mangle

See also: Mangle

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmæŋ.ɡəl/

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• Rhymes: -æŋɡəl

Etymology 1

From Middle English mangelen, from Anglo-Norman mangler, mahangler, frequentative of either Old French mangonner (“to cut to pieces”) or mahaigner (“to mutilate”), of Germanic origin, for which see mayhem.

Alternate etymology derives mangle from Middle English *mankelen, a frequentative form of manken (“to mutilate”), from Old English mancian, bemancian (“to maim”). More at mank.

Verb

mangle (third-person singular simple present mangles, present participle mangling, simple past and past participle mangled)

1. (transitive) To change, mutilate, or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging, etc.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail

   • c. 1703-20, Jonathan Swift, A Letter to a Very Young Lady on Her Marriage

     when they are disposed to mangle a play or a novel

2. (transitive, computing) To modify (an identifier from source code) so as to produce a unique identifier for internal use by the compiler, etc.

Derived terms

• manglement
• mingle-mangle

 

Translations

to change, mutilate or disfigure

• Bulgarian: обезобразя́вам (bg) impf (obezobrazjávam), обезобразя́ pf (obezobrazjá)
• Czech: mrzačit impf
• Finnish: ruhjoa (fi), runnoa (fi), murjoa (fi)
• French: mutiler (fr)
• German: verstümmeln (de), zerfleischen (de), (figuratively) durch die Mangel drehen, kalandrieren (de), zurichten (de)
• Italian: maciullare (it), dilaniare (it), storpiare (it)
• Latin: discerpō
• Portuguese: mutilar (pt), desfigurar (pt), mudar (pt)
• Romanian: mutila (ro), desfigura (ro), sfârtica (ro)
• Russian: искажа́ть (ru) impf (iskažátʹ) (distort), кромса́ть (ru) impf (kromsátʹ) (shred), по́ртить (ru) impf (pórtitʹ) (spoil), кале́чить (ru) impf (kaléčitʹ) (mutilate), уве́чить (ru) impf (uvéčitʹ) (mutilate), уро́довать (ru) impf (uródovatʹ) (mutilate, spoil badly)
• Spanish: mutilar (es), desfigurar (es), afear (es), chambonear (es)
• Swedish: mangla (sv)

Etymology 2

Ca. 1700, from Dutch mangel, from Early Modern German Mangel (15th c.), enhanced form (by analogy with other tool names in -el) of Middle High German mange, from Medieval Latin manga, manganum, from Ancient Greek μάγγανον (mánganon). Doublet of mangonel.

Noun

mangle (plural mangles)

hand mangle

1. A hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry.
2. The mangle attached to wringer washing machines, often called the wringer.
   • 1993, John Banville, Ghosts:

     There was a bright-red plastic baby-bath, a car tyre, a rusty mangle, and something that looked like a primitive version of a washing machine.

Derived terms

• put through the mangle

Translations

a hand-operated device with rollers for wringing laundry

• Bulgarian: преса (bg) f (presa)
• Czech: mandl (cs) m
• Finnish: mankeli (fi)
• French: essoreuse (fr) f
• German: Mangel (de) f, Wäschemangel (de) f, Rollmangel f
• Hungarian: mángorló (hu)
• Italian: mangano (it) m
• Ottoman Turkish: منكنه (mengene)
• Polish: maglownica f, magiel (pl) m
• Romanian: mangăl (ro) n
• Spanish: calandria (es)
• Swedish: mangel (sv) c
• Turkish: mengene (tr)

Verb

mangle (third-person singular simple present mangles, present participle mangling, simple past and past participle mangled)

1. (transitive, archaic) To wring laundry.

Translations

to wring laundry

• Czech: mandlovat (cs) impf, ždímat (cs) impf
• Dutch: mangelen (nl)
• Finnish: mankeloida (fi)
• French: essorer (fr)
• German: mangeln (de), wringen (de), auswringen (de)
• Hungarian: mángorol (hu)
• Polish: maglować (pl) impf, zmaglować pf
• Romanian: mangălui (ro)
• Russian: выжима́ть (ru) impf (vyžimátʹ)
• Swedish: mangla (sv)

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

mangle (plural mangles)

1. A mangrove (tree).

Anagrams

• Gelman, Mangel, leg man, legman, lemang, mangel

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mangle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈmaŋ.ɡlə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈmaŋ.ɡle]

Noun

mangle m (plural mangles)

1. mangrove

Derived terms

• manglar

Danish

Etymology

From German mangeln (“to lack”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /manɡlə/, [ˈmɑŋlə]

Verb

mangle (imperative mangl, infinitive at mangle, present tense mangler, past tense manglede, perfect tense er/har manglet)

1. lack
2. want
3. need
4. be missing
5. be lacking
6. be absent

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

mangle f (plural mangles)

1. mangrove (fruit)
2. mangle (device)

Further reading

• “mangle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

German

Pronunciation

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Verb

mangle

1. inflection of mangeln:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative
   3. first/third-person singular subjunctive I

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From German mangeln.

Verb

mangle (imperative mangl or mangle, present tense mangler, simple past and past participle mangla or manglet, present participle manglende)

1. to lack (something)

Related terms

• mangel

References

• “mangle” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Spanish

Etymology

From Cariban or Taíno/Arawakan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmanɡle/ [ˈmãŋ.ɡle]
• Rhymes: -anɡle
• Syllabification: man‧gle

Noun

mangle m (plural mangles)

1. (botany) A mangrove, any of various plants of the genus Rhizophora

Derived terms

• manglar
• mangle blanco
• mangle botoncillo
• mangle prieto
• mangle rojo
• mangle salado
• manglero

 

Further reading

• “mangle”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28