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.

• mandible
• 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, 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 pour le souper.

   I ate some meat for dinner.

2. (intransitive) to eat

   Synonym: casser la croûte

   C’est bizarre que je ne mange rien.

   It's strange that I don'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

   Cette boulangérie a du manger délicat.

   This bakery has elegant food

• “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