mangaka

See also: Mangaka, mangaká, mangaką, and Manga-ka

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 漫画家(まんがか) (mangaka).

Noun

mangaka (plural mangakas or mangaka)

1. A professional manga or anime artist.

Hypernyms

• cartoonist

Coordinate terms

• manhwaga (a manhwa artist)

Translations

a professional manga or anime artist

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 漫畫家／漫画家 (zh) (mànhuàjiā)

• French: mangaka (fr) m or f
• German: Mangaka (de) m, Mangazeichner m
• Indonesian: mangaka (id)
• Italian: mangaka (it) m
• Japanese: 漫画家 (ja) (まんがか, mangaka)
• Korean: 만화가 (ko) (manhwaga)
• Polish: mangaka m
• Portuguese: mangaká (pt) m or f
• Russian: манга́ка (ru) m or f (mangáka)
• Spanish: mangaka m or f

Anagrams

• makanga

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 漫画家 (mangaka).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɑ̃.ɡa.ka/

• Audio

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Noun

mangaka m or f by sense (plural mangakas)

1. a mangaka
   • 2005 November 1, “Duck Action : 5 mangas inmangables ! [Duck Action: 5 Manga You Can’t Miss!]”, in Picsou Magazine (non-fiction), Disney Hachette Presse, page 27:

     Hiromu Arakawa est une jeune mangaka débutante quand elle envoie son premier projet chez un éditeur. L’histoire courte deviendra FullMetal Alchemist, un des mangas les plus vendus au Japon : 12 millions d’exemplaires !

     Hiromu Arakawa was a young mangaka debuting when she sent her first project to a publisher. That short story became FullMetal Alchemist, one of the best-selling manga in Japan: 12 million copies!

Coordinate terms

• manhuajia
• manhwaga

See also

• manga
• artiste
• auteur
• bédé / BéDé / BD / bande dessinée

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 漫画 (まんがか, mangaka, “a cartoonist; a comics artist”), from 漫画 (manga, “comics”) +‎ 家 (-ka, “-ist”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /man.ɡa.ka/
• Hyphenation: man‧ga‧ka

Noun

mangaka (first-person possessive mangakaku, second-person possessive mangakamu, third-person possessive mangakanya)

1. a cartoonist; a comics artist

Related terms

• manga

Further reading

• “mangaka” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Japanese

Romanization

mangaka

1. Rōmaji transcription of まんがか
2. Rōmaji transcription of マンガか

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 漫画家.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maŋˈɡa.ka/
• Rhymes: -aka
• Syllabification: man‧ga‧ka

Noun

mangaka m pers

1. (comics) mangaka (professional manga or anime artist)

Declension

Declension of mangaka

	singular	plural
nominative	mangaka	mangacy
genitive	mangaki	mangaków
dative	mangace	mangakom
accusative	mangakę	mangaków
instrumental	mangaką	mangakami
locative	mangace	mangakach
vocative	mangako	mangacy

Related terms

nouns

• manga
• mangowiec

 

Further reading

• mangaka at Obserwatorium językowe Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 漫画家 (mangaka).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /manˈɡaka/ [mãŋˈɡa.ka]
• Rhymes: -aka
• Syllabification: man‧ga‧ka

Noun

mangaka m (plural mangakas)

1. mangaka