mangrove

See also: Mangrove

English

A red mangrove growing in shallow water (Rhizophora mangle)

Etymology

Circa 1610, corruption of earlier mangrow by folk etymology influence of grove, from Portuguese mangue, from Spanish mangle (or directly from Spanish), from a Caribbean language, possibly Taíno, another Arawakan language, or a Cariban language.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmæŋɡɹəʊv/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmæŋɡɹoʊv/, /ˈmænˌɡɹoʊv/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: man‧grove

Noun

mangrove (plural mangroves)

1. Any of various tropical evergreen trees or shrubs that grow in intertidal coastal brackish waters.
   • 2024 September 5, Camilo Freedman, “The vanishing mangroves of El Salvador: ‘All our efforts may only slow the destruction’”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     This lush forest, just a few miles from the Guatemalan border, teems with diverse wildlife – from crocodiles and crabs to fish darting through seemingly endless mangroves.

2. A habitat with such plants; mangrove forest; mangrove swamp; mangal.
   • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 204:

     [I]n and out of rivers, streams of death in life, whose banks were rotting into mud, whose waters, thickened into slime, invaded the contorted mangroves, that seemed to writhe at us in the extremity of an impotent despair.

3. Any of various plants of the Rhizophoraceae family.
4. Any of various trees of the genus Rhizophora.

Derived terms

• American mangrove (Rhizophora mangle)
• apple mangrove (Xylocarpus granatum (Australia))
• Asiatic mangrove (Rhizophora mucronata)
• black mangrove (Avicennia germinans; Aegiceras corniculatum, Bruguiera gymnorhiza) (Australia))
• blind-your-eye mangrove (Excoecaria agallocha (Australia))
• Burmese mangrove (Bruguiera gymnorhiza)
• button mangrove (Conocarpus erectus)
• cannonball mangrove (Xylocarpus granatum (Australia))
• cedar mangrove (Xylocarpus granatum)
• club mangrove (Aegialitis annulata)
• flat-leaved spurred mangrove (Ceriops decandra (Australia))
• freshwater mangrove (Barringtonia, Carallia brachiata (Australia))
• gray mangrove/grey mangrove (Avicennia marina)
• holly-leaf mangrove (Acanthus ilicifolius)
• holly mangrove (Acanthus ilicifolius)
• looking-glass mangrove (Heritiera littoralis)
• loop-root mangrove (Rhizophora mucronata)
• mangroveberry (Psidium longipes)
• mangrove black hawk
• mangrove cuckoo
• mangrove gerygone
• mangrove golden whistler
• mangrove grape
• mangrove heron
• mangrove-holly (Acanthus ilicifolius)
• mangrove jack
• mangrove jezebel
• mangrove rail
• mangrove robin
• mangrove snapper
• mangrovevine (Rhabdadenia biflora)
• milky mangrove (Excoecaria agallocha)
• Oriental mangrove (Bruguiera gymnorhiza, Bruguiera sexangula)
• red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle, Rhizophora stylosa; Rhizophora mucronata, Heritiera littoralis (Australia))
• river mangrove (Aegiceras corniculatum)
• slender-fruit orange mangrove (Bruguiera parviflora)
• small stilted mangrove (Rhizophora stylosa)
• spurred mangrove (Ceriops tagal (Australia))
• star mangrove
• stilt-root mangrove (Rhizophora stylosa (Australia))
• tulip mangrove (Heritiera littoralis)
• white-flowered black mangrove (Lumnitzera racemosa)
• white mangrove (Laguncularia racemosa, Avicennia marina)
• yamstick mangrove (Scyphiphora hydrophylacea)

 

Translations

tropical tree or shrub that grows in shallow water

• Afrikaans : ^{(please verify)} mangliete, ^{(please verify)} wortelboom
• Arabic: المنغروف
• Bengali: ম্যানগ্রোভ (mêngrōbh)
• Bhojpuri: मैंग्रोव (maiṅgrōv)
• Bikol Central: bakawan (bcl)
• Bulgarian: (mangrove tree) мангрово дърво n (mangrovo dǎrvo)
• Burmese: လမု (my) (la.mu.)
• Catalan: mangle m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (mangrove tree) 紅樹／红树 (zh) (hóngshù)

• Dhivehi: ކަނޑޫ (kaⁿḍū)
• Esperanto: mangrovo
• Finnish: mangrove (fi), mangrovekasvi
• French: palétuvier (fr) m, manglier (fr) m
• German: Mangrovenbaum m
• Hiligaynon: bakhaw
• Icelandic: leiruviðarskógur, leiruviður m
• Irish: mangróbh m
• Japanese: マングローブ (ja) (mangurōbu)
• Malay: bakau (ms)
• Malayalam: കണ്ടൽ (ml) (kaṇṭal)
• Maori: mānawa, paetai
• Maranao: bakawan
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: mangrove (no) m

  Nynorsk: mangrove m

• Persian: حرا (fa) (harâ)
• Polish: namorzyn m
• Portuguese: mangue (pt) m
• Russian: (mangrove tree) ма́нгровое де́рево n (mángrovoje dérevo), мангр (ru) m (mangr)
• Spanish: mangle (es) m
• Swedish: mangrove (sv) c, mangroveträd n
• Tagalog: bakawan
• Tausug: kabakkawan
• Thai: โกงกาง (th) (goong-gaang)
• Ukrainian: мангль m (manhlʹ)
• Welsh: mangrof m
• Woleaian: maliil
• Xhosa: isikhangati class 7/8

habitat

• Afrikaans : (mangrove swamp)wortelboommoeras
• Antillean Creole : ^{(please verify)} manng
• Arabic: (mangrove forest)^{(please verify)} غابة المنغروف, (mangrove swamp)^{(please verify)} مستنقع المنغروف
• Bengali: ম্যানগ্রোভ অরণ্য (mêngrōbh oronno)
• Bhojpuri: मैंग्रोव बन (maiṅgrōv ban)
• Burmese: လမုတော (la.mu.tau:)
• Cebuano: bakhawan
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (mangrove forest) 紅樹林／红树林 (zh) (hóngshùlín)

• Finnish: mangrovesuo, mangrovemetsä, mangrove (fi)
• French: mangrove (fr) f
• German: Mangrove (de) f
• Hungarian: Mangroveerdő
• Malay: Hutan bakau, hutan paya bakau, paya bakau
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: mangrove (no) m

  Nynorsk: mangrove m

• Persian: جنگل حرا
• Polish: mangrowe nvir, mangrowia nvir, namorzyny nvir
• Portuguese: manguezal, mangue (pt)
• Spanish: manglar (es) m
• Swedish: mangrove (sv) c
• Thai: ป่าชายเลน (bpàa-chaai-leen), ป่าโกงกาง (bpàa-goong-gaang)
• Ukrainian: ма́нгри m pl (mánhry)
• Urdu: مینگروو کے جنگل
• Vietnamese: rừng ngập mặn, rừng đước, ^{(please verify)} bưng biền (vi)

plant of the Rhizophoraceae family

• Finnish: mangrove (fi), mangrovepuukasvi (fi)
• Japanese: ヒルギ (hirugi)
• Swedish: rödmangroveväxt c

tree of the genus Rhizophora

• Bulgarian: ризофора f (rizofora)
• Cebuano: bakhaw
• Finnish: mangrove (fi), mangrovepuu (fi)
• Polish: mangrowiec m

See also

• mangle

Further reading

• mangrove on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• venogram

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English mangrove, from earlier mangrow by folk etymology influence of grove, from Portuguese mangue, from Spanish mangle (or directly from Spanish), from a Caribbean language.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌmɑŋˈɣroː.və/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: man‧gro‧ve
• Rhymes: -oːvə

Noun

mangrove m (plural mangroven or mangroves)

1. a mangrove tree

   Synonyms: mangroveboom, wortelboom

2. a mangrove forest

   Synonyms: mangrovebos, vloedbos

Derived terms

• mangroveboom
• mangrovebos
• mangrovereiger

Finnish

Etymology

From English mangrove.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑŋroʋe/, [ˈmɑ̝ŋro̞ʋe̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑŋroʋe
• Syllabification^(key): mang‧ro‧ve

Noun

mangrove

1. mangrove (all senses)

Declension

• Also mangroveiden is often used for genitive plural.

Inflection of mangrove (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)
nominative		mangrove	mangrovet
genitive		mangroven	mangrovejen
partitive		mangrovea	mangroveja
illative		mangroveen	mangroveihin
		singular	plural
nominative		mangrove	mangrovet
accusative	nom.	mangrove	mangrovet
	gen.	mangroven
genitive		mangroven	mangrovejen mangrovein rare
partitive		mangrovea	mangroveja
inessive		mangrovessa	mangroveissa
elative		mangrovesta	mangroveista
illative		mangroveen	mangroveihin
adessive		mangrovella	mangroveilla
ablative		mangrovelta	mangroveilta
allative		mangrovelle	mangroveille
essive		mangrovena	mangroveina
translative		mangroveksi	mangroveiksi
abessive		mangrovetta	mangroveitta
instructive		—	mangrovein
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of mangrove (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative mangroveni mangroveni accusative nom. mangroveni mangroveni gen. mangroveni genitive mangroveni mangrovejeni mangroveini rare partitive mangroveani mangrovejani inessive mangrovessani mangroveissani elative mangrovestani mangroveistani illative mangroveeni mangroveihini adessive mangrovellani mangroveillani ablative mangroveltani mangroveiltani allative mangrovelleni mangroveilleni essive mangrovenani mangroveinani translative mangrovekseni mangroveikseni abessive mangrovettani mangroveittani instructive — — comitative — mangroveineni second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative mangrovesi mangrovesi accusative nom. mangrovesi mangrovesi gen. mangrovesi genitive mangrovesi mangrovejesi mangroveisi rare partitive mangroveasi mangrovejasi inessive mangrovessasi mangroveissasi elative mangrovestasi mangroveistasi illative mangroveesi mangroveihisi adessive mangrovellasi mangroveillasi ablative mangroveltasi mangroveiltasi allative mangrovellesi mangroveillesi essive mangrovenasi mangroveinasi translative mangroveksesi mangroveiksesi abessive mangrovettasi mangroveittasi instructive — — comitative — mangroveinesi first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative mangrovemme mangrovemme accusative nom. mangrovemme mangrovemme gen. mangrovemme genitive mangrovemme mangrovejemme mangroveimme rare partitive mangroveamme mangrovejamme inessive mangrovessamme mangroveissamme elative mangrovestamme mangroveistamme illative mangroveemme mangroveihimme adessive mangrovellamme mangroveillamme ablative mangroveltamme mangroveiltamme allative mangrovellemme mangroveillemme essive mangrovenamme mangroveinamme translative mangroveksemme mangroveiksemme abessive mangrovettamme mangroveittamme instructive — — comitative — mangroveinemme second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative mangrovenne mangrovenne accusative nom. mangrovenne mangrovenne gen. mangrovenne genitive mangrovenne mangrovejenne mangroveinne rare partitive mangroveanne mangrovejanne inessive mangrovessanne mangroveissanne elative mangrovestanne mangroveistanne illative mangroveenne mangroveihinne adessive mangrovellanne mangroveillanne ablative mangroveltanne mangroveiltanne allative mangrovellenne mangroveillenne essive mangrovenanne mangroveinanne translative mangroveksenne mangroveiksenne abessive mangrovettanne mangroveittanne instructive — — comitative — mangroveinenne third-person possessor singular plural nominative mangrovensa mangrovensa accusative nom. mangrovensa mangrovensa gen. mangrovensa genitive mangrovensa mangrovejensa mangroveinsa rare partitive mangroveaan mangroveansa mangrovejaan mangrovejansa inessive mangrovessaan mangrovessansa mangroveissaan mangroveissansa elative mangrovestaan mangrovestansa mangroveistaan mangroveistansa illative mangroveensa mangroveihinsa adessive mangrovellaan mangrovellansa mangroveillaan mangroveillansa ablative mangroveltaan mangroveltansa mangroveiltaan mangroveiltansa allative mangrovelleen mangrovellensa mangroveilleen mangroveillensa essive mangrovenaan mangrovenansa mangroveinaan mangroveinansa translative mangrovekseen mangroveksensa mangroveikseen mangroveiksensa abessive mangrovettaan mangrovettansa mangroveittaan mangroveittansa instructive — — comitative — mangroveineen mangroveinensa

Synonyms

• (tropical tree or shrub that grows in shallow water): mangrovekasvi
• (habitat): mangrovemetsä, mangrovesuo
• (plant of the Rhizophoraceae family): mangrovepuukasvi
• (tree of the genus Rhizophora): mangrovepuu

Derived terms

compounds

• aasianmangrovemedestäjä
• mangrovekasvi
• mangrovekäärme
• mangrovemesikko
• mangrovemetsikkö
• mangrovemetsä
• mangrovepuu

 

Further reading

• “mangrove”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

French

Etymology

From earlier mangrore, borrowed from English mangrove.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɑ̃.ɡʁɔv/

• Audio:

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Noun

mangrove f (plural mangroves)

1. a mangrove forest

Further reading

• “mangrove”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Noun

mangrove f

1. plural of mangrova

Norwegian Bokmål

Mangrove

Etymology

From English mangrove.

Noun

mangrove m (definite singular mangroven, indefinite plural mangrover, definite plural mangrovene)

1. mangrove (tree or forest)

Derived terms

• mangroveskog

References

• “mangrove” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “mangrove” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English mangrove.

Noun

mangrove m (definite singular mangroven, indefinite plural mangrovar, definite plural mangrovane)

1. mangrove (tree or forest)

Derived terms

• mangroveskog

References

• “mangrove” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

From English mangrove.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maŋˈɡroːvɛ/

Noun

mangrove c

1. mangrove

Declension

Declension of mangrove

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	mangrove	mangroves
	definite	mangroven	mangrovens
plural	indefinite	mangrover	mangrovers
	definite	mangroverna	mangrovernas

Derived terms

• mangroveskog

References

• mangrove in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• mangrove in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• mangrove in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)