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''Manges'' (; Greek: μάγκες (:ˈma(ɲ)ɟes), sing.: μάγκας ''mangas'' (:ˈma(ŋ)ɡas)) is the name of a social group in the Belle Époque era's〔The time period in Greek history that began during the late 19th century and lasted until World War I is called Προπολεμική Εποχή "Antebellum era" in the Greek Literature and corresponds to the European Belle Époque.〕 counterculture of Greece (especially of the great urban centers: Athens, Piraeus, and Thessaloniki). The nearest English equivalent to the term "mangas" () is wide boy, or spiv. Mangas was a label for men belonging to the working class, behaving in a particularly arrogant/presumptuous way, and dressing with a very typical vesture composed of a woolen hat (''kavouraki'', καβουράκι), a jacket (they usually wore only one of its sleeves), a tight belt (used as a knife case), stripe pants, and pointy shoes. Other features of their appearance were their long moustache, their bead chaplets (κομπολόγια, sing. κομπολόι), and their idiosyncratic manneristic limp-walking (κουτσό βάδισμα). A related social group were the Koutsavakides (κουτσαβάκηδες, sing. κουτσαβάκης〔According to lexicographer Menos Filintas (Μένος Φιλήντας) their name comes from kottabos; according to the Triantafyllidis Institute it derives from the surname of Dimitris "Mitsos" Koutsavakis, a notable mangas who lived in Piraeus: (κουτσαβάκης ).〕); the two terms are occasionally used interchangeably. Manges are also notable for being closely associated to the history of Rebetiko. ==Etymology== The three most probable etymologies of the word Mangas are the following: * From the Turkish ''manga'' "small military troop" via Albanian.〔Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής, Institute of Manolis Triantafyllidis, 1998: (μάγκας ).〕 * From the Latin ''manica'' (from the same root as Modern Greek μανίκι "sleeve") "hand-related" (''cf''. the sound change from the Latin manicus to the Spanish mango "handle").〔Babiniotis, Georgios. Λεξικό της Νέας Ελληνικής Γλώσσας - Δεύτερη Ἐκδοση (2nd edition), ''ed''. Κέντρο Λεξικολογίας Ε.Π.Ε., Athens, 2002. (2,032 pgs) ISBN 960-86190-1-7.〕 * According to a more marginal proposal, its origin is from the Latin ''mango, -onis'' "dealer, trader".〔Andriotis, Nikolaos. Ετυμολογικό λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής - Etymologiko lexiko tis koinis neoellinikis, Institute of Manolis Triantafyllidis, 06/1995.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「mangas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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