mangel

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See also: Mangel and Mängel

English[edit]

Noun[edit]

mangel (plural mangels)

  1. The sugar beet, which can be refined to equal cane sugar in all manners save for botanical origin.
  2. A mangelwurzel, a plant of the beet family raised as cattle feed.
    For many days the animals had nothing to eat but mangels.

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Danish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From German Mangel (“lack”), from mangeln (“to lack”).

Noun[edit]

mangel c (singular definite manglen or mangelen, plural indefinite mangler)

  1. lack, want, absence
  2. defect, flaw, deficiency, shortcomings
  3. disadvantage, drawback
  4. shortage, scarcity

Inflection[edit]

Declension of mangel
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative mangel manglen
mangelen 		mangler manglerne
genitive mangels manglens
mangelens 		manglers manglernes

Dutch[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

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Etymology 1[edit]

Likely from German Mangel.

Noun[edit]

mangel n (plural mangels, diminutive mangeltje n)

  1. (dated) lack
  2. (dated) deficiency

Etymology 2[edit]

Noun[edit]

mangel m (plural mangels, diminutive mangeltje n)

  1. a mangle; a hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry
  2. a mangle; the mangle attached to wringer washing machines, often called the wringer

Etymology 3[edit]

From the verb mangelen (“to fail; to lack”). Related to etymology 1.

Verb[edit]

mangel

  1. inflection of mangelen:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative

Etymology 4[edit]

From the verb mangelen (“to wring laundry trough a mangle or a similar device”). Related to etymology 2.

Verb[edit]

mangel

  1. inflection of mangelen:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative

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German[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

mangel

  1. inflection of mangeln:
    1. first-person singular present
    2. singular imperative

Mapudungun[edit]

Noun[edit]

mangel (Unified spelling)

  1. guest

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From German Mangel (“lack, deficiency”), from mangeln (“to lack”), from Old High German mangolōn, from Latin mancare.

Noun[edit]

mangel m (definite singular mangelen, indefinite plural mangler, definite plural manglene)

  1. lack, want, absence
  2. defect, flaw, deficiency, shortcomings
  3. disadvantage, drawback
  4. shortage, scarcity

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Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From German Mangel.

Noun[edit]

mangel m (definite singular mangelen, indefinite plural manglar, definite plural manglane)

  1. a lack or shortage

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Romani[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀫𑀕𑁆𑀕𑀤𑀺 (maggadi), from Sanskrit मार्गति (mārgati).[1][2] Cognate with Hindi माँगना (māṅgnā).

Verb[edit]

mangel

  1. to ask for
  2. to beg

References[edit]

  1. ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “māˊrgati”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 579
  2. ^ Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “mangél”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 175a

Further reading[edit]

  • Marcel Courthiade (2009) “mang/el, -lǎs”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 234a

Romanian[edit]

Noun[edit]

mangel n (plural mangele)

  1. Alternative form of mangăl

Declension[edit]

Declension of mangel
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) mangel mangelul (niște) mangele mangelele
genitive/dative (unui) mangel mangelului (unor) mangele mangelelor
vocative mangelule mangelelor

Swedish[edit]

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Noun[edit]

mangel c

  1. a mangle (laundry pressing machine)

Declension[edit]

Declension of mangel 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative mangel mangeln manglar manglarna
Genitive mangels mangelns manglars manglarnas

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