different between skipper vs manji

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?sk?p.?(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?sk?p?/
• Rhymes: -?p?(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English skippere, skyppere, scippere, borrowed from Middle Dutch scipper, schipper, from Old Dutch *skip?ri, from Proto-Germanic *skip?rijaz. Doublet of shipper.

Noun

skipper (plural skippers)

1. (nautical) The master of a ship.

   Synonyms: master, captain
2. A coach, director, or other leader.
3. (sports) The captain of a sports team such as football, cricket, rugby or curling.

Descendants

• ? German: Skipper

Translations

Verb

skipper (third-person singular simple present skippers, present participle skippering, simple past and past participle skippered)

1. (transitive) To captain a ship or a sports team.

Etymology 2

From Middle English skippere, skyppare, equivalent to skip +? -er.

Noun

skipper (plural skippers)

1. Agent noun of skip: one who skips.
2. A person who skips, or fails to attend class.
3. (sports) One who jumps rope.
4. Any of various butterflies of the families Hesperiidae and its subfamily Megathyminae, having a hairy mothlike body, hooked tips on the antennae, and a darting flight pattern.
   • ca. 1864, John Clare, "We passed by green closes":

     Blue skippers in sunny hours ope and shut

     Where wormwood and grunsel flowers by the cart ruts […]

5. Any of several marine fishes that often leap above water, especially Cololabis saira, the Pacific saury.
6. (obsolete) A young, thoughtless person.
7. The cheese maggot, the larva of a cheese fly (family Piophilidae), which leaps to escape predators.

Translations

Etymology 3

Probably from Welsh ysgubor (“a barn”).

Noun

skipper (plural skippers)

1. A barn or shed in which to shelter for the night.

Derived terms

• skipper-bird

Verb

skipper (third-person singular simple present skippers, present participle skippering, simple past and past participle skippered)

1. (intransitive) To take shelter in a barn or shed.

Anagrams

• Kippers, kippers

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English skipper.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ski.pe/

Noun

skipper m (plural skippers)

1. skipper

Verb

skipper

1. to skipper

Conjugation

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English skipper.

Noun

skipper m (invariable)

1. (nautical) skipper (person in charge of a vessel)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Middle Low German schipper

Noun

skipper m (definite singular skipperen, indefinite plural skippere, definite plural skipperne)

1. (nautical) a skipper

Derived terms

• fiskeskipper

References

• “skipper” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Middle Low German schipper

Noun

skipper m (definite singular skipperen, indefinite plural skipperar, definite plural skipperane)

1. (nautical) a skipper

Derived terms

• fiskeskipper

References

• “skipper” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

English

Etymology 1

From Hindi ????? (m?ñjh?, “boatman, sailor”).

Alternative forms

• mangee, manjee

Noun

manji (plural manjis)

1. (obsolete, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan) A captain or skipper of a boat. [17th–19th c.]
   • 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 361:

     I prevailed upon the mangee of a pinnace I found laying in the creek, awaiting the arrival of a gentleman hourly expected from Vizagapatam, to convey us up the river as far as Budge Budge […] .

Etymology 2

From a form of Punjabi ???? (mañj?, “raised bed”). The Sikh sense is based on their use as seats of authority.

Noun

manji (plural manjis)

1. A type of raised bed similar to a cot from South Asia.
   • 1990, W. H. McLeod, Textual Sources for the Study of Sikhism, page 152:

     Literally, 'He sat on a manji.' The manji is a small string bed. In the villages of the Punjab acknowledged leaders, spiritual and temporal, would commonly receive their followers seated on a manji.

   • 2005, W. Owen Cole, Piara Singh Sambhi, A Popular Dictionary of Sikhism: Sikh Religion and Philosophy:

     The significance of a manji lies in its use as the seat of a person in authority, other people sitting on the ground.

   • 2011, Rocky Singh, Mayur Sharma, Highway on my Plate: The indian guide to roadside eating, Random House India (?ISBN):

     There is even a tap to bathe under after you have spent a night sleeping on the manjis (beds), and all this comes at the price of a meal!

   • 2015, Shauna Singh Baldwin, What the Body Remembers:

     Roop doesn't want to sleep on a mat on the floor; she wants to sleep with Lajo Bhua on a manji, wants Lajo Bhua to tell her stories till she falls asleep.

2. (Sikhism) A Sikh religious administrative unit.
   • 1993, Sunita Puri, Advent of Sikh Religion: A Socio-political Perspective, page 155:

     In the Janam Sakhis and utterances of Guru Nanak there is no reference, implicit or explicit, to the subject of manjis.

Derived terms

• manji sahib/Manji Sahib

Etymology 3

From Japanese ? (manji).

Noun

manji (plural manjis)

1. A left-facing Japanese swastika.

Embu

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *màjíj??.

Noun

manji

1. water

References

• Ciarunji Chesaina, Oral Literature of the Embu and Mbeere (1997, ?ISBN

Japanese

Romanization

manji

1. R?maji transcription of ???

Serbo-Croatian

Adjective

manji (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. comparative degree of malen