engel

From Dutch engel.

engel (plural engele)

1. angel

From Old Norse engill (“angel”).

• IPA^(key): /ɛnɡəl/, [ˈɛŋl̩]

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
• Rhymes: -ɛŋəl

engel m (plural engelen, diminutive engeltje n)

1. angel

• doodsengel
• engel des doods
• engelenbak
• worgengel

• Afrikaans: engel

• 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
• Limburgish: ingel

• “inghel”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “engel (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

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
• Luxembourgish: Engel

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

From Proto-Germanic *angiluz, borrowed from Latin angelus, from Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos, “messenger”). Cognate with Old Frisian angel, engel, Old Saxon engil, Middle Dutch engel (Dutch engel), Old High German angil, engil (German Engel), Old Norse engill (Swedish ängel). (Gothic 𐌰𐌲𐌲𐌹𐌻𐌿𐍃 (aggilus) was apparently borrowed directly from the Greek.)

• IPA^(key): /ˈend͡ʒel/

enġel m

1. angel

• enġelcund
• enġellīċ
• hēahenġel

• Middle English: aungel, engel, angel, ængel, aungil, aungell, angell, angyl, angyll, angylle, awngel (contaminated by Anglo-Norman angle)
  • English: angel
    • Jamaican Creole: aynjel
    • → Chinese: 安琪兒 (ānqí'ér)
    • → Hawaiian: ʻānela
    • → Lingala: anjelu, anzelu
    • → Malagasy: anjely
    • → Xhosa: ingelosi
    • → Zulu: ingelosi
  • Scots: angel, aungel

engel (definite accusative engeli, plural engeller)

1. obstacle

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