Mal in Scrabble Dictionary

Valid words made from Mal

You can make 6 words from 'mal' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

• 3 letters words from 'mal'
• 2 letters words from 'mal'

3 letters words from 'mal'

LAM 5

MAL 5

2 letters words from 'mal'

AL 2	AM 4
LA 2	MA 4

Definitions and meaning of mal

mal

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French mal (“illness”).

Noun

mal (plural mals)

1. (only in set phrases) illness, affliction.

Derived terms

• (illness): grand mal

See also

• malicious
• Mal

Etymology 2

Shortening of malibu.

Noun

mal (plural mals)

1. (surfing) A longboard (type of surfboard).

Etymology 3

Noun

mal (plural mals)

1. (medicine, colloquial) Malleolus.

   lateral mal

Anagrams

• ALM, AML, LAM, Lam, Lam., M.L.A., MLA, lam

---

Albanian

Alternative forms

• mall
• malj

Etymology

• Illyrian origin, from Proto-Albanian *mola, from Illyrian *mol-on (as in the ethnonym Molossian and toponyms Dimallum, Malontum, Malontina and Malesheva) as a substrate (compare also Daco-Romanian mal (“shore”) and Aromanian mal (“shore”)).
• with a common substrate with Basque malda (“slope”) and malkor (“precipice”).
• alternative etymology: from Proto-Albanian *mala, from Proto-Indo-European *ml̥Hdʰo- (compare Old English molda (“forehead”), Ancient Greek βλωθρός (blōthrós, “lofty”), Avestan 𐬐𐬀-𐬨𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬜𐬋‎ (ka-mərəδō, “demon's head”)) with a semantic development from ‘head’ > ‘summit’ (compare malë (“tongue tip, tree top”)) > ‘mountain’.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mal/ (Standard, Tosk)

Noun

mal m (indefinite plural male, definite singular mali, definite plural malet)

1. mount
2. mountain

   Synonym: bjeshkë

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

• Aromanian: mal, meal
• Romanian: mal (“shore”)

Related terms

• majë

References

---

Aleut

Pronunciation

• (Western) IPA^(key): /ˈmal/

Verb

mal

1. to do

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

---

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• malu

Etymology

From Albanian mal (“mountain”), cognate to Daco-Romanian mal.

Noun

mal

1. shore
2. pile, heap

Related terms

• meal

References

---

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Arabic مَال‎ (māl, “property”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mɑɫ]

Noun

mal (definite accusative malı, plural mallar)

1. property

   Synonym: əmlak

2. goods, ware, commodity, product

   Synonym: məhsul

3. (colloquial) cargo
4. cattle, livestock
5. cow

   Synonym: inək

6. (colloquial, by extension) a dumb, dull person; an idiot

7. (colloquial, vulgar, by extension) a well-fed, plump woman

Declension

---

Bouyei

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma˨˦/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Tai *ʰmaːᴬ (“to come”). Cognate with Thai มา (maa), Northern Thai ᨾᩣ (ma), Lao ມາ (mā), Lü ᦙᦱ (maa), Ahom 𑜉𑜠 (ma), 𑜉𑜡 (maa), 𑜉𑜡𑜠 (maaa), Zhuang maz.

Verb

mal

1. to come

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Proto-Tai *ʰmaːᴬ (“dog”). Cognate with Thai หมา (mǎa), Lao ໝາ (mā), Lü ᦖᦱ (ṁaa), Shan မႃ (mǎa), Zhuang ma.

Noun

mal

1. dog

Synonyms

• duezmal

Derived terms

---

Cara

Noun

mal

1. water

References

• R. Blench, The Rukul language of Central Nigeria and its affinities (2006) (mentions this word in notes)

---

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈmal/
• Rhymes: -al

Etymology 1

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin malus.

Noun

mal m (plural mals)

1. evil, bad

   Antonym: bé

2. illness

   Synonym: malaltia

Related terms

• malícia

Etymology 2

From Old Occitan mal, from Latin male.

Adverb

mal

1. badly, poorly

   Synonym: malament

   Antonym: bé

Derived terms

• malestar

Adjective

mal (feminine mala, masculine plural mals, feminine plural males)

1. bad, poor

   Synonym: dolent

   Antonym: bo

Derived terms

• malament

Further reading

• “mal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “mal” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “mal” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “mal” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

---

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: mal

Noun

mal

1. (billiards) a foul

Verb

mal

1. (billiards) to commit a foul

---

Dalmatian

Alternative forms

• mul

Etymology

From Latin malus.

Noun

mal

1. evil, harm

---

Danish

Verb

mal

1. imperative of male

---

Dutch

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑl
• IPA^(key): /mɑl/

Noun

mal f (plural mallen, diminutive malletje n)

1. mold, cast (device to help creating shapes)

Adjective

mal (comparative maller, superlative malst)

1. foolish, crazy, lacking common sense

Usage notes

The adjective mal always refers to an aspect of a thing or person. It is the adjective form of the noun mallerd. For other senses, dwaas, dom and gek are used.

Inflection

Derived terms

• mallerd

Anagrams

• lam

---

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mal/

Etymology 1

From Old French mal, from Latin malus, possibly derived from Proto-Indo-European *mel- (“bad, wrong”). Near cognates include Portuguese mal, Italian male and Spanish malo.

Noun

mal m (plural maux)

1. (as in the phrase: avoir du mal) trouble, difficulty

   Synonyms: problème, emmerde

2. pain
3. evil

Derived terms

• mal de l'air
• mal de débarquement
• mal de mer
• mal du pays

Related terms

• malice

Etymology 2

From Old French, from Latin male.

Adverb

mal

1. badly

Adjective

mal (feminine singular male, masculine plural maux, feminine plural males)

1. (in set phrases and limited constructions) bad

Synonyms

• mauvais
• méchant
• vilain
• laid
• merdique (vulgar slang)

See also

• pas mal
• malade
• maladie
• malaise
• mal-aimé
• maladroit
• malheur
• malfaisant

Anagrams

• AML

Further reading

• “mal” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

---

Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmal/

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese mal, from Latin male.

Adverb

mal

1. badly

Antonyms

• ben

Etymology 2

From Latin malum.

Noun

mal m (plural males)

1. misfortune
2. bad; evil
3. sickness

Etymology 3

Adjective

mal m sg

1. (before the noun) Apocopic form of malo

Etymology 4

1474. From former maal, from Latin manualis (“manual”). Cognate with Portuguese mangual. Alternative forms include malle, manle, manlle, mallo.

Noun

mal m (plural males)

1. flail
   • 1474, Antonio López Ferreiro (ed.), Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 67:

     Iten, preçaron hun maal en tres maravedis

     Item, they appraised a flail in three coins

2. handle of the flail

   Synonyms: mango, mangueira, moca

References

• “mal” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “maal” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “mal” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “mal” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “mal” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

---

German

Etymology

From the noun Mal (“time”). Partly shortened from einmal, which is also derived from the noun.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maːl/ (standard)
• IPA^(key): /ma/ (colloquial)
• Homophones: Mahl, Mal, mahl
• Rhymes: -aːl

Adverb

mal

1. times (indicating multiplication of two numbers)

2. (informal) Alternative form of einmal (“sometime, ever, once”), may serve to introduce a new information.

3. (informal) Softening a sentence, thus making a request or command more polite. By extension, indicating a command or request.

Derived terms

• Malrechnung
• schon mal (schomma)

Verb

mal

1. Imperative singular of malen.
2. (colloquial) First-person singular present of malen.

Further reading

• mal in Duden online

---

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese mal. Cognates with Kabuverdianu mal.

Adjective

mal

1. bad

---

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [maːl]
• Rhymes: -aːl

Etymology 1

From mala (“to purr”).

Noun

mal n (genitive singular mals, no plural)

1. purr

Declension

Etymology 2

See malur.

Noun

mal

1. indefinite accusative singular of malur

---

Interlingua

Etymology

From Latin malus.

Adjective

mal (comparative plus mal, superlative le plus mal)

1. bad
2. evil

Adverb

mal (comparative plus mal, superlative le plus mal)

1. badly, poorly
2. wrongfully

Noun

mal (plural males)

1. bad, badness, something bad
2. evil
3. illness
4. pain, ache

---

Italian

Noun

mal m (invariable)

1. Apocopic form of male

---

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese mal.

Adjective

mal

1. bad

---

Kurdish

Noun

mal f

1. home, house

---

Latvian

Verb

mal

1. 2nd person singular present indicative form of malt
2. 2nd person singular imperative form of malt

---

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French mal.

Noun

mal m (plural maulx)

1. bad act

Descendants

• French: mal

Adjective

mal m (feminine singular male or malle, masculine plural maulx, feminine plural males or malles)

1. bad; evil

Descendants

• French: mal

---

Middle Welsh

Noun

mal

1. tax

---

Norman

Etymology

From Old French mal, from Latin male.

Adverb

mal

1. (Guernsey) badly

Adjective

mal

1. (Guernsey) bad

---

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Dutch mal.

Noun

mal m (definite singular malen, indefinite plural maler, definite plural malene)

1. a template

Etymology 2

Verb

mal

1. imperative of male

References

• “mal” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

---

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Dutch mal.

Noun

mal m (definite singular malen, indefinite plural malar, definite plural malane)

1. a template

Etymology 2

Verb

mal

1. imperative of mala

References

• “mal” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

---

Novial

Adjective

mal

1. bad

---

Old English

Alternative forms

• maal

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *mailą.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɑːl/

Noun

māl n

1. mole (spot on the skin)
2. mark, spot

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: mal, mole, mool
  • English: mole
  • Scots: mail, mold

---

Old French

Etymology 1

From Latin male.

Adverb

mal

1. evilly
2. badly; poorly

Descendants

• Middle French: mal
  • French: mal

Etymology 2

From Latin malus.

Noun

mal m (oblique plural maus or max or mals, nominative singular maus or max or mals, nominative plural mal)

1. evil
2. pain, suffering

Adjective

mal m (oblique and nominative feminine singular male, comparative peior, superlative peior)

1. bad (undesirable; not good)

Descendants

• Middle French: mal
  • French: mal

---

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Latin malus. Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French mal.

Adjective

mal

1. bad (negative)
2. bad (evil)

Descendants

• Catalan: mal
• Occitan: mal

References

• von Wartburg, Walther (1928-2002), “malus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German)

---

Old Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin male (“badly; wrongly”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmal/

Adverb

mal

1. badly

Descendants

• Fala: mal
• Galician: mal
• Portuguese: mal

---

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /maw/
  • Homophone: mau
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmaɫ/
• Rhymes: -aw

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese mal, from Latin male (“badly; wrongly”).

Adverb

mal (comparatives mais mal, pior superlative o mais mal)

1. badly (in a faulty, dysfunctional or incorrect manner)

2. (preceding verbs) hardly; barely

3. wrong (incorrect)

4. unfavourably (in an unfavourable manner)

5. (in compounds) evilly

Quotations

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:mal.

Synonyms

• malamente, malmente

Conjunction

mal

1. have/had just; have/had barely

Quotations

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:mal.

Etymology 2

From Latin malus.

Noun

mal m (plural males)

1. (uncountable) evil (malevolent forces or behaviour)

2. harm

3. malady (any ailment or disease, especially a lingering one)

Quotations

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:mal.

Synonyms

• (sickness or syndrome): maladia

Derived terms

Related terms

Adjective

mal

1. (Brazil) Misspelling of mau.

---

Romanian

Etymology

From Albanian mal. Cognate to Aromanian mal and meal.

Noun

mal n (plural maluri)

1. shore

Declension

References

---

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *malъ, from Proto-Indo-European *moh₁los.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mâːl/

Adjective

mȃl (definite mȃlī, comparative mȁnjī, Cyrillic spelling ма̑л)

1. small

Declension

Related terms

• màlen

---

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mäl], /mal/
• Rhymes: -al

Etymology 1

Apocopic form of malo, from Latin malus, possibly derived from Proto-Indo-European *mel- (“bad, wrong”).

Adjective

mal m (apocopate, standard form malo)

1. (before the noun) Apocopic form of malo bad; evil

Usage notes

• Mal is only used before a masculine singular noun. In other positions, malo is used instead.

Derived terms

Related terms

• maleza
• malicia

Etymology 2

From Latin male.

Adverb

mal (comparative peor)

1. badly; poorly

Derived terms

Noun

mal m (plural males)

1. evil, harm; a bad thing or situation

2. disease, illness, ailment

   ... le curaremos, si es que su mal tiene cura... — “... we shall cure him, if his ailment has a cure...” - Cervantes. Quijote, ch. 23

Derived terms

---

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑːl/

Noun

mal c

1. moth
2. wels catfish (Silurus glanis)

Declension

See also

• fjäril c
• larv c

Verb

mal

1. imperative of mala.
2. present tense of mala.

Related terms

• malström

Anagrams

• alm, lam

---

Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic مَال‎ (māl, “property”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑɫ/
• Hyphenation: mal

Noun

mal (definite accusative malı, plural mallar)

1. goods, property
2. asset
3. (economy) merchandise
4. (law) goods, commodity
5. (colloquial, derogatory) a stupid and annoying person, douche, prick
6. (slang, vulgar) a prostitute
7. (slang) heroin

Declension

Descendants

• → Albanian: mall

Further reading

• mal in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu

---

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse mǫrðr, from Proto-Germanic *marþuz.

Noun

mal m

1. marten (mammal)

---

Zou

Noun

mal

1. thigh

References

• http://www.languageinindia.com/feb2013/zouphonologyfinal.pdf

Source: wiktionary.org

• (French) pain, sickness.
  (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)

Live Currency Calculator Click Here!