מלאך - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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From a verb meaning “to send” which is only attested in Ugaritic 𐎍𐎛𐎋 (lỉk), 𐎍𐎀𐎋 (lảk), Arabic لَأَكَ (laʔaka), أَلْأَكَ (ʔalʔaka), Ge'ez ለአከ (läʾäkä). The only other word from this root in Hebrew is מְלָאכָה (məlāḵā́, “commission, sending → particular occupation, work, business”).

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /malˈ(ʔ)aχ/

מַלְאָךְ • (mal'ákh) m (plural indefinite מַלְאָכִים, singular construct מַלְאַךְ־, plural construct מַלְאֲכֵי־) [pattern: מַקְטָל]

1. angel
2. (rare) messenger

• מַלְאָכוּת (malʾāḵūṯ, “messengership”)
• מלאך המוות / מַלְאַךְ הַמָּוֶת (mal'ákh hamávet)
• מַלְאַךְ חַבָּלָה (mal'ákh khabalá)
• מַלְאֲכֵי הַשָּׁרֵת (mal'ákhei hasharét)
• רַב־מַלְאָךְ (rav-mal'ákh)

• Yiddish: מלאך (malekh)
• → Ancient Greek: ἄγγελος (ángelos, “angel”) (semantic loan) (see there for further descendants)
• → Kermanic: (learned)

  Isfahani: malāx

• → Tat: малах (learned)

• H4397 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

• מאכל

From Hebrew מלאך.

מלאך m (Latin spelling malah, plural מלאכים)

1. angel

Borrowed from Hebrew מַלְאָךְ (mal'ákh).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɫəχ/
• Hyphenation: מ‧לאך

מלאך • (malekh) m, plural מלאכים (malokhem)

1. angel

• (rare) ענגעל (engel)

• Paul Abelson (1915) “angel”, in English-Yiddish Encyclopedic Dictionary, New York: The Jewish Press