Masculine
manjar
Meaning
- (masculine) delicacy, food, sustenance (especially delicious food, or one of the types of foods listed below)
- (masculine) sustenance (something which invigorates mind or body)
- (Chile, masculine) dulce de leche (caramel spread)
- (masculine, obsolete) suit (one of the four types of cards in a deck)
Synonyms
Translations
Speise
prelibatezza
menjar
déliceFrequency
Hyphenated as
man‧jar
Pronounced as (IPA)
/manˈxaɾ/
Etymology
In summary
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.
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