mancar

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mancar

1. to pierce
2. to hurt, injure

From manc (“one-handed”) or from Italian mancare.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /məŋˈka/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /maŋˈkaɾ/

mancar (first-person singular present manco, past participle mancat)

1. (intransitive) (followed by preposition de) to be lacking
2. (intransitive) (followed by preposition a) to be false to, to fail, to go back on
3. (intransitive) to be missing, to be absent
4. (transitive) to miss, to fail

• mancada

• “mancar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Attested since circa 1300. From Latin manco (“lame; maimed”).

• IPA^(key): [maŋˈkaɾ]

mancar (first-person singular present manco, first-person singular preterite manquei, past participle mancado)

1. to hurt, injure
   • 1370, R. Lorenzo (ed.), Crónica troiana. A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 343:

     os hũus chagaua, et os outros fería, et os outros derribaua, et aos outros atrauesando, de tal gisa que os mãcaua todos moy mal, et mataua moytos deles

     some he wounded, another ones he hit, and others he knocked down, and the others piercing, so that he injured all very badly, and killed many of them

2. (intransitive) to miss
3. (intransitive) to be deprived of

• Note: manc- are changed to manqu- before front vowels (e).

• mancadela
• mancadura
• manqueira

• “mancar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “mãca” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “mancar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “mancar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “mancar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From manco (“lame”) +‎ -ar.

mancar (first-person singular present manco, first-person singular preterite manquei, past participle mancado)

1. (intransitive) to limp (to walk lamely, as if favouring one leg)

   Synonym: coxear

2. (rare, transitive) to lame (to cause someone to be lame)

   Synonym: deixar manco

3. (Brazil, slang, takes a reflexive pronoun) to make oneself scarce; to leave

   Synonyms: vazar, sumir

4. (dated slang, intransitive) to miss (to fail to attend)

   Synonym: faltar

• mancada

• “mancar” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

• IPA^(key): /manˈkaɾ/ [mãŋˈkaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: man‧car

mancar (first-person singular present manco, first-person singular preterite manqué, past participle mancado)

1. to injure; maim
2. (intransitive) to lack, to be lacking
3. (intransitive) to miss, to be missing

• “mancar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

mancar

1. (transitive, but normally impersonal) to lack; to be lacking or missing

• Venetian conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.