μάγγανον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Sanskrit मञ्जुल (mañjula, “charming, lovely”) and मङ्गल (maṅgala, “lucky charm, amulet, talisman”) have been proposed as cognates. Connection to the group of μάσσω (mássō, “to knead”) is unconvincing. Van Beek suggests a comparison with μηχανή (mēkhanḗ, “contrivance”); the pair of words shows prenasalization and interchange of γ and χ, which would be typical reflexes of a Pre-Greek word; however these are typical Semitic variations, and if the movement patterns of a pulley or catapult are compared with that of a sickle, it is easier derived from the family of Aramaic מַגְּלָא / ܡܓܠܐ (maggǝlā), Hebrew מַגָּל (maggā́l), Arabic مِنْجَل (minjal), words of transparent derivation meaning “sickle”, which passed into Old Georgian მანგალი (mangali), Old Armenian մանգաղ (mangał), and formally and geographically remarkably Georgian and Mingrelian მაგანა (magana), still meaning sickle. The senses “philtre”, “charm” and “pulley block”, “bolt”, “catapult” may ultimately have different origins, however both are relatable due to the image of witchcraft being “cast”, like the charge of a catapult is warped or a sickle is rapped.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /máŋ.ɡa.non/ → /ˈmaŋ.ɡa.non/ → /ˈmaŋ.ɡa.non/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /máŋ.ɡa.non/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈmaŋ.ɡa.non/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmaŋ.ɡa.non/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈmaŋ.ɡa.non/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈmaŋ.ɡa.non/

Noun

μάγγᾰνον • (mánganon) n (genitive μαγγᾰ́νου); second declension

1. philtre, charm, means for bewitching others
2. block of a pulley
3. bolt, iron peg
4. catapult, ballista, tormentum

Inflection

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ μάγγᾰνον tò mánganon	τὼ μαγγᾰ́νω tṑ mangánō	τᾰ̀ μάγγᾰνᾰ tà mángana
Genitive	τοῦ μαγγᾰ́νου toû mangánou	τοῖν μαγγᾰ́νοιν toîn mangánoin	τῶν μαγγᾰ́νων tôn mangánōn
Dative	τῷ μαγγᾰ́νῳ tôi mangánōi	τοῖν μαγγᾰ́νοιν toîn mangánoin	τοῖς μαγγᾰ́νοις toîs mangánois
Accusative	τὸ μάγγᾰνον tò mánganon	τὼ μαγγᾰ́νω tṑ mangánō	τᾰ̀ μάγγᾰνᾰ tà mángana
Vocative	μάγγᾰνον mánganon	μαγγᾰ́νω mangánō	μάγγᾰνᾰ mángana
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Second declension of τὸ μάγγᾰνον; τοῦ μαγγᾰ́νου (Attic)

Derived terms

• μαγγανάριος (manganários)
• μαγγανεία (manganeía)
• μαγγάνευμα (mangáneuma)
• μαγγανευτήριον (manganeutḗrion)
• μαγγανευτής (manganeutḗs)
• μαγγανευτικός (manganeutikós)
• μαγγανεύτρια (manganeútria)
• μαγγανεύω (manganeúō)
• μαγγανικά (manganiká)

 

Descendants

• Greek: μάγγανο (mángano), μάγκανο (mágkano)
• → Arabic: مَنْجَنُون (manjanūn), مَنْجَنِين (manjanīn)
• → Aramaic:

  Jewish Palestinian Aramaic: מנגנ

  Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: מַנְגְּנוּן (mangənūn), מַנְגְּנִין (mangənīn)

  Classical Syriac: ܡܢܓܢܘܢ (mangānōn)

• → Middle Armenian: մանգանայ (manganay)
• → Old Armenian: մանգղիոն (mangłion), մանգղոն (mangłon)
• → Ge'ez: መንገን (mängän)
• → Georgian: მანგანა (mangana, “pincers (blacksmith); vice”)
• → Hebrew: מַנְגָּנוֹן (manganṓn)
• → Latin: manganum (plural mangana)
  • → Middle High German: mange, mangel
    • German: Mange, Mangel
      • ⇒ German: mangeln
    • → Czech: mandl, mangl
      • ⇒ Czech: mandlovat
      • → Slovak: mangeľ
        • ⇒ Slovak: mangľovať, mangľovňa
    • → Middle Dutch: manghe, mangel
      • → English: mangle
        • → Romanian: mangăl
    • → Finnish: mankeli
    • → Middle Low German: mange
    • → Hungarian: mángorol
    • → Kashubian: mągla
      • ⇒ Kashubian: mąglovac, mąglac
    • → Polish: magiel, maglownica, maglarka, maglarz
      • → Ukrainian: ма́гель (máhelʹ), ма́голь (máholʹ), ма́гіль (máhilʹ), магельни́ца (mahelʹnýca), магля́рка (mahljárka), маглівни́ца (mahlivnýca)
        • ⇒ Ukrainian: маглюва́ти (mahljuváty)
      • ⇒ Polish: maglować
  • → Italian: mangano
  • Sicilian: mànganu, Mànganu
• →⇒ Laz: მანგანა (mangana), წკარ-მანგანა (ǯǩar-mangana)
• → Ottoman Turkish: منگنه (mengene)
  • Turkish: mengene
  • → Armenian: մենկենե (menkene), մանգյանա (mangyana)
  • → Bulgarian: ме́нгеме (méngeme)
  • → Macedonian: менгеме (mengeme)
  • → Persian: منگنه (mangane)
  • → Romanian: menghină
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ме̏нгеле, ме̑нгеле

    Latin script: mȅngele, mȇngele

Further reading

• “μάγγανον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μάγγανον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• μάγγανον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN