angel

See also Angel, Angel-, ángel, Ángel, àngel, Àngel, and ängel

English

Wikipedia

Statue of an angel

Alternative forms

• aynjel (Jamaican English)

Etymology

From Middle English angel, aungel, ængel, engel, from Old English ængel, engel (“angel, messenger”), possibly via an early Proto-Germanic *angiluz but ultimately from Latin angelus, from Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos, “messenger”). Cognate with Scots angel (“angel”), West Frisian ingel (“angel”), Dutch engel (“angel”), Low German engel (“angel”), German Engel (“angel”), Swedish ängel (“angel”), Icelandic engill (“angel”), Gothic 𐌰𐌲𐌲𐌹𐌻𐌿𐍃 (aggilus, “angel, messenger”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ānʹjəl, IPA: /ˈeɪn.dʒəl/, X-SAMPA: /"eIn.dZ@l/

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Noun

angel (plural angels)

1. A divine and supernatural messenger from a deity, or other divine entity.
2. (abrahamic tradition) The lowest order of angels, below virtues.
3. A selfless person.

   You made me breakfast in bed, you little angel.

4. (military slang) An altitude, measured in thousands of feet.

   Climb to angels sixty.

5. An affluent individual who provides capital for a startup, usually in exchange for convertible debt or ownership equity.

Synonyms

• errand-ghost

Hyponyms

• cherub, minion, power, principality, seraph, throne

Derived terms

angel's dram angelfish angelic

angelology archangel guardian angel fallen angel

Related terms

evangelist evangelize

Translations

messenger from a deity

• Afrikaans: engel (af)
• Albanian: engjëll (sq) m
• Arabic: ملاك (ar) (malāk) m
• Aramaic:

  Syriac: ܡܠܐܟܐ (mala’kā’) m

  Hebrew: מלאכא (mala’kā’) m, מלאך (he) (mal'ach)

• Armenian: հրեշտակ (hy) (hreštak)
• Aromanian: anghil (rup)
• Asturian: ánxel (ast) m
• Azeri: mələk (az)
• Bashkir: фәрештә (färeštä)
• Belarusian: анёл (be) (anjól) m, ангел (be) (ánhel) m
• Bulgarian: ангел (bg) (ángel) m
• Catalan: àngel (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᎠᏂᏓᏪᎯ (chr) (anidawehi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 天使 (tin1 si3)

  Mandarin: 天使 (cmn) (tiānshǐ), 安琪兒 (cmn), 安琪儿 (cmn) (ānqí'ér)

• Czech: anděl (cs) m
• Danish: engel (da) c
• Dutch: engel (nl)
• Esperanto: anĝelo (eo)
• Estonian: ingel (et)
• Faroese: eingil (fo) m
• Finnish: enkeli (fi)
• French: ange (fr) m

  Old French: angle m

• Galician: anxo (gl) m
• Georgian: ანგელოზი (ka) (angelozi)
• German: Engel (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἄγγελος (angelos) m

  Modern: άγγελος (el) (ángelos) m

• Hawaiian: ʻānela
• Hebrew: מַלְאָךְ (he) (mal'ach) m
• Hindi: फ़रिश्ता (hi) (farišta) m
• Hungarian: angyal (hu)
• Icelandic: engill (is) m
• Indonesian: malaikat (id), bidadari (id)
• Irish: aingeal (ga) m
• Italian: angelo (it) m
• Jamaican Creole: aynjel
• Japanese: 天使 (ja) (てんし, tenshi), 天の使い (ja) (てんのつかい, ten-no tsukai), エンゼル (ja) (enzeru)
• Kazakh: періште (kk) (perişte)
• Korean: 천사 (ko) (cheonsa) (天使 (ko))
• Ladino: מלאך, malah

• Latin: angelus (la) m
• Latvian: eņģelis (lv) m
• Lithuanian: angelas (lt) m
• Luxembourgish: Engel (lb) m
• Macedonian: ангел (mk) (ángel) m
• Malay: malaikat (ms), malak (ms), bidadara (ms) m, bidadari (ms) f
• Navajo: diyin naalʼaʼí
• Norwegian: engel (no) m
• Occitan: àngel (oc) m
• Old English: engel (ang) m
• Old French: angele m
• Old Norse: engill m
• Persian: فرشته (fa) (ferešte)
• Polish: anioł (pl) m
• Portuguese: anjo (pt) m
• Romanian: înger (ro) m
• Romansch: anghel (rm) m
• Russian: ангел (ru) (ángel) m
• Sardinian:

  Campidanese Sardinian: anghelu, angìulu

  Logudorese Sardinian: anzelu, anghelu

• Sassarese Sardinian: àngniru
• Scottish Gaelic: aingeal (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: анђео (sh) m

  Roman: anđeo (sh) m

• Sinhalese: දේවදූතයා (si) (dēvadūtayā)
• Skolt Sami: a´ŋǧǧel
• Slovak: anjel (sk) m
• Slovene: angel (sl) m
• Spanish: ángel (es) m
• Swahili: malaika (sw)
• Swedish: ängel (sv) c
• Tajik: фаришта (tg) (farišta)
• Tatar: фәрештә (tt) (färeştä)
• Thai: เทวดา (th) (teewádaa)
• Tongan: 'angelo (to)
• Turkish: melek (tr)
• Turkmen: melek (tk), perişde (tk)
• Ukrainian: ангел (uk) (ánhel) m, (colloquial, regional) янгол (uk) (jánhol) m
• Urdu: فرشتہ (ur) (farišta) m
• Vietnamese: thiên thần (vi)
• Welsh: angel (cy) m, angyles (cy) f
• West Frisian: ingel (fy) c
• Yiddish: מלאך (yi) (malekh) m
• Yup'ik: an'gilaq, aankilaq

in Christian angelology, the lowest order of angels

• Aramaic:

  Syriac: ܡܠܐܟܐ (mala’kā’) m

  Hebrew: מלאכא (mala’kā’) m

• Armenian: հրեշտակ (hy) (hreštak)
• Danish: engel (da) c
• Estonian: ingel (et)
• Faroese: eingil (fo)
• Finnish: enkeli (fi)
• French: ange (fr) m
• German: Engel (de) m
• Greek: άγγελος (el) (ángelos) m
• Icelandic: engill (is) m
• Irish: aingeal (ga) m
• Japanese: 天使 (ja) (tenshi)

• Luxembourgish: Engel (lb) m
• Macedonian: ангел (mk) (ángel) m
• Norwegian: engel (no) m
• Old English: engel (ang) m
• Old Norse: engill m
• Polish: anioł (pl) m
• Portuguese: anjo (pt) m
• Russian: ангел (ru) (ángel) m
• Scottish Gaelic: aingeal (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian: anđeo (sh) m
• Swahili: malaika (sw)
• Swedish: ängel (sv) c
• West Frisian: ingel (fy)

selfless person

• Armenian: հրեշտակ (hy) (hreštak)
• Danish: engel (da) c
• Dutch: engel (nl) m
• Estonian: ingel (et)
• Finnish: enkeli (fi)
• French: ange (fr) m
• German: Engel (de) m
• Greek: άγγελος (el) (ángelos) m
• Hungarian: angyal (hu)
• Icelandic: engill (is) m
• Irish: aingeal (ga) m

• Luxembourgish: Engel (lb) m
• Macedonian: ангел (mk) (ángel) m
• Polish: anioł (pl) m
• Portuguese: anjo (pt) m
• Russian: ангел (ru) (ángel) m
• Scottish Gaelic: aingeal (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian: anđeo (sh) m
• Swedish: ängel (sv) c
• Turkish: melek (tr)
• West Frisian: ingel (fy)

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• Georgian: ანგელოზი (angelozi)
• Hebrew: כְּרוּב m (khrub)
• Indonesian: malaikat
• Interlingua: angelo
• Latin: angelus m

• Maltese: anġlu m
• Northern Sami: eaŋgal, eŋgel
• Skolt Sami: a´ŋǧǧel
• Spanish: ángel m

Verb

angel (third-person singular simple present angels, present participle angeling, simple past and past participle angeled)

1. (transitive, slang) To support by donating money.
   • 1984, “American Magazine”, volume 118, page 88: 

     You've got to come to Chicago to meet Duell, and see Wilson, who's going to angel the show.

Descendants

• Hawaiian: ʻānela

Anagrams

• angle, Angle
• Elgan
• Galen
• glean

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Pronunciation

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• IPA: /ˈaŋəl/

Noun

angel m (plural angels, diminutive angeltje)

1. sting, dart (insect's organ)
2. hook, fish-hook, angle

Anagrams

• algen, lagen, lange, nagel

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German

Verb

angel

1. First-person singular present of angeln.
2. Imperative singular of angeln.

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Old Frisian

Noun

angel m

1. angel

Declension

Declension of angel (strong a-stem, masculine)

	singular	plural
nominative	angel	angelar, angela
accusative	angel	angelar, angela
genitive	angeles	angela
dative	angele	angelum, angelem

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Serbo-Croatian

Noun

angel m

1. (Kajkavian) angel
2. Obsolete form of anđel.

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Slovene

Noun

angel m anim. (dual angela, plural angeli)

1. angel

Declension

Declension of angel (masculine animate, hard)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	angel	angela	angeli
accusative	angela	angela	angele
genitive	angela	angelov	angelov
dative	angelu	angeloma	angelom
locative	angelu	angelih	angelih
instrumental	angelom	angeloma	angeli

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Welsh

Noun

angel m (plural angylion or engyl) 

1. (religion) angel

Derived terms

• angyles

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West Frisian

Noun

angel

1. What a bee uses to sting when it feels threatened: a sting, a stinger.
2. A fishing rod.