mangelwurzel

See also: mangel-wurzel

English

Alternative forms

mangel-wurzel
mangle-wurzel

Etymology

From German Mangold (“chard”) + Wurzel (“root”), with the first part reinterpreted as Mangel, whence the archaic English name "root of scarcity".

Noun

mangelwurzel (plural mangelwurzels)

A root vegetable, variety of Beta vulgaris, cultivated chiefly as cattle feed.
- 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 11, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, OCLC 3174108:
  I have not written to my beloved Amelia for these many weeks past, for what news was there to tell of the sayings and doings at Humdrum Hall, as I have christened it; and what do you care whether the turnip crop is good or bad; whether the fat pig weighed thirteen stone or fourteen; and whether the beasts thrive well upon mangelwurzel?
- 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 1, in Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:
  Wheat and barley, oats and hay,
  Clover, beans, and mangel-wurzels

Synonyms

(root vegetable): mangold, mangold wurzel, root of scarcity (archaic)

Coordinate terms

beet
chard

Translations

root vegetable

Finnish: rehujuurikas
French: betterave (fr) f
German: Runkelrübe (de) f, Futterrübe (de) f
Irish: meaingeal m
Japanese: マンゲルヴルツェル (mangeruvurutseru)
Maori: mangawaha, mangowātera
Russian: манго́льд (ru) m (mangólʹd), листова́я свёкла f (listovája svjókla)
Swedish: mangold (sv) c
Welsh: betysen borthi f

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