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.

• 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).

engel (definite accusative engeli, plural engeller)

1. obstacle

• mâni

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