science fiction and romance, manga and anime catered to all ages and tastes. Commercial hits like “Pokémon” and “Dragon Ball Z,” meanwhile, projected a new image of Japan to the world.

4. (countable, loosely, sometimes proscribed) Any comic in such a style, regardless of the country of origin.

   Lately I've been reading a Brazilian manga.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:manga.

• mangwa (obsolete)

• doujinshi (“independent or fan-produced manga”)

• mangaka

• → Hindi: मांगा (māṅgā), माँगा (māṅgā), मैंगा (maiṅgā)

• anime (“Japanese animation”)

• manga on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From Spanish manga (“sleeve”). Doublet of manche.

manga (plural mangas)

1. (Christianity) A covering for a crucifix.

manga (plural mangas)

1. Obsolete form of mango (“the fruit”).

Short for mangalitsa.

manga (plural mangas)

1. A mangalitsa pig.

• Magan, magna

From Latin manica.

manga f (plural mangues)

1. sleeve

From Japanese 漫画(まんが) (manga), after an 1814 book by Katsushika Hokusai.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈmaŋ.ɡə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈmaŋ.ɡa]

manga m (plural mangues)

2. (comics) manga (comic originating in Japan)

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.ᵑɡa/

-manga (infinitive kumánga)

1. to build
2. to bind
3. to tie
4. to button

• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative: -mangira
  • Causative: -mangitsa
  • Conversive: -masula
  • Negative: -samanga
  • Passive: -mangidwa
  • Reduplicative: -mangamanga
  • Repetitive: -manganso
  • Stative: -mangika

Borrowed from Japanese 漫画(まんが) (manga).

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɑŋɡ̊a]

manga

2. (countable, comics) manga (comic originating in Japan)

   De har vist læst alt for mange mangaer. ― I believe they have read far too many mangas.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑŋ.ɡaː/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: man‧ga

From Japanese 漫画(まんが) (manga), after an 1814 book by Katsushika Hokusai.

manga m (plural manga's, diminutive mangaatje n)

2. (comics) manga

Borrowed from Malay mangga.

manga m (plural manga's)

1. (dated, Indonesia) mango

   Synonyms: mango, manja

2. (dated, Indonesia) mango tree, Mangifera indica

• mangaboom

Borrowed from Japanese 漫画(まんが) (manga).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑŋːɑ/, [ˈmɑ̝ŋːɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑŋːɑ
• Syllabification^(key): man‧ga
• Hyphenation^(key): man‧ga

manga

2. (comics) manga (comic originating in Japan)

• “manga”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

• magna

Borrowed from Japanese 漫画(まんが) (manga). Doublet of manhwa.

• IPA^(key): /mɑ̃.ɡa/

• Audio:

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• Homophone: mangas

manga m (plural mangas)

2. (comics) manga (comic originating in Japan)

   Hypernym: bande dessinée

   Coordinate terms: manhwa, manhua

   • 2005 November 1, “Duck Action : 5 mangas inmangables ! [Duck Action: 5 Manga You Can’t Miss!]”, in Picsou Magazine (non-fiction), Disney Hachette Presse, page 27:

     Hiromu Arakawa est une jeune mangaka débutante quand elle envoie son premier projet chez un éditeur. L’histoire courte deviendra FullMetal Alchemist, un des mangas les plus vendus au Japon : 12 millions d’exemplaires !

     Hiromu Arakawa was a young mangaka debuting when she sent her first project to a publisher. That short story became FullMetal Alchemist, one of the best-selling manga in Japan: 12 million copies!

   • 2005 November 1, “Duck Action : 5 mangas inmangables ! [Duck Action: 5 Manga You Can’t Miss!]”, in Picsou Magazine (non-fiction), Disney Hachette Presse, page 27:

     Osamu Tezuka est le plus grand dessinateur de manga. De 1947 à 1989, il dessine 150000 pages et crée d’innombrable séries : Astro Boy, le roi Léo, Metropolis, BlackJack, Les trois Adolf, Ayako, Phénix […]

     Osamu Tezuka was the greatest manga artist. From 1947 to 1989, he drew 150,000 pages and created countless series: Astro Boy, Kimba the White Lion, Metropolis, Black Jack, Message to Adolf, Ayako, Phoenix…

• mangaka

From Old Galician-Portuguese manga (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin manica.

manga f (plural mangas)

1. sleeve
2. (nautical) beam

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

manga f (plural mangas)

1. mango (fruit)

   Botoulle manga á ensalada ― She added some mango to her salad.

Ultimately from Japanese 漫画(まんが) (manga).

manga m (plural mangas)

2. (comics) manga (comic originating in Japan)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

manga

1. inflection of mangar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “manga”, 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), “manga”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “manga”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• IPA^(key): /ma.ŋa/

manga

1. (Yuwaalaraay) ear

   Synonym: bina

• (2003) Gamilaraay Yuwaalaraay Yuwaalayaay Dictionary

manga

1. many

• IPA^(key): /maˈŋa/ [mɐˈŋa]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: ma‧nga

manga (Hanunoo spelling ᜫᜥ)

1. alternative form of mga

manga (Hanunoo spelling ᜫᜥ)

1. alternative form of mga

• Conklin, Harold C. (1953), Hanunóo-English Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics), volume 9, London, England: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 189

From Japanese 漫画(まんが) (manga), from Middle Chinese 漫 (MC manH, “free, unrestrained”) + 畫 (MC hweaH|hweak, “drawing”). Doublet of manhua and manhwa.

• IPA^(key): (standard) /ˈman.ɡa/
• IPA^(key): (common) /ˈma.ŋa/
• Hyphenation: man‧ga

manga

2. (comics) manga (comic originating in Japan)

   Coordinate terms: manhua, manhwa

• anime (“Japanese animation”)

From Japanese 漫画(まんが) (manga).

• IPA^(key): /ˈman.ɡa/^[1]
• Rhymes: -anɡa
• Hyphenation: màn‧ga

manga m (invariable)

2. (comics) manga (comic originating in Japan)

• magna

manga

1. Rōmaji transcription of まんが
2. Rōmaji transcription of マンガ

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Cardinal: manga

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *l-ŋaʔ. Cognate with Burmese ငါး (nga:), Nuosu ꉬ (nge), Sikkimese ང (nga), Eastern Min 五 (ngô, ngū).

manga

1. five

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaŋa/ [ˈmaː.ŋʌ]
• Rhymes: -aŋa
• Syllabification: ma‧nga

mánga

1. state of being sad, sorrowful
2. act of getting

• Morice Vanoverbergh (1933), “mánga”, in A Dictionary of Lepanto Igorot or Kankanay. As it is spoken at Bauco (Linguistische Anthropos-Bibliothek; XII)‎^[3], Mödling bei Wien, St. Gabriel, Österreich: Verlag der Internationalen Zeitschrift „Anthropos“, →OCLC, page 303

Borrowed from Japanese 漫画(まんが) (manga).

• (Johor-Riau) IPA^(key): /ˈmaŋɡa/ [ˈmaŋ.ɡa] (Japanese-based)

  • Audio (Malaysia):

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  • Rhymes: -aŋɡa, -a
• (Johor-Riau) IPA^(key): /ˈmaŋɡə/ [ˈmaŋ.ɡə], /ˈmaŋə/ [ˈma.ŋə] (rare)
  • Rhymes: -aŋɡə, -aŋə
• (Baku) IPA^(key): /ˈmaŋa/ [ˈma.ŋa]

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  • Rhymes: -aŋa, -a
• Hyphenation: ma‧nga

manga (Jawi spelling ماڠا, plural manga-manga)

2. (comics) manga (comic originating in Japan)

   Hyponym: komik

From Proto-Polynesian *maŋa (“branch, fork”), from Proto-Austronesian.

manga

1. branch
2. stream, creek
3. faculty (of a university), unit (of a hospital)
4. act (of a play)

• “manga” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Borrowed from Portuguese manga.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmãɡa/
  • (Rio Negro, Middle Amazon) IPA^(key): [ˈmã.ɡɐ]
  • (Solimões) IPA^(key): [ˈmã.ᵑɡɐ]
• Rhymes: -ãɡa

manga (plural manga-itá)

1. mango (fruit of the mango tree)

• Avila, Marcel Twardowsky (2021), “manga”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 446

manga

1. imperfective of a (“to eat”)

Inherited from Latin manica, from manus, from Proto-Italic *manus, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₂-.

manga f (plural mangas)

1. (clothing) sleeve (part of a garment that covers the arm)
   • 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 399:

     Et elle, quando esto oyu, empero que estaua muy mal ferido de morte, alynpou a cara cõna manga da loriga, et tomou a espada cõ ãbaslas mãos, coydandolle dar per çima da cabeça, et errouo et deulle hũu grã golpe eno caualo, atã grãde que lle cortou os narizes mesturado cõnas redeas.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• Fala: manga
• Galician: manga
• Portuguese: manga

• Manuel Ferreiro (2014–2025), “manga”, in Universo Cantigas. Edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa (in Galician), A Coruña: University of A Coruña, →ISSN
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022), “manga”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018), “manga”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antônio Geraldo da Cunha (2020–2025), “manga”, in Vocabulário histórico-cronológico do Português Medieval (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa

Borrowed from Old Saxon mangōn, from Proto-West Germanic *mangōn.

manga

1. to barter, chaffer

• mang n
• mangari m

• Icelandic: manga
• Swedish: många

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “manga”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

Borrowed from Japanese 漫画(まんが) (manga).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaŋ.ɡa/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -aŋɡa
• Syllabification: man‧ga

manga f

1. (comics) manga (comic originating in Japan)

   Hypernym: komiks

   Coordinate term: anime

• manga in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• manga in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃ɡɐ
• Hyphenation: man‧ga

From Old Galician-Portuguese manga, from Latin manica. Cognate with Spanish manga, French manche. Doublet of Mancha.

manga f (plural mangas)

1. sleeve
2. pipe

Borrowed from either Malay mangga or Malayalam മാങ്ങ (māṅṅa).

manga f (plural mangas)

1. mango (fruit)
2. mango (tree)

   Synonym: mangueira

• → Araweté: mãka
• → English: mango, manga (obsolete) (see there for further descendants)
• → Galician: manga
• → Guajajára: màg
• → Hunsrik: Manga
• → Middle French: manga
  • French: mangue
• → Nheengatu: manga
• → Spanish: manga

Borrowed from Japanese 漫画(まんが) (manga).

manga m or f (plural mangas)

2. (chiefly Portugal) (comics) manga (comic made in Japanese)

   Synonym: (chiefly Brazil) mangá

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

manga

1. inflection of mangar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “manga”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “manga”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

• IPA^(key): /ˈmanɡa/ [ˈmãŋ.ɡa]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -anɡa
• Syllabification: man‧ga

Inherited from Latin manica, cognate with Portuguese manga, French manche.

manga f (plural mangas)

1. sleeve
2. (tennis) set

   Synonyms: set, parcial

Borrowed from Japanese 漫画(まんが) (manga).

manga m (plural mangas)

2. (comics) manga (comic originating in Japan)
   • 2021 April 26, John Malathronas, “¿Cuáles son los idiomas más fáciles (y difíciles) de aprender para los hablantes nativos de inglés?”, in CNN en Español‎^[4]:

     Japón, un país que ha enriquecido al mundo con el sushi, el karaoke y el manga, tiene muchos devotos, especialmente entre los fanáticos de los videojuegos y los geeks.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

manga

1. inflection of mangar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Borrowed from Portuguese manga.

manga f (plural mangas)

1. mango tree
2. a type of mango (fruit)

• “manga”, 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

Borrowed from Japanese 漫画(まんが) (manga).

• IPA^(key): /maŋ.ɡa/

manga c

2. (countable, uncountable, comics) manga (comic originating in Japan)
3. (dated) hentai

   Synonym: hentai

4. (dated) anime

   Synonym: anime

• anime

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

• Magna

From Proto-Central Philippine *maŋa, from Proto-Philippine *maŋa, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *maŋa.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /maˈŋa/ [mɐˈŋa]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: ma‧nga

mangá (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜅ)

1. archaic spelling of mga

• magna, mag- -an, maang

From Italian banco (bench, sitting row, benches where rowers would sit in ships), originally a naval term, later becoming a group or assembly of sailors (often with the additional meaning of a mess or meal assembly), started being used by the army by 20th century latest.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /mɑŋ.ɡɑ/

manga (definite accusative mangayı, plural mangalar)

1. (military) A squad of 10 soldiers.
2. (military) Sleeping quarters for sailors in warships.
3. (figurative) A group of people, crowd.

Borrowed from Japanese 漫画(まんが) (manga).

• IPA^(key): /mɑŋ.ɡɑ/

manga (definite accusative mangayı, plural mangalar)

2. (comics) manga (comic originating in Japan)

• “manga”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu

Borrowed from Japanese 漫画(まんが) (manga), from Middle Chinese 漫 (MC manH, “free, unrestrained”) + 畫 (MC hweaH|hweak, “drawing”). Compare Mandarin 漫畫／漫画 (mànhuà), Korean 만화 (漫畵／漫畫, manhwa).

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [maːn˧˧ ɣaː˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [maːŋ˧˧ ɣaː˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [maːŋ˧˧ ɣaː˧˧]
• Phonetic spelling: man ga

manga

1. manga

From man +‎ -ga.

• Hyphenation: man‧ga

manga f (male equivalent ga)

1. cow