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English
Noun
mangel (plural mangels)
- The sugar beet, which can be refined to equal cane sugar in all manners save for botanical origin.
- 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
Etymology
From German Mangel (“lack”), from mangeln (“to lack”).
Noun
mangel c (singular definite manglen or mangelen, plural indefinite mangler)
- lack, want, absence
- defect, flaw, deficiency, shortcomings
- disadvantage, drawback
- shortage, scarcity
Inflection
Dutch
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Likely from German Mangel.
Noun
mangel n (plural mangels, diminutive mangeltje n)
- (dated) lack
- (dated) deficiency
Etymology 2
Noun
mangel m (plural mangels, diminutive mangeltje n)
- a mangle; a hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry
- a mangle; the mangle attached to wringer washing machines, often called the wringer
Etymology 3
From the verb mangelen (“to fail; to lack”). Related to etymology 1.
Verb
mangel
- inflection of mangelen:
- first-person singular present indicative
- (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
- imperative
Etymology 4
From the verb mangelen (“to wring laundry trough a mangle or a similar device”). Related to etymology 2.
Verb
mangel
- inflection of mangelen:
- first-person singular present indicative
- (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
- imperative
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German
Pronunciation
Verb
mangel
- inflection of mangeln:
- first-person singular present
- singular imperative
Mapudungun
Noun
mangel (Unified spelling)
- guest
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From German Mangel (“lack, deficiency”), from mangeln (“to lack”), from Old High German mangolōn, from Latin mancare.
Noun
mangel m (definite singular mangelen, indefinite plural mangler, definite plural manglene)
- lack, want, absence
- defect, flaw, deficiency, shortcomings
- disadvantage, drawback
- shortage, scarcity
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Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From German Mangel.
Noun
mangel m (definite singular mangelen, indefinite plural manglar, definite plural manglane)
- a lack or shortage
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Romani
Etymology
Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀫𑀕𑁆𑀕𑀤𑀺 (maggadi), from Sanskrit मार्गति (mārgati).[1][2] Cognate with Hindi माँगना (māṅgnā).
Verb
mangel
- to ask for
- to beg
References
- ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “māˊrgati”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 579
- ^ 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
- 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
Noun
mangel n (plural mangele)
- Alternative form of mangăl
Declension
Swedish
Noun
mangel c
- a mangle, a wringer (laundry pressing machine)
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