{"id":32783,"date":"2017-11-28T10:33:18","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T09:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manjgura.hr\/manjgura-odakle-vam-to-ime-i-kako-se-ono-cita"},"modified":"2018-01-23T15:59:58","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T14:59:58","slug":"manjgura-odakle-vam-to-ime-i-kako-se-ono-cita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manjgura.hr\/en\/blog-en\/manjgura-odakle-vam-to-ime-i-kako-se-ono-cita","title":{"rendered":"Manjgura &#8211; where it comes from and how to pronounce it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Article-meta\">Posljednja izmjena January 23rd, 2018 u 15:59 <\/p><div id=\"attachment_32640\" style=\"width: 454px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32640\" class=\" wp-image-32640\" src=\"http:\/\/manjgura.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/manjgura-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"454\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manjgura.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/manjgura-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manjgura.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/manjgura.jpg 555w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 454px) 100vw, 454px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-32640\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fotografija: Dubrova\u010dki list<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Manjg\u00fara, Mangura, Manjura&#8230; We&#8217;ve heard all kinds of pronunciations of the name of our mischievous little girl.<br \/>\nHere is a note about it in writing \u2013 it is pronounced M\u00e0njgura, with the nj pronounced like ni in &#8216;minion&#8217; and the g as in &#8216;get&#8217;. There is no hint of j as in &#8216;joy&#8217;.<br \/>\n<strong>&#8216;M\u00e0njgura&#8217; is today an often forgotten expression from the Dubrovnik &#8211; Neretva region<\/strong> as well as the much more famous name of our public relations agency.<br \/>\nMany of you are aware that manjak, which derives from the Latin word mancipium and means &#8216;boy&#8217; or &#8216;male child&#8217;, would have been a more accurate name for the agency than M\u00e0njgura.<br \/>\nHowever, since Manjak is a somewhat awkward name for a company (nomen est omen), in 1997 the founders went for a second option. That is how M\u00e0njgura, which in the Durbovnik-Neretva region refers to a female child &#8211; a mischievous one, was born. Once again nomen est omen! \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n<strong>Variations of the expression &#8216;manjgura&#8217;<\/strong><br \/>\nThere are several variations of the name manjgura, all with slightly different associations.<br \/>\nIf you are passing through Dubrovnik and Konavle and you hear the words manj\u010dica or manjica, we&#8217;ll have you know that it is referred to a female child or a young woman.<br \/>\nManjgura also has an augmentative form &#8211; manjgurina or manji\u010dina, which denotes a defiant young woman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posljednja izmjena January 23rd, 2018 u 15:59 Manjg\u00fara, Mangura, Manjura&#8230; We&#8217;ve heard all kinds of pronunciations of the name of our mischievous little girl. Here is a note about it in writing \u2013 it is pronounced M\u00e0njgura, with the nj pronounced like ni in &#8216;minion&#8217; and the g as in &#8216;get&#8217;. There is no hint [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":32639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2836,2707],"tags":[3151],"class_list":["post-32783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-public-relations","category-blog-en","tag-manjgura-en"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/manjgura.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/manjgura2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manjgura.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manjgura.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manjgura.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manjgura.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manjgura.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/manjgura.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manjgura.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manjgura.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manjgura.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manjgura.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}