Pranger

== German == === Alternative forms === Brangel, Branger, Pfrange, Pfranger, Pfrenger, Prange (obsolete) === Etymology === From northern Middle High German pranger (13th c.), derived from *prangen, a West Central German form of phrengen, phrangen (“to force, squeeze, confine”), from Proto-Germanic *pranganą (compare English prong). Not related with prangen, but possibly at some point associated with it. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈpraŋər/, [ˈpʁa.ŋɐ] === Noun === Pranger m (strong, genitive Prangers, plural Pranger) pillory; any construction to hold someone for public humiliation 1904, Friedrich Bernhard Störzner, Was die Heimat erzählt, Arwed Strauch, page 197: ==== Declension ==== ==== Synonyms ==== Schandbühne Schandpfahl ==== Derived terms ==== am Pranger an den Pranger stellen anprangern === Further reading === “Pranger”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) “Pranger” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “Pranger” in Duden online “Pranger” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.