mangel

Noun

mangel (plural mangels)

1. The sugar beet, which can be refined to equal cane sugar in all manners save for botanical origin.
2. A mangelwurzel, a plant of the beet family raised as cattle feed.

   For many days the animals had nothing to eat but mangels.

Anagrams

• Gelman, Mangle, leg man, legman, lemang, mangle

Etymology

From German Mangel (“lack”), from mangeln (“to lack”).

Noun

mangel c (singular definite manglen or mangelen, plural indefinite mangler)

1. lack, want, absence
2. defect, flaw, deficiency, shortcomings
3. disadvantage, drawback
4. shortage, scarcity

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Verb

mangel

1. first-person singular present indicative of mangelen
2. imperative of mangelen

Anagrams

• galmen

Verb

mangel

1. First-person singular present of mangeln.
2. Imperative singular of mangeln.

Noun

mangel (using Unified Alphabet)

1. guest

Etymology

From German Mangel

Noun

mangel m (definite singular mangelen, indefinite plural mangler, definite plural manglene)

1. lack, want, absence
2. defect, flaw, deficiency, shortcomings
3. disadvantage, drawback
4. shortage, scarcity

References

• “mangel” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Etymology

From German Mangel

Noun

mangel m (definite singular mangelen, indefinite plural manglar, definite plural manglane)

1. a lack or shortage

References

• “mangel” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.