manjar

manjar f (plural manjares, reintegrationist norm)

1. reintegrationist spelling of manxar

manjar (first-person singular present manjo, first-person singular preterite manjei, past participle manjado, reintegrationist norm)

1. to eat, to chew food
2. to know

• “manjar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

From Esperanto manĝi, from French manger, Italian mangiare, ultimately from Latin manducāre, present active infinitive of manducō.

• IPA^(key): /manˈʒaɾ/, /manˈd͡ʒaɾ/

manjar (present tense manjas, past tense manjis, future tense manjos, imperative manjez, conditional manjus)

1. (transitive) to eat

   Ni manjos kande la manjajo finigos.

   We eat when the food is done.

2. (figuratively) to eat away; consume

• mangià, maià, magnà (traditional orthographies)

From Vulgar Latin mandicāre, from Latin manducāre, present active infinitive of manducō.

• IPA^(key): /manˈd͡ʒa/
  • (Western) IPA^(key): [mã(n)ˈd͡ʒa]
  • (Eastern) IPA^(key): [manˈza]
  • (Northern) IPA^(key): [manˈʒa]
• IPA^(key): /mãˈja/
  • (Western) IPA^(key): [mãˈja], [maˈja]
  • (Eastern) IPA^(key): [maˈja]
• IPA^(key): /maˈɲa/
  • (Western) IPA^(key): [maˈɲa], [mãˈɲa]
• Rhymes: -a

manjar

1. (Scriver Lombard, transitive, intransitive) to eat

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manjar m (invariable)

1. (usually uncountable) food

• minjar (Gascon dialect)

From Old Occitan manjar, from Vulgar Latin mandicāre from Latin manducāre, present active infinitive of manducō.

• IPA^(key): /manˈd͡ʒa/
• Rhymes: -a

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• Hyphenation: man‧jar

manjar

1. (transitive, intransitive) to eat

manjar m (plural manjars)

1. food

   Synonym: noiridura

• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2024, page 418.

• manchar, mangar, manhar, mengar

From Vulgar Latin mandicāre, from Latin manducāre, present active infinitive of manducō.

manjar

1. to eat

• Occitan: manjar

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “manducare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 6/1: Mabile–Mephitis, page 160

Borrowed from French manger, Old French mengier, or Italian mangiare, from Vulgar Latin mandicāre, Latin manducāre.

• Hyphenation: man‧jar

manjar (first-person singular present manjo, first-person singular preterite manjei, past participle manjado) (transitive, intransitive)

1. to eat
2. (informal) to know

   Ela manja de matemática. ― She knows mathematics quite well.

3. (informal) to understand

Nominalization of Etymology 1.

• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Hyphenation: man‧jar

manjar m (plural manjares)

1. any food or dish, chiefly a well-prepared or sophisticated one
2. (Brazil) a short name for a number of desserts of Brazilian origin

   Hyponyms: manjar-branco, manjar-dos-anjos, manjar-imperial

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.

• IPA^(key): /manˈxaɾ/ [mãŋˈxaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: man‧jar

manjar m (plural manjares)

1. 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.

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2. sustenance (something which invigorates mind or body)

   Synonym: sostenimiento

3. (Chile) dulce de leche (caramel spread)

   Synonyms: natillas (Spain), arequipe (Colombia, Venezuela), leche poleada

4. (obsolete) suit (one of the four types of cards in a deck)

   Synonym: palo

• “manjar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28