Mande

Definition: Mande

Mande

Noun

1. A group of African languages in the Niger-Congo group spoken from Senegal east as far as the Ivory Coast.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "Mande" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1844. (references)

Crosswords: Mande

Haitian Creole (ask, asking), Portuguese Brazilian (send).

Profe No se mande (1969)

Cuando la patria lo mande (1920)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• In Search of Sunjata: The Mande Oral Epic As History, Literature and Performance (reference)

• Mande languages and linguistics (reference)

• Mande Music: Traditional and Modern Music of the Maninka and Mandinka of Western Africa (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology) (reference)

• Mande Potters & Leatherworkers: Art and Heritage in West Africa (reference)

• Status and Identity in West Africa: Nyamakalaw of Mande (African Systems of Thought) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Mande Studies (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Music

• Lo Mande Al Norte (reference)

• Royaume du Mande (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Women airport workers. Acutely aware of our country's need for more womanpower in airplane plants and airports, Mrs. Majorie Landa has enlisted as a member of the repair crew of the Washington National Airport. Daughter of the late Congressman Frank Mande.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Economic History

Burkina Faso

Ethnic groups: 63 ethnic groups among which are Mossi (almost half of the total population), Bobo, Mande, Lobi, Fulani, Gurunsi, and Senufo. (references)

Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso's 12 million people belong to two major West African cultural groups--the Voltaic and the Mande (whose common language is Dioula). (references)

Cote d'Ivoire

Cote d'Ivoire has more than 60 ethnic groups, usually classified into five principal divisions: Akan (east and center, including Lagoon peoples of the southeast), Krou (southwest), Southern Mande (west), Northern Mande (northwest), Senoufo/Lobi (north center and northeast). (references)

Minorities

Cote d'Ivoire

Approximately 10 percent belong to the Southern Mande family, of which the Yacouba are the largest group. (references)

Mali

Major ethnic-cultural groups include the following: The Mande, concentrated in the southwest, constituting approximately half the population and including the Bambara and Malinke ethnic groups; the Voltaic, concentrated in the south and comprising the Bobo and Senoufo groups; the Sudanic, concentrated in the central regions and comprising the Sarakole, Songhai, Dogon, and Bozo groups; and the pastoralists, comprising the Tuaregs and Moors of the northeast and northwest, respectively, and the Peul (or Fulani) who are dispersed from widely east to west across the southern third of the country. (references)

Political Rights

Cote d'Ivoire

President Gbagbo has improved ethnic and regional balance in the Government by including members from 13 different ethnic groups: 11 members of Gbagbo's cabinet were from the Krou group (Bete, Dida, Guere, and Wobe); 3 were from the Southern Mande group (Gban, Gouro, and Yacouba) in the western provinces from which Gbagbo comes; and 3 ministers from the north (Northern Mande and Senoufo). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "Mande": Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre. Additional references.

Derivations

Words ending with "Mande": allemande, normande. (additional references)

Words containing "Mande": allemandes, calamander, calamanders, commanded, commandeer, commandeered, commandeering, commandeers, commander, commanderies, commanders, commandership, commanderships, commandery, coromandel, coromandels, countermanded, demanded, demander, demanders, germander, germanders, gerrymander, gerrymandered, gerrymandering, gerrymanders, pomander, pomanders, redemanded, remanded, reprimanded, salamander, salamanders. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: admen, amend, maned, menad, named.

-1 letter: amen, dame, damn, dean, made, mane, mead, mean, mend, name, nema.

-2 letters: and, ane, dam, den, end, mad, mae, man, med, men, nae, nam.

-3 letters: ad, ae, am, an, de, ed, em, en, ma, me, na, ne.

+1 letter: aidmen, amends, anadem, badmen, bedamn, daemon, daimen, damned, damner, dampen, demand, demean, desman, madden, madmen, maenad, maiden, manned, median, medina, menads, moaned, remand, tandem, unmade.

+2 letters: abdomen, adenoma, agendum, amended, amender, amidine, amidone, anadems, beadman, beadmen, bedamns, bedeman, benamed, daemons, damners, dampens, daysmen, decuman, demands, demeans, deskman, desmans, diamine, draymen, duramen, endgame, headman, headmen, herdman, inarmed, landmen, leadman, leadmen, maddens, madness, madrone, maenads, maidens, managed, mandate, mandrel, mangled, manmade, mantled, manured, masoned, maunder, meander, medians, mediant, medinas, medusan, menaced, monades, mundane, reedman, remands, renamed, sandmen, seedman, sideman, tandems, unaimed, unarmed, unmated, unnamed, untamed, womaned, yardmen.

+3 letters: abdomens, adamance, addendum, adeeming, adenomas, agendums, alderman, aldermen, amandine, amenders, amending, amidines, amidogen, amidones, amounted, animated, anthemed, bandsmen, beadsman, beadsmen, bedamned, bedesman, bemadden, bemeaned, bemoaned, boardmen, comedian, daemones, daemonic, daimones, dairymen, dalesman, dalesmen, damnable, damndest, damneder, dampened, dampener, dampness, defaming, demanded, demander, demeaned, demeanor, dementia, demoniac, demonian, diamante, diamines, dominate, dopamine, dragomen, dreaming, dumbcane, duramens, dynamite, emanated, embanked, emendate, empanada, emplaned, enameled, enamored, encamped, endamage, endameba, endemial, endgames, endogamy, enflamed, enframed, enjambed, ependyma, eudaemon, examined, freedman, gammoned, ganymede, gendarme, grandame, hamboned, handmade, handsome, handymen, headsman, headsmen, herdsman, homeland, imagined, impawned, indamine, inflamed, lamented, landmine, landsmen, leadsman, leadsmen, lemonade, machined, maddened, madrones, madwomen, maenades, maenadic, magdalen, maidenly, maligned, manacled, mandated, mandates, mandible, mandrake, mandrels, mannered, margined, marinade, marooned, maunders, maundies, meanders, medaling, medianly, mediants, medusans, megadyne, melanoid, mendable, menhaden, meridian, methadon, midrange, misnamed, montaged, mundanes, muraenid, napalmed, nematode, normande, pandemic, pomander, radiomen, ransomed, redemand, remained, remanded, remanned, romanced, seedsman, surnamed, tamponed, unamused, unblamed, undamped, underarm, undreamt, unframed, unharmed, unjammed, unmanned, unmapped, unmarked, unmarred, unmasked, unmatted, unseamed, unshamed, unwarmed, zemindar.

+4 letters: adamances, adenomata, adornment, alimented, allemande, almandine, almandite, amendable, amendment, amidogens, amnestied, ampersand, amplidyne, andromeda, augmented, bedamning, bemaddens, cacodemon, calamined, comanaged, comedians, commanded, commander, companied, compendia, cyanamide, damascene, damndests, damnedest, damnified, damnifies, dampeners, dampening, deaminase, deaminate, deathsman, deathsmen, debarment, decamping, defoaming, demandant, demanders, demanding, demantoid, demarking, demasting, demeaning, demeanors, demeanour, demential, dementias, demoniacs, demonical, denominal, dentalium, diademing, diamantes, diamonded, dismantle, dominance, dominated, dominates, dopamines, draftsmen, dreamland, dumbcanes, dynamited, dynamiter, dynamites, ealdorman, ealdormen, emendable, emendated, emendates, empanadas, empaneled, enamelled, enamoured, endamaged, endamages, endamebae, endamebas, endamoeba, endoplasm, ependymas, eudaemons, forenamed, fundament, ganymedes, garmented, geminated, gendarmes, germander, goddamned, grandames, guardsmen, handsomer, hardiment, homelands, humanised, humanized, impainted, impaneled, impedance, implanted, indamines, intimated, laminated, lampooned, landmines, lemonades, macedoine, maddening, madeleine, madnesses, madrilene, magdalene, magdalens, magnified, magnitude, mainlined, mandibles, mandoline, mandrakes, manhandle, manicured, mansarded, margented, marinaded, marinades, marinated, maundered, maunderer, meandered, meandrous, medaillon, medalling, medallion, mediating, mediation, medicinal, megadynes, melanized, melanoids, membraned, memoranda, menadione, mendacity, mendicant, menhadens, meridians, methadone, methadons, middleman, midranges, misatoned, mishandle, montadale, moonfaced, mordanted, mujahedin, mundanely, muraenids, muscadine, nematodes, nialamide, nicknamed, nominated, numerated, nursemaid, outmanned, pandemics, pomanders, promenade, randomize, redemands, remainder, remanding, reprimand, rhodamine, romanised, romanized, ruminated, seminomad, smartened, tradesman, tradesmen, unadmired, unamended, unarmored, unashamed, unclaimed, unclamped, undamaged, underarms, undreamed, unmanaged, unmarried, unmatched, womanised, womanized, zemindars, zemindary.

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