Etymology: < Portuguese manga (early 16th cent.), probably < Malayalam māṅṅa . Compare Italian †manga (1510: see below), mango , Middle French manga (1540), French mangue , †mengue (1604), whence the appearance of the last two forms in the work cited in quot. 1678 at sense A. 2. The origin of the -o ending is not clear: Dutch mango and Spanish mango are < English. Perhaps compare mangosteen n.The first recorded attestation of the word in a European language is in the following passage (in Italian) referring to Calicut (Kozhikode):1510 L. di Varthema Itin. f. lvii^v Se troua quiui anchora unaltro fructo che se chiama Amba, el pede suo se chiama Manga. Its first recorded occurrence in certain languages, e.g. post-classical Latin (1511) and French (1540) (both as manga), appears to be in translations of this text. The relevant passage was not translated into English but may have had an indirect influence.

Etymology: < classical Latin mangō a dealer in slaves or other commodities: compare ancient Greek μάγγανον means of charming or bewitching others (see mangonel n.).The classical Latin word often has a pejorative sense in post-classical Latin. Its classical Latin derivatives mangōnicō and mangōnium refer to the touching-up of wares for sale, as do mangonism n. 1, mangonization n., mangonize v., mangony n.

Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps < mangle n.³ N.E.D. (1905) gives the pronunciation as (mæ·ngō^u) /ˈmænɡəʊ/.

Etymology: < mango n.¹