mangup

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Serbo-Croatian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

màngup m (Cyrillic spelling ма̀нгуп)

  1. idler, loafer
  2. mischievous child

Declension[edit]

References[edit]

  • mangup” in Hrvatski jezični portal
  • Škaljić, Abdulah (1966) Turcizmi u srpskohrvatskom jeziku, Sarajevo: Svjetlost, page 445