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mal

Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Malayalam or Malayalam മലയാളം (malayāḷaṁ).

Symbol

mal

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Malayalam.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Malayalam terms

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mæl/
• Rhymes: -æl

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French mal (“illness”). Doublet of malus.

Noun

mal (plural mals)

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

Derived terms

• (illness): grand mal, petit mal, mal de mer, mal du Suisse

Related terms

See also

• Mal

Etymology 2

Clipping of malibu.

Noun

mal (plural mals)

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

Derived terms

• mini-mal

Etymology 3

Clipping of malleolus.

Noun

mal (plural mals)

1. (medicine, informal) A malleolus.

Derived terms

See also

Anagrams

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

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch mal, from Middle Dutch mal.

Adjective

mal (attributive mal, comparative maller, superlative malste)

1. crazy

   Synonym: gek

Inflection

Derived terms

• malheid

Albanian

Alternative forms

• mall
• malj

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *mala, from Illyrian *mol-on. Vladimir Orel proposed Lithuanian malà (“land”) and Latvian mala (“bank, shore”) as cognates. Proto-Albanian *mal- reflecting an ancient Balkan toponym. Preserved in patroynms, ethnonym malësor (“highlander, mountaineer”), in toponym (historical and ethnographic region) Malësia (north Albania and Montenegro). In Kosovo (Malishevë, Gjilan, Mališevo, Prizren), in Serbia (Maleševo (Golubac), Maleševo (Rekovac)) and the name of Maleshevo Mountain (North Macedonia and Bulgaria). Gil'Ferding proposed Sanskrit मरु (marú, “wilderness, mountain, rock”) as a cognate. According to Michel Morvan a common pre-Indo-European substrate with Basque malda (“slope”) and malkor (“precipice”) (cf. pre-Indo-European geonymic root *mal (*mel, *mol), Tamil மலை (malai, “hill, mountain”) and Malayalam മല (mala, “id”)).

La Piana and Huld suggested Old English molda (“forehead”) and Sanskrit मूर्धन् (mūrdhan, “head, top, summit”), both derived from Proto-Indo-European *ml̥Hdʰṓ. Also connected to Ancient Greek *μλωθρός (*mlōthrós), μέλαθρον (mélathron, “ridgepole”), βλαστάνω (blastánō, “to sprout, grow”). Compare also Ancient Greek βλωθρός (blōthrós, “lofty”), Avestan 𐬐𐬀-𐬨𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬜𐬋 (ka-mər^əδō, “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 (plural male, definite mali, definite plural malet)

1. mount

   Mali i Korabit ― Mount Korab

2. mountain

   Synonym: bjeshkë

3. (Gheg) forest
4. large amount of something

   Kam marrë një mal me letra. ― I've received a lot of papers.

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

• majë

Descendants

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

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

Cognate to Daco-Romanian mal. From Proto-Albanian *mala (“mountain”) (Albanian mal). Proto-Albanian *mal- reflecting an ancient Balkan toponym. See Albanian mal (“mountain”) for more.

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

   Synonyms: məhsul, (formal) əmtəə

   Çindən gətirilən mallar ― goods imported from China

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

   Synonym: inək

6. beef (mostly in combination with ət (“meat”))

   mal əti ― beef

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

   Nə var, mal kimi durmusan orada? ― Don't stand there like an idiot!

8. (colloquial, derogatory, by extension) a well-fed, plump woman

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• “mal” in Obastan.com.

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 (mā), 𑜉𑜡𑜠 (māa), Zhuang maz.

Verb

mal

1. to come

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Proto-Tai *ʰmaːᴬ (“dog”). Cognate with Thai หมา, 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

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmal]
• Rhymes: -al

Etymology 1

From Old Catalan mal, from Latin malus.

Noun

mal m (plural mals)

1. evil, bad

   Antonym: bé

2. illness

   Synonym: malaltia

Derived terms

Related terms

• malícia

Etymology 2

From Old Catalan mal, from Latin male.

Adverb

mal

1. badly, poorly

   Synonym: malament

   Antonym: bé

Derived terms

• anar a mal borràs
• malestar
• prendre mal

Adjective

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

1. bad, poor

   Synonym: dolent

   Antonym: bo

Derived terms

• a males
• mala herba
• malament

Further reading

• “mal”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], 2007 April
• “mal”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “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

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mal, apocopic form of malo (“evil”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmal/ [ˈmal̪]

Noun

mal

1. (billiards) a foul

Verb

mal

1. (billiards) to commit a foul

Cimbrian

Etymology

From Middle High German māl, from Old High German māl, from Proto-West Germanic *māl, from Proto-Germanic *mēlą (“measurement; time; meal”). Cognate with German Mal, Mahl, English meal.

Noun

mal n

1. (Luserna) meal

Related terms

• malzait

References

• “mal” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

From Arabic مال (māl, “property”).

Noun

mal

1. article, product
2. cattle, livestocks

Declension

References

• “mal”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

Dalmatian

Alternative forms

• mul

Etymology

From Latin malus.

Noun

mal

1. evil, harm

Danish

Verb

mal

1. imperative of male

Dutch

Etymology 1

First attested in the seventeenth century. Ultimately derived from Old French modle, an old (11th century) borrowing from Latin modulus (“measure”). Doublet of module and modulus.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑl
• IPA^(key): /mɑl/

Noun

mal f (plural mallen, diminutive malletje n)

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

Descendants

• → Papiamentu: malchi, maltsje (from the diminutive)

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch mal, of uncertain origin. Cognate with German malle. Possibly related to French mal (“bad”) or Dutch malen (“to grind, crush”) in the sense "broken, twisted."

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.

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: mal

Further reading

• van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “mal1”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

Anagrams

• lam

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mal/

Etymology 1

From Old French mal, from Latin malus, possibly derived from Proto-Indo-European *(s)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, misère, difficulté

   J'ai du mal à m'imaginer ça. ― I have trouble imagining that.

2. pain

   Synonym: douleur

   J'ai mal à la tête. ― I have a headache. (literally, “I have pain at the head.”)
3. evil

   Le philosophe abordait de grandes questions du bon et du mal. ― The philosopher discussed broad questions of good and evil.

4. damage, harm

   Synonyms: tort, dommage

   Le mal est fait. ― The damage is done.

Derived terms

Related terms

• malice

Descendants

• → English: mal

Etymology 2

From Old French, from Latin male.

Adverb

mal

1. badly

   C'est mal fait. ― It's done badly.

Adjective

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

1. (in set phrases and limited constructions) bad

   bon an, mal an ― good year, bad year

   bon gré, mal gré ― willy-nilly (literally, “good will, bad will”)

   Il est mal de [infinitive] ― It’s wrong to [infinitive]

   C'est mal de [infinitive] ― It’s wrong to [infinitive]

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

Further reading

• “mal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• AML

Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmal/ [ˈmɑɫ]
• Rhymes: -al
• Hyphenation: mal

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese mal, from Latin male.

Adverb

mal

1. badly

   Antonym: ben

Etymology 2

From Old Galician-Portuguese mal, from Latin malum.

Noun

mal m (plural males)

1. misfortune
2. bad; evil
3. sickness; disease

Etymology 3

Adjective

mal m sg

1. (before the noun) apocopic form of malo

Etymology 4

Attested since circa 1300 (máále), from Latin manualis (“manual”). Cognate with Portuguese mangual.

Alternative forms

• malle, mallo, manle, manlle

Noun

mal m (plural males)

1. flail
2. handle of the flail

   Synonyms: mango, mangueira, moca

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “mal”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “maal”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “mal”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “mal”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “mal”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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 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. singular imperative of malen
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of malen

Further reading

• “mal (Adverb)” in Duden online
• “mal (Konjunktion)” in Duden online
• “mal (Partikel)” in Duden online
• “mal” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese mal. Cognate with Kabuverdianu mal.

Adjective

mal

1. bad

Related terms

• mau

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

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmal]
• Hyphenation: mal

Etymology 1

From Malay mal.

Noun

mal (plural mal-mal)

1. head

   Synonym: kepala

2. top (of kris)

   Synonym: ganja

3. bottom (of a blade)

   Synonym: pangkal

Etymology 2

From Malay mal, from Arabic مَال (māl).

Noun

mal (plural mal-mal)

1. treasure

   Synonyms: khazanah, harta benda

2. synonym of dana

Etymology 3

From Dutch mal (“mold, cast”), from Old French modle, from Latin modulus (“measure”). Doublet of modulus.

Noun

mal (plural mal-mal)

1. mold, cast

   Synonyms: acuan, cetakan

2. pattern

   Synonym: pola

Etymology 4

From English mall.

Noun

mal (plural mal-mal)

1. shopping centre, mall

   Synonyms: plaza, pusat perbelanjaan

Further reading

• “mal” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

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 (apocopated)

1. apocopic form of male

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese mal.

Adjective

mal

1. bad

Related terms

• mau

Latvian

Verb

mal

1. inflection of malt:
   1. second-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Lombard

Etymology

Akin to Italian male, from Latin malus.

Adjective

mal

1. bad

Mangas

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /māl/

Noun

mal

1. heart

References

• Blench, Robert; Bulkaam, Michael (2021) An Introduction to Mantsi, a South Bauchi language of Central Nigeria. University of Cambridge.

Middle English

Noun

mal

1. alternative form of male

Adjective

mal

1. alternative form of male

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French mal.

Noun

mal m (plural maulx)

1. bad act

Descendants

• French: mal
  • → English: mal

Adjective

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

1. bad; evil

Descendants

• French: mal

Adverb

mal

1. evilly; badly; poorly

Descendants

• French: mal

Middle Welsh

Noun

mal

1. tax

Miraya Bikol

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay mahal. Compare Bikol Central mahal and Tagalog mahal.

Adjective

mal

1. expensive

   Antonym: barato

Norman

Etymology

From Old French mal, from Latin male.

Adverb

mal

1. (Guernsey) badly

Adjective

mal

1. (Guernsey) bad

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *dmáHnaH.

Noun

mal f

1. home
2. family, dynasty, house

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.

Old English

Alternative forms

• maal

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *mailą.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɑːl/

Noun

māl n

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

Declension

Strong a-stem:

Descendants

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

Etymology 2

Noun

māl n

1. a suit, legal case, prosecution, defense

Derived terms

• friþmāl
• wiþermāl

References

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “mál”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Old French

Etymology 1

From Latin male.

Adverb

mal

1. evilly
2. badly; poorly

Descendants

• Middle French: mal
  • French: mal
    • → English: mal

Etymology 2

From Latin malus.

Noun

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

1. evil
2. pain, suffering

Descendants

• Middle French: mal
  • French: mal
    • → English: mal

Adjective

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

1. bad (undesirable; not good)

Descendants

• Middle French: mal
  • French: mal
    • → English: mal

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin male (“badly; wrongly”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmal/
• Rhymes: -al

Adverb

mal

1. badly

Descendants

• Fala: mal
• Galician: mal
• Portuguese: mal (see there for further descendants)

Old Occitan

Etymology

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

Adjective

mal

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

Descendants

• Occitan: mal

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “malus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 6/1: Mabile–Mephitis, pages 123–128

Phalura

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mal/

Noun

mal f (Perso-Arabic spelling مل)

1. goats

Inflection

i-decl (Obl): -í

References

• Henrik Liljegren, Naseem Haider (2011) “mal”, in Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)‎^[4], Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Homophone: mau (Brazil)
• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: mal

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

• mar (eye dialect spelling, representing Caipira Portuguese)

Adverb

mal (comparable, comparative pior)

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

   mal-assombrado ― haunted (literally, “evilly-shadowed”)

   mal-agourado ― cursed (literally, “evilly-foreboded”)

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:mal.

Synonyms

• mamente, malmente

Conjunction

mal

1. have/had just; have/had barely

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:mal.

Etymology 2

From Latin malus. Compare Italian male, Sicilian mali.

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 using this term, see Citations:mal.

Synonyms

• (sickness or syndrome): maladia

Derived terms

Related terms

Adjective

mal

1. (Brazil) misspelling of mau

Descendants

• Guinea-Bissau Creole: mal
• Kabuverdianu: mal

Romanian

Etymology

Cognate to Aromanian mal and meal. From Proto-Albanian *mala (“mountain”) (Standard Albanian mal). See Albanian mal (“mountain”) for more. On account of the name of the Roman province of Dacia Malvensis, along the Olt and Jiu rivers, it may have already possessed the sense of "riverbank" in Dacian.

Noun

mal n (plural maluri)

1. shore
2. riverbank

Declension

References

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mâːl/

Adjective

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

1. small

Declension

Related terms

• màlen

Further reading

• “mal”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mal]

Participle

mal

1. masculine singular l-participle of mať

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmal/ [ˈmal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: mal

Etymology 1

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

Adjective

mal m (apocopate, standard form malo)

1. (before the noun) apocopic form of malo bad; evil
2. amiss, awry, off, wrong

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, ill

2. awry, amiss, wrong, wrongly

3. hard (functions as an adverb in Spanish but translates as an adjective in English)

Derived terms

Noun

mal m (plural males)

1. evil, harm; a bad thing or situation

   de mal en peor ― from bad to worse

2. disease, illness, ailment

3. worse (substantive)

   para bien o para mal ― for better or for worse

Derived terms

Further reading

• “mal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɑːl/
• Rhymes: -ɑːl

Etymology 1

From Old Norse mǫlr, from Proto-Germanic *malwan, from Proto-Indo-European *molH-(y)o-. See also Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌻𐍉 (malō) and German Milbe.

Noun

mal c

2. moth
4. wels catfish, Silurus glanis

Declension

See also

• fjäril c
• larv c
• nattfjäril c

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

mal

1. inflection of mala:
   1. imperative
   2. present indicative

References

• mal in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• mal in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• mal in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• LMA, alm, lam

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish مال (mal), from Arabic مَال (māl, “property”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

mal (definite accusative malı, plural mallar or (dated) emval)

1. cattle
2. goods, property
3. asset
4. (economy) merchandise
5. (law) goods, commodity
6. (colloquial, derogatory) (no equivalent expression; likely) an expendable or ignorable stupid and annoying person, douche, prick
7. (slang, vulgar) a prostitute
8. (slang) heroin

Declension

Related terms

• emval

Further reading

• “mal”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu

West Albay Bikol

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay mahal. Compare Bikol Central mahal and Tagalog mahal.

Adjective

mal

1. expensive

   Antonym: barato

Woleaian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɾ/

Noun

mal

1. bird

Zou

Noun

mal

1. thigh

References

• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 45

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