Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word hall. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in hall.
Definitions and meaning of hall
hall
Etymology
From Middle Englishhalle, from Old Englishheall(“hall, dwelling, house; palace, temple; law-court”), from Proto-West Germanic*hallu, from Proto-Germanic*hallō(“hall”), from Proto-Indo-European*ḱel-(“to hide, conceal”).
Cognate with Scotshall, haw(“hall”), Dutchhal(“hall”), GermanHalle(“hall”), Norwegianhall(“hall”), Swedishhall(“hall”), Icelandichöll(“palace”), Latincella(“room, cell”), Sanskritशाला(śā́lā, “house, mansion, hall”). Doublet of cell.
Pronunciation
(UK) IPA(key): /hɔːl/
(US) IPA(key): /hɔl/
(cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /hɑl/
Rhymes: -ɔːl
Homophone: haul
Noun
hall (pluralhalls)
A corridor; a hallway.
A large meeting room.
A manor house (originally because a magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion).
A building providing student accommodation at a university.
The principal room of a secular medieval building.
(obsolete) Cleared passageway through a crowd, as for dancing.
A place for special professional education, or for conferring professional degrees or licences.
a Divinity Hall; Apothecaries' Hall
(India) A living room.
(Oxbridge) A college's canteen, which is often but not always coterminous with a traditional hall.
(Oxbridge slang) A meal served and eaten at a college's hall.
Derived terms
Descendants
→ Greek: χολ(chol), χωλ(chol), χωλλ(choll)
→ Japanese: ホール(hōru)
→ Korean: 홀(hol)
→ Russian: холл(xoll)
Translations
Albanian
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈhaɫ/
Rhymes: -aɫ
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkishحال(hal, “situation; grief”).
hall kështu, hall ashtu. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
References
“hall”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language][1] (in Albanian), 1980, page 643ab
Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “hall1”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 184f.
Mann, S. E. (1948) “hall”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 153a
Meyer, G. (1891) “hał”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 145
Further reading
Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “hall”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 141f.
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkishحل(hal, “solution”).
Noun
hallm (pluralhalle) (colloquial)
solution, way out
Synonyms:zgjidhje, rrugëdalje
References
“hall”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language][2] (in Albanian), 1980, page 643ab
Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “hall2”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 185
From Proto-Finnic*halli (compare Finnishhalli), from Balto-Slavic. Compare Latviansalnis, Lithuanianšalnis(“off-white, roan”).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈhɑlʲː/, [ˈ(h)ɑlʲː]
Adjective
hall (genitivehalli, partitivehalli, comparativehallim, superlativekõige hallim)
grey (color)
Declension
Derived terms
hallitama
See also
Etymology 3
GermanHalle.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈhɑlʲː/, [ˈ(h)ɑlʲː]
Noun
hall (genitivehalli, partitivehalli)
hall (large room or building)
Declension
Further reading
hall in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Englishhall.
Pronunciation
(aspirated h) IPA(key): /ol/
Noun
hallm (pluralhalls)
hall
lobby
Further reading
“hall”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
German
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /hal/
Rhymes: -al
Verb
hall
singular imperative of hallen
(colloquial)first-person singular present of hallen
Hungarian
Pronunciation
IPA(key): [ˈhɒlː]
Rhymes: -ɒlː
Etymology 1
From the conflation of Proto-Uralic*kontale- (compare Old Hungarianhadl(“hear”), Northern Mansiхӯнтлуӈкве(hūntluňkwe), Finnishkuunnella) and Proto-Uralic*kule- (compare Northern Mansiхӯлуӈкве(hūluňkwe) and Finnishkuulla).
Verb
hall
(intransitive) to hear (to perceive sounds through the ear)
(transitive) to hear (to perceive with the ear)
Hallottam egy hangot a szobából. ― I heard a sound from the room.
Usage notes
This verb is a member of one of those (few) quasi-homonymous verb pairs that exist both with and without an -ik ending. All (intransitive) suffixed forms of these pairs are identical (sometimes they can even have derived forms that coincide), with the exception of their dictionary form (the third-person singular indicative present, with or without -ik). However, the meaning of these pairs is usually distinct, sometimes unrelated. Examples include (fel)áldoz–(le)áldozik, bán–bánik, (meg)bíz–(meg)bízik, ér–érik, esz(rare)–eszik, hajol–hajlik, (felül)múl–(el)múlik, (hozzá)nyúl–nyúlik, (el)vesz–(el)veszik~(el)vész, and tör–törik (along with their verbal prefixes), hall–hallik(archaic), érez–érzik(archaic), sometimes with some difference: (el)hibáz–hibádzik, (le)torkol–torkollik. Therefore one may well need to check the context and the arguments to ascertain which member of the verb pair is relevant.
Conjugation
Derived terms
(With verbal prefixes):
Etymology 2
Borrowed from GermanHalle.
Noun
hall (pluralhallok)
middle-sized, windowless room, entryway, hallway (in a private flat/apartment, with a size not smaller than 8 m² [86 sq ft], with space for people, but without affording them privacy due to its being an entry to other rooms)
lobby, foyer, lounge (e.g. in a hotel or an opera house)
Synonyms:társalgó, előcsarnok
Declension
Derived terms
References
Further reading
(to hear): hall in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
(entryway): hall in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
Ludian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic*halla, borrowed from Baltic. Cognates include Finnishhalla.
(architecture) lobby; entrance hall (room in a building used for entry from the outside)
Synonyms:átrio, entrada
Derived terms
hall da fama
Romanian
Noun
halln (pluralhalluri)
Obsolete form of hol.
Declension
References
hall in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN
Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Englishhall.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈxol/[ˈxol]
Rhymes: -ol
Noun
hallm (pluralhalls)
hall, lobby, lounge
Usage notes
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Further reading
“hall”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norsehǫll, from Proto-Germanic*hallō, from Proto-Indo-European*ḱel-. Compare Englishhall. Related to Latincella and Englishcellar.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /hal/
Noun
hallc
a hallway
a lounge
a corridor
an entryway
short for any of the words:
simhall
ishall
sporthall
verkstadshall
mässhall
Usage notes
Most commonly refers to a small room just inside the front door of a residential building, where shoes and outerwear are taken off or put on.