mangel

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.

• mangel beet

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

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

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

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Likely from German Mangel.

mangel n (plural mangels, diminutive mangeltje n)

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

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

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

mangel

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

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

mangel

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

• galmen

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mangel

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

mangel (Unified spelling)

1. guest

From German Mangel (“lack, deficiency”), from mangeln (“to lack”), from Old High German mangolōn, from Latin mancare.

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

• mangle

• “mangel” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From German Mangel.

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

1. a lack or shortage

• “mangel” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀫𑀕𑁆𑀕𑀤𑀺 (maggadi), from Sanskrit मार्गति (mārgati).[1][2] Cognate with Hindi माँगना (māṅgnā).

mangel

1. to ask for
2. to beg

• 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

mangel n (plural mangele)

1. Alternative form of mangăl

mangel c

1. a mangle (laundry pressing machine)

• mangla (“to mangle”)

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