Engel - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Engel (plural Engels)

1. A surname.

• Engle, engle, glene, gleen

Borrowed from German Engel.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛŋɡɛl]

Engel m anim (female equivalent Engelová)

1. a male surname from German

• “Engel”, in Příjmení.cz (in Czech)

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛŋl̩/

From Middle High German engel, from Old High German engil from Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos). Cognate with English angel.

Engel m (strong, genitive Engels, plural Engel, diminutive Engelchen n or Englein n)

1. angel

   Wisst ihr nicht, dass wir über die Engel richten werden?

   Do you not know that we will judge angels?

   • 1997 April 1, Rammstein, “Engel”, in Sehnsucht [Longing]:

     Gott weiß, ich will kein Engel sein

     God knows, I don't want to be an angel

• Erzengel
• Cherub
• Seraph

• →? Yiddish: ענגעל (engel)

Short form of given names beginning with Engel-, such as Engelbert. Also a nickname for someone with an angelic disposition, or for someone living in a house with a sign of an angel.

Engel m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Engels or (with an article) Engel, feminine genitive Engel, plural Engels or Engel)

1. a surname transferred from the given name

• “Engel” in Duden online
• “Engel” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Engel”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

Engel m (plural Engelen)

1. angel

From Middle High German engel, from Old High German engil, from Proto-West Germanic *angil, borrowed from Latin angelus, itself from Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos).

Engel m (plural Engel)

1. angel (celestial being, messenger)