different between angel vs satan

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?n?j?l, IPA^(key): /?e?n.d??l/

Etymology 1

From Middle English angel, aungel, ængel, engel, from Anglo-Norman angele, angle and Old English æn?el, en?el, en??el (“angel, messenger”), from Proto-West Germanic *angil, borrowed from Latin angelus, itself from Ancient Greek ??????? (ángelos, “messenger”). The religious sense of the Greek word first appeared in the Septuagint as a translation of the Hebrew word ????????? (mal???, “messenger”) or ???? ???????? (mal??? YHWH, “messenger of YHWH”).

Use of the term in some churches to refer to a church official derives from interpreting the "angels" of the Seven churches of Asia in Revelation as being bishops or ministers rather than angelic beings.

Alternative forms

• Angel
• angell (obsolete)

Noun

angel (plural angels)

1. An incorporeal and sometimes divine messenger from a deity, or other divine entity, often depicted in art as a youthful winged figure in flowing robes.
   • 1641, Ben Jonson, The Sad Shepherd

     The dear good angel of the Spring, / The nightingale.

2. (Abrahamic tradition) One of the lowest order of such beings, below virtues.
3. A person having the qualities attributed to angels, such as purity or selflessness.

   Thanks for making me breakfast in bed, you little angel.

4. (obsolete) Attendant spirit; genius; demon.
5. (possibly obsolete) An official (a bishop, or sometimes a minister) who heads a Christian church, especially a Catholic Apostolic church.
   • 1817, Thomas Stackhouse, A history of the holy Bible, corrected and improved by G. Gleig, page 504

     An apostle, or angel, or bishop, as he is now called, resided with a college of presbyters about him, in every considerable city of the Roman empire; to that angel or bishop, was committed the pastoral care of all the Christian in the city and its suburbs, exending as far on all sides as the jurisdiction of the civil magistrate extended;

   • 1832, Edward Irving, speech before the Presbytery of London, quoted in 1862, Margaret Oliphant, The Life of Edward Irving, Minister of the National Scotch Church, London: Illustrated by His Journals and Correspondence, page 429

     […] the head of that Church, in whose place I stand in my Church, and in whose place no other standeth (the elders and deacons have their place, but this belongeth to the angel or minister of the Church), and the Lord commendeth him for trying […]

   • 1878, Edward Miller, The History and Doctrines of Irvingism Or of the So-called Catholic and Apostolic Church, § 9 Pastors, page 50 (discussing the structure of the early Christian church and of the Catholic Apostolic Church):

     The second or highest grade consists of the Angels or Bishops of Churches. Each Church has its Angel, who has (1) the higher supervision and care of all the flock, (2) the supervision and care of the Priests under him, and (3) the care of the Church itself.

6. (historical) An English gold coin, bearing the figure of the archangel Michael, circulated between the 15th and 17th centuries, and varying in value from six shillings and eightpence to ten shillings.

   Synonym: angel-noble

7. (military slang, originally Royal Air Force) An altitude, measured in thousands of feet.

   Climb to angels sixty. (“ascend to 60,000 feet”)

8. (colloquial, dated) An unidentified flying object detected by air traffic control radar.
9. An affluent individual who provides capital for a startup, usually in exchange for convertible debt or ownership equity; an angel investor.
10. (theater) The person who funds a show.

    Synonym: backer

Synonyms

• (spiritual messenger): errand-ghost (rare)

Hyponyms

• cherub, minion, power, principality, seraph, throne

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• Jamaican Creole: aynjel
• ? Chinese: ??? (?nqí'ér)
• ? Hawaiian: ??nela
• ? Lingala: anjelu, anzelu
• ? Malagasy: anjely

Translations

Verb

angel (third-person singular simple present angels, present participle angeling or angelling, simple past and past participle angeled or angelled)

1. (transitive, theater, slang) To support by donating money.
   • 1944, Maurice Zolotow, Never Whistle in a Dressing Room; Or, Breakfast in Bedlam (page 59)

     Six years ago, he lost $20,000 in the first show he angelled, a turkey called Dance Night.

Etymology 2

Clipping of Angelman

Noun

angel (plural angels)

1. (informal) A person who has Angelman syndrome.

Anagrams

• -angle, Angle, Elgan, Galen, Lange, Legan, Nagle, agnel, angle, genal, glean, lenga

Chibcha

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Spanish angel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /an?el/

Noun

angel

1. angel

References

• Gómez Aldana D. F., Análisis morfológico del Vocabulario 158 de la Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia. Grupo de Investigación Muysccubun. 2013.

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch angel, from Old Dutch *angul, from Proto-Germanic *angulaz.

Cognate with German Angel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????l/
• Hyphenation: an?gel
• Rhymes: -???l

Noun

angel m (plural angels, diminutive angeltje n)

1. sting, dart (insect's organ)
2. hook, fish-hook, angle
3. tang (extension of a tool or weapon's head that is inserted in a handle)
4. (rare, obsolete) a snake's tongue

Derived terms

• gifangel
• voetangel

Descendants

• Afrikaans: angel

See also

• hengel

Anagrams

• algen, lagen, lange, nagel

German

Verb

angel

1. singular imperative of angeln

Indonesian

Etymology

From Javanese ????? (angél).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?a??l]
• Hyphenation: angèl

Adjective

angèl

1. (colloquial) difficult.

   Synonyms: sukar, sulit

Further reading

• “angel” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Karao

Noun

angel

1. (anatomy) body

Middle English

Noun

angel

1. Alternative form of aungel

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

angel m (definite singular angelen, indefinite plural anglar, definite plural anglane)

1. Alternative form of ongel

Old Frisian

Alternative forms

• engel

Noun

angel m

1. angel

Inflection

Descendants

• Saterland Frisian: Engel
• West Frisian: ingel

Old Spanish

Etymology

From Latin angelus (“angel”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (ángelos, “messenger, angel”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ãn.d??el]

Noun

angel m (plural angeles)

1. angel
   • c. 1200: Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 2v.

     e?tos angeles có q fablo abraá. vinieron a ?odoma e loth ?edia ala puerta dela cibdat. e violos e leuátos cótra elló. e omillos troa la tierra. e dixo les priego uos mios ?énores. Q? uégades aca?a de u?o ?ieruo albergar.

     These angels to whom Abraham spoke came to Sodom, and Lot was at the city's gate. And he saw them and he got up to greet them and groveled with his face to the ground. And he said, “I beg you, my lords, come spend the night at your servant's house.”

   • Idem, f. 4v.

     […] veno el angel del c?ador de noch ¬ dixo alabá. Gvardate de aquel o?e nol fagas mal.

     […] And the angel of the Creator came to Laban at night and said unto him, “Beware that man and do him no harm.”

Related terms

• evangelio

Descendants

• Ladino: andjel
• Spanish: ángel

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

angel m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. (Kajkavian) angel
2. Obsolete form of an?el.

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /à?n??l/

Noun

ángel m anim

1. angel

Inflection

Further reading

• “angel”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Welsh

Etymology

From Middle Welsh angel, from Ecclesiastical Latin or Vulgar Latin from Latin angelus, from Ancient Greek ??????? m (ángelos, “messenger; one that announces”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a??l/
  • (North Wales, colloquial also) IPA^(key): /?a?al/

Noun

angel m (plural angylion or engyl)

1. (religion) angel

Derived terms

• angyles (“female angel”)
• archangel (“archangel”)

Mutation

Further reading

R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “angel”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian *angel, from Proto-Germanic *angulaz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?enk-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a??l/

Noun

angel c (plural angels, diminutive angeltsje)

1. sting, stinger (insect's organ)
2. fishing rod

Further reading

• “angel (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

English

Etymology 1

See Satan: from Latin Sat?n, from Ancient Greek ????? (Satán), from Hebrew ??????? (S?t?n, “adversary, accuser”).

Noun

satan (plural satans)

1. Alternative form of Satan (especially in the sense "a demon follower of Satan; a fallen angel").
   • 1993, Jacob Lassner, Demonizing the Queen of Sheba, page 199,

     According to Wahb b. Munnabih, Muhammad b. Ka‘b, and other authorities: Solomon was led to this [test of her intelligence] because the satans feared that he would marry her and make her desirous of having his offspring. She would then disclose to him the secrets of the jinn, and they would never rid themselves of their subservience to Solomon and his offspring to follow.

   • 2004, Mark Allan Powell, 6: Satan and the Demons, Kathleen E. Corley, Robert L. Webb (editors), Jesus and Mel Gibson?s The Passion of the Christ: The Film, the Gospels and the Claims of History, page 72,

     He tells them to go away, calling them ‘You little satans!’ and then the children?s faces become ghoulish and they begin snapping at him, trying to bite him. A short time later, we see Judas being chased by about a dozen of these children; he falls and they kick and hit him. Twice, we see the figure of Satan (recognizable from the opening scene) standing among the demon-children.

Etymology 2

Noun

satan (plural satans)

1. Obsolete form of satin.

Anagrams

• Santa, antas, asant, naats, taans, tanas

Azerbaijani

Participle

satan

1. subject non-past participle of satmaq

Esperanto

Adjective

satan

1. accusative singular of sata

French

Noun

satan m (plural satans)

1. Alternative form of Satan

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Satan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa?tan/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

satan

1. bastard; sly person

Interjection

satan

1. (vulgar) fuck; shit

   Satan! Det gjer vondt!

   Fuck! This hurts!

   Satan då!

   Holy shit!

   Fuck this!

Slovak

Etymology 1

From Ecclesiastical Latin sat?n, from Ancient Greek ????? (Satán), ????? (Satân) from Hebrew ??????? (????n, “adversary, accuser”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?sa.tan]
• Rhymes: -an, -tan
• Hyphenation: sa?tan

Noun

satan m (genitive singular satana, nominative plural satani, declension pattern of chlap)

1. Satan, the Devil, the supreme evil spirit, who rules Hell
2. (expressive, derogatory) a person or animal regarded as particularly malignant, detestable, or evil

Declension

Alternative forms

• satanáš m

Related terms

• satanský, satansky
• satanstvo n
• satanista m, satanistka f, satanistický, satanizmus m

Etymology 2

Shortening of the taxonomic name hríb satanský, a calque of the species name Rubroboletus satanas. See satan, etymology 1.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?sa.tan]
• Rhymes: -an, -tan
• Hyphenation: sa?tan

Noun

satan m (genitive singular satana, nominative plural satany, declension pattern of dub)

1. (colloquial) a poisonous fungus of the bolete family, Rubroboletus satanas (earlier: Boletus satanas), with a pale cap and a red-patterned stem

   Synonym: (taxonomic name) hríb satanský

Declension

Related terms

• satanský
• hríb

References

Further reading

• satan in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s???tan/

Interjection

satan

1. (vulgar) Used to express anger, irritation, disappointment, annoyance, contempt, etc. A swear word.

See also

• Satan

Anagrams

• anats, ansat, antas