English Explanatory Dictionary

Mandel

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname.
  2. A surname from Dutch.
  3. A surname from German.
  4. A surname from Yiddish.
  5. A male given name transferred from the surname.
  6. A village in Rüdesheim, Bad Kreuznach district, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
  7. A river in West Flanders, Belgium.

Word forms

Mandel Mandels Mandell

Etymology

* Germanic surname (Dutch Mandel, German Mandel, Yiddish מאַנדל (Mandl), all meaning "almond"). Also found in Slovene as Mandelj. * As a south German and Austrian surname, variant of Mandl, from Mann + -l. * As a Dutch surname, from mandel (“sheaf of wheat”) (see Mandel below). * As a Jewish surname, variant of Mendel.

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