manger

From Middle English manger, from Old French mangeoire, menjoere, from mangier (“to eat”) (modern French manger).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmeɪn.d͡ʒə(ɹ)/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmeɪn.d͡ʒɚ/
• Rhymes: -eɪndʒə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: man‧ger

manger (plural mangers)

1. A trough in a stable or barn for animals to eat from.
   • 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “[The Fables of Æsop, &c.] Fab[le] LXXVI. A Dog in a Manger.”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC, page 75:

     A Churliſh Envious Curr vvas gotten into a Manger, and there lay Growling and Snarling to keep the Horſes from their Provender. The Dog Eat None himſelf, and yet rather Ventur'd the Starving his Own Carcaſe then he would ſuffer any thing elfe to be the Better for't.

   • 1646 (indicated as 1645), John Milton, “On the Morning of Christs Nativity”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], →OCLC, page 2:

     It was the Winter wilde.
     While the Heav’n-born-childe,
     All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies:
     Nature in aw to him
     Had doff't her gawdy trim,
     With her great Maſter ſo to ſympathize:
     It was no ſeaſon then for her
     To wanton with the Sun her luſty Paramour.

2. A section of a bow of a ship partitioned from the hawsehole to keep water out.
   • 1838, Edward Howard, Frederick Marryat, chapter XLIII, in Rattlin, the Reefer:

     Though I was close by I could not fully comprehend the whole manœuvre. The captain was head and shoulders immersed in the filthy trough, which, uncleaned, was taken from the manger, that part of the main deck directly under the forecastle and filled with salt water.

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• mange

• Engram, German, Magner, engram, german, ragmen

Inherited from Middle French manger, from Old French mengier, from Late Latin manducāre (“chew, devour”).

See cognates : Italian mangiare, Norman maungier and mougier, Gallo mangier, Picard minger, Bourguignon maingé, Champenois mainger, Franco-Provençal mengiér, Occitan manjar, Corsican manghjà, Romanian mânca.

• IPA^(key): /mɑ̃.ʒe/

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• (Paris) IPA^(key): [mɑ̃ː.ʒe]

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• Homophones: mangeai, mangé, mangée, mangées, mangés, mangez
• Hyphenation: man‧ger

manger

1. (transitive) to eat

   Synonyms: dévorer, consommer, avaler, engloutir, s'empiffrer, se bâfrer, ingurgiter, grignoter, festoyer, se goinfrer, becqueter, déguster, se sustenter, s'alimenter, ingérer

   J'ai mangé de la viande à midi.

   I ate some meat for lunch.

2. (intransitive) to eat

   Synonym: casser la croûte

   Il trouvait étrange que je ne mangeasse rien.

   He found it strange that I wouldn't eat anything.

   Manger au restaurant.

   To eat in a restaurant.

This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written mange- before endings that begin with -a- or -o- (to indicate that the -g- is a "soft" /ʒ/ and not a "hard" /ɡ/). This spelling change occurs in all verbs in -ger, such as neiger and ranger.

manger m (plural mangers)

1. food, foodstuff

   Synonyms: mange m, nourriture f, (slang) bouffe f

   Le manger est bon dans cette boulangerie.

   Food is good in this bakery

• “manger”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• magner
• gramen

• mangeour, mangier, manjour, manjure, maunger, mawnger, mawnjowre

From Old French mangeoire, from manger (“to eat”).

• IPA^(key): /maːnˈdʒuːr/, /ˈmaːndʒər/, /mau̯n-/

manger (plural mangers)

1. manger
2. stall (animal dwelling)

• mangerie

• English: manger
• Scots: manger

• “maunǧer, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Old French mengier.

manger

1. to eat (consume food)

• As parler except an extra e is inserted after the final g before a and o.
• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

• French: manger (see there for further descendants)

manger m (plural mangers)

1. food (comestible solids)

• boire, boyre

manger

1. (Anglo-Norman) alternative form of mengier

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. In the present tense an extra supporting e is needed in the first-person singular indicative and throughout the singular subjunctive, and the third-person singular subjunctive ending -t is lost. In addition, g becomes j before an a or an o to keep the /dʒ/ sound intact. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• mangiar (Rumantsch Grischun, Vallader)

Borrowed from Old French mangier, from Latin mandūcō, manducāre.

manger

1. (Puter) to eat

In standardised Rumantsch Grischun, mangiar is used for people eating and magliar for animals eating. When applied to people magliar means eating badly (eating like a pig). Some of the Romansch lects do not make this distinction (especially Sursilvan) and magliar is the usual term for human beings.

• maglier