mangle

English

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mangle

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmæŋ.ɡəl/

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• Rhymes: -æŋɡəl

Etymology 1

From Middle English mangelen, from Anglo-Norman mangler, mahangler, frequentative of either Old French mangonner (“to cut to pieces”) or mahaigner (“to mutilate”), of Germanic origin, for which see mayhem.

Alternate etymology derives mangle from Middle English *mankelen, a frequentative form of manken (“to mutilate”), from Old English mancian, bemancian (“to maim”). More at mank.

Verb

mangle (third-person singular simple present mangles, present participle mangling, simple past and past participle mangled)

1. (transitive) To change, mutilate, or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging, etc.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons], , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC:

     mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail

   • c. 1703-20, Jonathan Swift, A Letter to a Very Young Lady on Her Marriage

     when they are disposed to mangle a play or a novel

2. (transitive, computing) To modify (an identifier from source code) so as to produce a unique identifier for internal use by the compiler, etc.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Ca. 1700, from Dutch mangel, from Early Modern German Mangel (15th c.), enhanced form (by analogy with other tool names in -el) of Middle High German mange, from Medieval Latin manga, manganum, from Ancient Greek μάγγανον (mánganon). Doublet of mangonel.

Noun

mangle (plural mangles)

1. A hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry.
2. The mangle attached to wringer washing machines, often called the wringer.
   • 1993, John Banville, Ghosts:

     There was a bright-red plastic baby-bath, a car tyre, a rusty mangle, and something that looked like a primitive version of a washing machine.

Derived terms

• put through the mangle

Translations

Verb

mangle (third-person singular simple present mangles, present participle mangling, simple past and past participle mangled)

1. (transitive, archaic) To wring laundry.

Translations

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

mangle (plural mangles)

1. A mangrove (tree).

Anagrams

• Gelman, Mangel, leg man, legman, lemang, mangel

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mangle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)

Noun

mangle m (plural mangles)

1. mangrove

Derived terms

• manglar

Danish

Etymology

From German mangeln (“to lack”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /manɡlə/,

Verb

mangle (imperative mangl, infinitive at mangle, present tense mangler, past tense manglede, perfect tense er/har manglet)

1. lack
2. want
3. need
4. be missing
5. be lacking
6. be absent

French

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Noun

mangle f (plural mangles)

1. mangrove (fruit)
2. mangle (device)

Further reading

• “mangle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

German

Pronunciation

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Verb

mangle

1. inflection of mangeln:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative
   3. first/third-person singular subjunctive I

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From German mangeln.

Verb

mangle (imperative mangl or mangle, present tense mangler, simple past and past participle mangla or manglet, present participle manglende)

1. to lack (something)

Related terms

• mangel

References

• “mangle” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Spanish

Etymology

From Cariban or Taíno/Arawakan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmanɡle/
• Rhymes: -anɡle
• Syllabification: man‧gle

Noun

mangle m (plural mangles)

1. (botany) A mangrove, any of various plants of the genus Rhizophora

Derived terms

Further reading

• “mangle”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014