mangup

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish منكوب (menkûb, menkûp), from Arabic مَنْكُوب (mankūb, “afflicted, troubled, injured”), from the root ن ك ب (n k b), akin to نَكْبَة (nakba).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mǎnɡup/
• Hyphenation: man‧gup

Noun

màngup m (Cyrillic spelling ма̀нгуп)

1. idler, loafer
2. mischievous child

Declension

Declension of mangup

	singular	plural
nominative	màngup	mangupi
genitive	màngupa	mȁngūpā
dative	mangupu	mangupima
accusative	mangupa	mangupe
vocative	mangupe	mangupi
locative	mangupu	mangupima
instrumental	mangupom	mangupima

References

• “mangup”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
• Škaljić, Abdulah (1966) Turcizmi u srpskohrvatskom jeziku, Sarajevo: Svjetlost, page 445