Zingel

See also: zingel

Translingual

Zingel zingel

Proper noun

Zingel m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Percidae – strebers and zingels, of fresh waters of portions of Europe.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Osteichthyes – superclass; Actinopterygii – superclass; Actinopteri – class; Neopterygii – subclass; Teleostei – infraclass; Perciformes – order; Percoidei – suborder; Percoidea – superfamily; Percidae – family; Luciopercinae – subfamily

Hyponyms

• (genus): Zingel zingel (zingel) – type species; Zingel asper (Rhone streber), Zingel balcanicus (Vardar streber), Zingel streber (Danube streber) – other species

References

• Zingel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Zingel on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Zingel on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Zingel at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Zingel at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Zingel at World Register of Marine Species
• Zingel at Fishbase

English

Etymology

Transliteration of Yiddish זינגעל (zingel), from Middle High German zingel (“defensive wall”), originally applied to someone who lived near a castle’s outermost wall.

Proper noun

Zingel (plural Zingels)

1. A surname from Yiddish

German

Alternative forms

• Cingel (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cingulum. Doublet of Zingulum.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Noun

Zingel m (strong, genitive Zingels, plural Zingel)

1. curtain wall

Declension

Declension of Zingel [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Zingel	die	Zingel
genitive	eines	des	Zingels	der	Zingel
dative	einem	dem	Zingel	den	Zingeln
accusative	einen	den	Zingel	die	Zingel

Derived terms

• umzingeln

Further reading

• “Zingel” in Duden online