engel

From Dutch engel.

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engel (plural engele)

1. angel

From Old Norse engill (“angel”), borrowed from Old Saxon engil and/or Old English enġel, from Proto-West Germanic *angil, which is borrowed via Latin angelus, from Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos, “messenger”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛŋəl]

engel c (singular definite englen or engelen, plural indefinite engle)

1. angel

From Middle Dutch engel, from Old Dutch engil, from Latin angelus, from Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛŋəl/

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• Hyphenation: en‧gel
• Rhymes: -ɛŋəl

engel m (plural engelen, diminutive engeltje n)

1. angel

• aartsengel
• alsof er een engeltje op je tong piest
• beschermengel
• doodsengel
• engel des doods
• engelachtig
• engelbewaarder
• engelenbak
• engelengeduld
• engelenhaar
• engelenkoor
• engelenmis
• engelenzang
• engelin
• engelwortel
• worgengel

• Afrikaans: engel
• Negerhollands: engel
• → Papiamentu: engel

• gelen
• legen

From Old Dutch engil, from Latin angelus, from Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos).

engel m

1. angel, servant of God
2. fallen angel

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• ingel

• Dutch: engel
  • Afrikaans: engel
  • Negerhollands: engel
  • → Papiamentu: engel
• Limburgish: ingel

• “inghel”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “engel (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page II

engel

1. Alternative form of aungel

From Old High German engil.

engel m

1. angel

• Alemannic German: Ängel, Ängu

  Swabian: Engele

• Bavarian: Engl

  Cimbrian: énghel

• German: Engel
  • →? Yiddish: ענגעל (engel)
• Luxembourgish: Engel
• → Latvian: eņģelis

From Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos), via Old Norse engill.

engel m (definite singular engelen, indefinite plural engler, definite plural englene)

1. an angel

• skytsengel

• “engel” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos), via Old Norse engill.

engel m (definite singular engelen, indefinite plural englar, definite plural englane)

1. an angel

• skytsengel

• “engel” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• anġel, ænġel, enġyl, enċġel

From Proto-West Germanic *angil, borrowed from Latin angelus, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos, “messenger”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈen.jel/, [ˈen.d͡ʒel]

enġel m (nominative plural englas)

1. angel

   Slǣp þū swōte. Iċ hopiġe þæt þē mǣte be englum.

   Sleep well. I hope you dream about angels.

   • late 10th century, Ælfric, "Memory of the Saints"

     Seo eahteoðe leahter is superbia gehaten þæt is on ænglisc modigynss gecweden. Seo is ord and ende ælcere synne. Seo geworhte englas to atelicum deoflum...

     The eighth sin is called Superbia that is called Pride, in English, which is the beginning and end of every sin; it made angels into horrible devils,...

• enġelcund
• enġellīċ
• hēahenġel

• Middle English: aungel, engel, angel, ængel, aungil, aungell, angell, angyl, angyll, angylle, awngel, enngell (contaminated by Anglo-Norman angle)
  • English: angel (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: angel, aungel

From Ottoman Turkish انكل (engel).

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engel (definite accusative engeli, plural engeller)

1. obstacle

• mâni

• engellemek

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “انكل”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 166