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Is mall a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word mall is a Scrabble US word. The word mall is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word mall is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

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4-letter words (1 found)

MALL,

3-letter words (3 found)

ALL,LAM,MAL,

2-letter words (4 found)

AL,AM,LA,MA,

You can make 8 words from mall according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of mall

mall amll mlal lmal alml laml mall amll mlal lmal alml laml mlla lmla mlla lmla llma llma allm lalm allm lalm llam llam

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word mall. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in mall.

Definitions and meaning of mall

mall

Etymology

Probably from The Mall, a major street in London, England, which was originally a pall mall alley.

Pronunciation

  • (UK)
    • (shopping centre) IPA(key): /mɔːl/
    • (other senses) IPA(key): /mæl/
    • Rhymes: -æl, Rhymes: -ɔːl
  • (General American, New England, General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /mɔːl/
    • Rhymes: -ɔːl
    • Homophone: maul
      • (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA(key): /mɑl/
        • Homophone: moll

Noun

mall (countable and uncountable, plural malls)

  1. (chiefly Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand) A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct. [from 20th c.]
  2. An enclosed shopping centre. [from 20th c.]
  3. (obsolete) An alley where the game of pall mall was played. [17th–19th c.]
  4. A public walk; a level shaded walk, a promenade. [from 18th c.]
  5. A heavy wooden mallet or hammer used in the game of pall mall. [from 17th c.]
  6. (obsolete) The game of polo. [17th c.]
  7. (obsolete) An old game played with malls or mallets and balls; pall mall. [17th–19th c.]

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Russian: молл (moll)

Translations

Verb

mall (third-person singular simple present malls, present participle malling, simple past and past participle malled)

  1. to beat with a mall, or mallet; to beat with something heavy; to bruise
  2. to build up with the development of shopping malls
  3. (informal) to shop at the mall

References

  • “mall”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  • “mall”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Albanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [maɫ]

Noun

mall m (plural malle, definite malli, definite plural mallet)

  1. Alternative form of mal (“mountain”)

Declension

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Turkish mal.

Noun

mall m (plural mallra, definite malli, definite plural mallrat)

  1. goods
    Synonym: çeshit
Declension

Etymology 2

From Proto-Albanian *melana, from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“black”), compare zi (“black, mourning, sadness”) and mallëngjej (“to touch emotionally, to move”). Alternatively from Proto-Albanian *malwa, close to Sanskrit मल्व (malvá, “foolish, thoughtless, unwise”), Middle Low German mall (“stupid, foolish”), West Frisian māl (“foolish, mad”). Alternatively, from Latin malum.

Noun

mall m (plural malle, definite malli, definite plural mallet)

  1. longing, missing, nostalgia
Declension

References

Breton

Noun

mall m

  1. haste

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin malleus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈmaʎ]
  • Rhymes: -aʎ

Noun

mall m (plural malls)

  1. hammer

Derived terms

  • mallar

Related terms

  • mal·leable
  • mal·lèol
  • mallol

Further reading

  • “mall” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Cebuano

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English mall.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmol/, [ˈmol̪]

Noun

mall

  1. mall; shopping center
  2. (by extension) department store

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish mall; see there.

Pronunciation

  • (Munster) IPA(key): /mˠɑul̪ˠ/
  • (Connacht) IPA(key): /mˠɑːl̪ˠ/ (Galway); IPA(key): /mˠal̪ˠ/ (Mayo)
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /mˠal̪ˠ/

Adjective

mall (genitive singular masculine mall, genitive singular feminine moille, plural malla, comparative moille)

  1. slow
    Ní fhanann trá le fear mall. ― An ebb does not wait for a slow man.

Declension

Mutation

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *malnos (“slow, lazy”), of uncertain derivation, but perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *mel- (“to be late, hesitate”) + *-nós; compare Ancient Greek μέλλω (méllō, “be late”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmal͈/

Adjective

mall (comparative mailliu, superlative maillem)

  1. slow
    • c. 700–800 Táin Bó Cúailnge, from the Yellow Book of Lecan, published in The Táin Bó Cúailnge from the Yellow Book of Lecan, with variant readings from the Lebor na hUidre (1912, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, and Co.), edited by John Strachan and James George O'Keeffe, TBC-I 3537
  2. tardy, late
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 5c5

Inflection

Derived terms

  • utmall

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: mall
    • Irish: mall
    • Manx: moal
    • Scottish Gaelic: mall

Mutation

References

Further reading

  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “mall”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English mall.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mol/

Noun

mall n (plural malluri)

  1. shopping mall, shopping centre

Declension

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish mall; see above.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /maul̪ˠ/, [mãʊ̃l̪ˠ]

Adjective

mall

  1. slow
  2. tardy, late
  3. lazy
  4. weak
  5. calm, placid
    feasgar mall 's na h-eòin a' seinn ― a calm evening and the birds warbling
  6. dull, senseless

Derived terms

  • luath no mall
  • ruigidh each mall muileann

Mutation

Further reading

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “mall”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[2], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • MacLennan, Malcolm (1925) A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Edinburgh: J. Grant, →OCLC

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmol/ [ˈmol]
  • Rhymes: -ol

Noun

mall m (plural malls)

  1. mall (shopping centre)

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmal/

Noun

mall c

  1. a template
    Synonym: schablon

Declension

Tagalog

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English mall.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmol/, [ˈmol]

Noun

mall (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓᜎ᜔)

  1. shopping mall; shopping center

Further reading

  • “mall”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

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