Angela

See also: angela, angelą, Angéla, anĝela, Ángela, Ângela, and Āngēlā

English

Etymology

Feminine form of Church Latin Angelus, from Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos, “messenger, angel”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈænd͡ʒələ/

• Audio:

  (file)

Proper noun

Angela

1. A female given name from Ancient Greek.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 56:

     Faire Angela (quoth she) men do her call, / No whit lesse faire, then terrible in fight: / She hath the leading of a Martiall / And mighty people, dreaded more then all / The other Saxons, which do for her sake / And love, themselves of her name Angles call.

   • 1996, Frank McCourt, chapter I, in Angela's Ashes, HarperCollins., →ISBN, page 5:

     And the child was named Angela for the Angelus which rang the midnight hour, the New Year, the minute of her coming and because she was a little angel anyway.
     ibid., page 39:
     The man says his name is Mr. Dimino and that's his wife, Angela, behind the counter. I tell him that's my mother's name. No kiddin', kid. Your mother is Angela? I didn't know the Irish had any Angelas.

Usage notes

• Name of an Italian 15th/16th century saint. In general use in English since the 18th century.

Related terms

• (pet form): Angie, Ang, Ange
• (variants): Angel, Angelica, Angelina, Angeline, Angelique
• (male names): Angel, Angelo

Translations

female given name

Albanian: Engjëllike Belarusian: Анжэ́ла f (Anžéla) Breton: Añjela f Bulgarian: Анджела f (Andžela), Анжела f (Anžela) Burmese: အင်ဂျလာ (anggya.la) Catalan: Àngela (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 安杰拉 (Ānjiélā), 安吉拉 (Ānjílā), (from German) 安格拉 (zh) (Āngélā) Czech: Anděla (cs) f Esperanto: Anĝela Estonian: Angela French: Angèle (fr) f Galician: Ánxela (gl) f Georgian: ანგელა (angela), ანჯელა (anǯela) German: Angela (de) f Hungarian: Angéla (hu) Inuktitut: ᐋᓐᔨᓚ (aanyila) Italian: Angela (it) f Japanese: アンジェラ (Anjera), (German) アンゲラ (Angera) Latvian: Anžela f Portuguese: Ângela (pt) f Romagnol: Angiùla f Russian: Анже́ла (ru) f (Anžéla), (English) А́нджела (ru) f (Ándžela), (German) А́нгела (ru) f (Ángela), (Spanish) А́нхела f (Ánxela) Serbo-Croatian: Anđela (sh) Sicilian: Àncila f Spanish: Ángela (es) f Swedish: Angela (sv) Vietnamese: An-giê-la

Anagrams

• Galena, alnage, anlage, galena, lagena

Estonian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑnɡ̊elɑ/, [ˈɑŋɡ̊elɑ]

Proper noun

Angela

1. a female given name from Latin, equivalent to English Angela

Related terms

• Angelika
• Angelina

See also

• Ingel

Faroese

Proper noun

Angela f

1. a female given name from Latin

Usage notes

Matronymics

• son of Angela: Angeluson
• daughter of Angela: Angeludóttir

Declension

	singular
	indefinite
nominative	Angela
accusative	Angelu
dative	Angelu
genitive	Angelu

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaŋɡela/, /aŋˈɡeːla/, /ˈaŋəla/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

Proper noun

Angela f (proper noun, genitive Angelas or (with article) Angela, plural Angelas)

1. a female given name from Latin, equivalent to English Angela

Declension

Declension of Angela [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Angela	die	Angelas1
genitive	einer	der	Angelas, Angela	der	Angelas1
dative	einer	der	Angela	den	Angelas1
accusative	eine	die	Angela	die	Angelas1

¹Rare.

Related terms

• Angelika, Angelina

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈan.d͡ʒe.la/
• Rhymes: -andʒela
• Hyphenation: Àn‧ge‧la

Proper noun

Angela f

1. a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Angela

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈaŋ.ɡɛ.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈan̠ʲ.d͡ʒe.la]

Proper noun

Angela f (genitive Angelae); first declension

1. a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Angela

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	Angela	Angelae
genitive	Angelae	Angelārum
dative	Angelae	Angelīs
accusative	Angelam	Angelās
ablative	Angelā	Angelīs
vocative	Angela	Angelae

Lithuanian

Proper noun

Angela f

1. a female given name

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈanɡela]

Proper noun

Angela f (diminutive Angelka)

1. a female given name from Latin

Declension

Declension of Angela
(pattern žena)

	singular	plural
nominative	Angela	Angely
genitive	Angely	Angiel, Angel
dative	Angele	Angelám
accusative	Angelu	Angely
locative	Angele	Angelách
instrumental	Angelou	Angelami

Derived terms

• Andela
• Andelka
• Angelika

Further reading

• “Angela”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

Swedish

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Proper noun

Angela c (genitive Angelas)

1. a female given name from Latin, equivalent to English Angela

Related terms

• Angelica

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Ángela.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /ˈʔaŋhela/ [ˌʔaŋ.hɛˈla]
    • Rhymes: -aŋhela
  • IPA^(key): /ˈʔand͡ʒela/ [ˌʔan̪.d͡ʒɛˈla] (English influence)
    • IPA^(key): (no palatal assimilation) /ˈʔandjela/ [ˌʔan̪.d̪jɛˈla] (English influence)
    • Rhymes: -and͡ʒela (English influence), (no palatal assimilation) -andjela (English influence)
• Syllabification: An‧ge‧la

Proper noun

Ángelá (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜅ᜔ᜑᜒᜎ or ᜀᜈ᜔ᜇ᜔ᜌᜒᜎ)

1. a female given name from Spanish, equivalent to English Angela

Related terms

• Angelina
• Angelino
• Angelo