mangel

See also: Mangel and Mängel

English

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• mangel beet

Translations

sugar beet

• Bulgarian: кръмно цвекло n (krǎmno cveklo)
• Czech: cukrová řepa
• Finnish: sokerijuurikas (fi)
• Maori: pītihuka
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sukkerbete f, sukkerroe m

• Russian: кормова́я свёкла f (kormovája svjókla)
• Swedish: sockerbeta (sv)

Mangelwurzal

• Finnish: rehujuurikas
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fôrbete f, fôrroe m

Anagrams

• Gelman, Mangle, leg man, legman, lemang, mangle

Danish

Etymology

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

Noun

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

Declension of mangel

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

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Etymology 1

Likely from German Mangel.

Noun

mangel n (plural mangels, diminutive mangeltje n)

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

Etymology 2

Noun

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

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

Verb

mangel

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

Etymology 4

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

Verb

mangel

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

Anagrams

• galmen

German

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Verb

mangel

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

Mapudungun

Noun

mangel (Unified spelling)

1. 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)

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

Derived terms

• boligmangel
• datamangel
• mangelfull
• matmangel
• pengemangel
• plassmangel
• søvnmangel
• vannmangel

 

Related terms

• mangle

References

• “mangel” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From German Mangel.

Noun

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

1. a lack or shortage

Derived terms

• mangelfull
• matmangel
• pengemangel
• plassmangel
• søvnmangel

 

References

• “mangel” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romani

Etymology

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

Verb

mangel

1. to ask for
2. to beg

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)

1. Alternative form of mangăl

Declension

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

Noun

mangel c

1. a mangle (laundry pressing machine)

Declension

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

See also

• mangla (“to mangle”)

References

• mangel in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• mangel in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• mangel in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)