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manquês

Portuguese, noun

manquês is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “Manx Gaelic (Celtic language spoken on the Isle of Man)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, manques is a different word: “second-person singular present subjunctive of mancar”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “idioma gaélico falado na Ilha de Man, no Reino Unido (código de língua ISO 639-3: glv)”.

What does manquês mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculineManx Gaelic (Celtic language spoken on the Isle of Man)

adjective

  1. 1

    Manx (of or relating to the Isle of Man)

verb

as manques
  1. 1

    second-person singular present subjunctive of mancar

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. idioma gaélico falado na Ilha de Man, no Reino Unido (código de língua ISO 639-3: glv)

The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.

Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of manquês

  • manquesa feminine
  • manqueses masculine plural
  • manquesas feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).