mangas

See also: mangás, manĝas, and manga's

English

Etymology 1

From Greek μάγκας (mágkas).

Noun

mangas (plural manges)

1. (now historical) A type of cocky, working-class man in early twentieth-century Greece, associated with violent behaviour, alcohol and hashish, and celebrated in various folk songs.
   • 2016, Jane K Cowan, Dance and the Body Politic in Northern Greece, page 174:

     Impoverished, disenfranchised, the mangas lived by petty crime and occasional labor.

   • 2019, Roderick Beaton, Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation, Penguin, published 2020, page 172:

     The mangas was expected to cock a snook at authority, to be quick with a knife and ruthless in avenging insult.

Etymology 2

Plural forms.

Noun

mangas

1. plural of manga
   • 2006, Chi Hang Li, Chris Patmore, Hayden Scott Baron, Complete Guide to Anime Techniques:

     Many characters in long-running mangas grow up as their audiences do: they get married, raise children, and so on.

Anagrams

• Gasman, Magans, gasman

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɑ̃.ɡa/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Homophone: manga

Noun

mangas m

1. plural of manga

Galician

Noun

mangas f pl

1. plural of manga

Verb

mangas

1. second-person singular present indicative of mangar

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmɐ̃.ɡɐs/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmɐ̃.ɡɐs/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈmɐ̃.ɡɐʃ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmɐ̃.ɡas/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmɐ̃.ɡɐʃ/

Noun

mangas f pl

1. plural of manga

Noun

mangas m pl or f pl

1. plural of manga

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmanɡas/ [ˈmãŋ.ɡas]
• Rhymes: -anɡas
• Syllabification: man‧gas

Noun

mangas f pl

1. plural of manga

Verb

mangas

1. second-person singular present indicative of mangar

Swedish

Noun

mangas

1. indefinite genitive singular of manga