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発音

• IPA: /ˈmæŋ.ɡəl/
• 韻: -æŋɡəl

語源 1

From 中期英語 mangelen, manglen, 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 中期英語 *mankelen, a frequentative form of manken (“to mutilate”), from 古期英語 *mancian, bemancian (“to maim”). More at mank.

動詞

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.

派生語

語源 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.

名詞

mangle (plural mangles)

1. A hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry.

   Synonym: mangler

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.

派生語

動詞

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

1. (transitive, archaic) To wring laundry.

語源 3

Borrowed from Spanish mangle, mangue, probably from an Arawak language (such as Taíno), or a Cariban language.

名詞

mangle (plural mangles)

1. (chiefly Caribbean, US) Synonym of mangrove.
   1. Any of various trees of the genus Rhizophora, especially the red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle).
   2. A forest of such trees.
   3. Preceded by a descriptive word: any of various shrubs or trees of genera other than Rhizophora which resemble plants of this genus in appearance and habitat.

参照

Further reading

• mangrove on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

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