mantle

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• /ˈmæn.təl/
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• homophone: mantel
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• CMU ARPABET: M AE1 N T AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English mantel, from Old English mæntel, mentel (“sleeveless cloak”), from Proto-West Germanic *mantel; later reinforced by Anglo-Norman mantel, both from Latin mantellum (“covering, cloak”) (French manteau), diminutive of mantum (Spanish manto), probably from Gaulish *mantos, *mantalos (“trodden road”), from Proto-Celtic *mantos, *mantlos, from Proto-Indo-European *menH- (“tread, press together; crumble”). Compare Icelandic möttull. Doublet of manteau.

120 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Armenian: պատմուճան (patmučan) — clothing like an open robe or cloak
• Bulgarian: плащ (plašt) — clothing like an open robe or cloak
• Bulgarian: наметало (nametalo) — clothing like an open robe or cloak
• Bulgarian: ма́нтия (mántija) — clothing like an open robe or cloak
• Catalan: mantell — clothing like an open robe or cloak
• Chinese Mandarin: 斗篷 (dǒupeng) — clothing like an open robe or cloak
• Esperanto: mantelo — clothing like an open robe or cloak
• Finnish: viitta — clothing like an open robe or cloak
• Finnish: mantia — clothing like an open robe or cloak
• French: manteau — clothing like an open robe or cloak
• German: Umhang — clothing like an open robe or cloak
• German: Mantel — clothing like an open robe or cloak
• Greek: μανδύας (mandýas) — clothing like an open robe or cloak
• Ancient Greek: φᾶρος (phâros) — clothing like an open robe or cloak
• Ancient Greek: χλαῖνα (khlaîna) — clothing like an open robe or cloak
• Hebrew: אַדֶּרֶת (adéret) — clothing like an open robe or cloak
• Icelandic: möntull — clothing like an open robe or cloak
• Irish: fallaing — clothing like an open robe or cloak
• Irish: clóca — clothing like an open robe or cloak
• Irish: brat — clothing like an open robe or cloak
• Irish: cochall — clothing like an open robe or cloak
• Italian: mantello — clothing like an open robe or cloak
• Japanese: マント (manto) — clothing like an open robe or cloak
• Japanese: マントル (mantoru) — clothing like an open robe or cloak
• Korean: 망토 (mangto) — clothing like an open robe or cloak
• Latin: amictus — clothing like an open robe or cloak
• Latin: lacerna — clothing like an open robe or cloak
• Macedonian: ма́нтија (mántija) — clothing like an open robe or cloak
• Macedonian: на́метка (námetka) — clothing like an open robe or cloak
• Middle English: mantel — clothing like an open robe or cloak
• Persian: بالاپوش (bâlâpuš) — clothing like an open robe or cloak
• Portuguese: manto — clothing like an open robe or cloak
• Romanian: manta — clothing like an open robe or cloak
• Romanian: mantie — clothing like an open robe or cloak
• Russian: ма́нтия (mántija) — clothing like an open robe or cloak
• Russian: манто́ (mantó) — clothing like an open robe or cloak
• Scottish Gaelic: cleòc — clothing like an open robe or cloak
• Sicilian: mantali — clothing like an open robe or cloak
• Spanish: manto — clothing like an open robe or cloak
• Spanish: pendil — clothing like an open robe or cloak
• Spanish: manteo — clothing like an open robe or cloak
• Tocharian B: kampāl — clothing like an open robe or cloak
• Finnish: vaippa — figurative: anything that covers or conceals something else
• Finnish: peite — figurative: anything that covers or conceals something else
• French: les rênes — figurative: anything that covers or conceals something else
• German: Mantel — figurative: anything that covers or conceals something else
• German: Hülle — figurative: anything that covers or conceals something else
• German: Umhüllung — figurative: anything that covers or conceals something else
• Irish: brat — figurative: anything that covers or conceals something else
• Irish: scáth — figurative: anything that covers or conceals something else
• Middle English: mantel — figurative: anything that covers or conceals something else
• Sicilian: mantali — figurative: anything that covers or conceals something else
• Sicilian: cappa — figurative: anything that covers or conceals something else
• Sicilian: tilu — figurative: anything that covers or conceals something else
• Sicilian: vilu — figurative: anything that covers or conceals something else
• Spanish: manto — figurative: anything that covers or conceals something else
• Bulgarian: ма́нтия (mántija) — zoology: body wall of a mollusc
• Catalan: mantell — zoology: body wall of a mollusc
• Finnish: vaippa — zoology: body wall of a mollusc
• French: manteau — zoology: body wall of a mollusc
• Galician: manto — zoology: body wall of a mollusc
• German: Mantel — zoology: body wall of a mollusc
• Irish: maintlín — zoology: body wall of a mollusc
• Italian: mantello — zoology: body wall of a mollusc
• Latin: amictus — zoology: body wall of a mollusc
• Middle English: mantel — zoology: body wall of a mollusc
• Portuguese: manto — zoology: body wall of a mollusc
• Russian: ма́нтия (mántija) — zoology: body wall of a mollusc
• Spanish: manto — zoology: body wall of a mollusc
• Welsh: mantell — zoology: body wall of a mollusc
• Bulgarian: чорап (čorap) — incandescent gauze in a gas lamp
• Catalan: camisa — incandescent gauze in a gas lamp
• Danish: glødenet — incandescent gauze in a gas lamp
• Dutch: gloeikous — incandescent gauze in a gas lamp
• Finnish: hehkusukka — incandescent gauze in a gas lamp
• Finnish: sukka — incandescent gauze in a gas lamp
• French: manchon — incandescent gauze in a gas lamp
• German: Glühstrumpf — incandescent gauze in a gas lamp
• Italian: reticella — incandescent gauze in a gas lamp
• Norwegian Bokmål: glødenett — incandescent gauze in a gas lamp
• Russian: кали́льная се́тка (kalílʹnaja sétka) — incandescent gauze in a gas lamp
• Spanish: camisa — incandescent gauze in a gas lamp
• Swedish: glödstrompa — incandescent gauze in a gas lamp
• Welsh: mantell — incandescent gauze in a gas lamp
• Chinese Mandarin: 大脑皮质 (dànǎo pízhì) — anatomy: cerebral cortex
• Chinese Mandarin: 大腦皮質 /大脑皮质 (dànǎo pízhì) — anatomy: cerebral cortex
• Finnish: aivokuori — anatomy: cerebral cortex
• German: Hirnrinde — anatomy: cerebral cortex
• German: Rinde — anatomy: cerebral cortex
• Arabic: وِشَاح (wišāḥ) — geology: layer of Earth
• Bashkir: мантия (mantiya) — geology: layer of Earth
• Bulgarian: ма́нтия (mántija) — geology: layer of Earth
• Catalan: mantell — geology: layer of Earth
• Chinese Cantonese: 地幔 (dei6 maan6) — geology: layer of Earth
• Chinese Mandarin: 地幔 (dìmàn) — geology: layer of Earth
• Chinese Mandarin: 地函 (dìhán) — geology: layer of Earth
• Dutch: aardmantel — geology: layer of Earth
• Dutch: mantel — geology: layer of Earth
• Esperanto: termantelo — geology: layer of Earth
• Finnish: vaippa — geology: layer of Earth
• French: manteau — geology: layer of Earth
• German: Erdmantel — geology: layer of Earth
• German: Mantel — geology: layer of Earth
• Greek: μανδύας (mandýas) — geology: layer of Earth
• Italian: mantello — geology: layer of Earth
• Japanese: マントル (mantoru) — geology: layer of Earth
• Kazakh: мантия (mantiä) — geology: layer of Earth
• Korean: 맨틀 (maenteul) — geology: layer of Earth
• Kyrgyz: мантия (mantiya) — geology: layer of Earth
• Latin: amictus — geology: layer of Earth
• Macedonian: о́бвивка (óbvivka) — geology: layer of Earth
• Māori: nukuratarata — geology: layer of Earth
• Norwegian: mantel — geology: layer of Earth
• Portuguese: manto — geology: layer of Earth
• Russian: ма́нтия (mántija) — geology: layer of Earth
• Sicilian: manteḍḍu — geology: layer of Earth
• Spanish: manto — geology: layer of Earth
• Welsh: mantell — geology: layer of Earth
• Finnish: miehusta — top of woman's torso
• Sicilian: pettu — top of woman's torso