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5-letter words (1 found)

MALVA,

4-letter words (6 found)

ALMA,AMLA,AVAL,LAMA,LAVA,MALA,

3-letter words (8 found)

AAL,ALA,AMA,AVA,LAM,LAV,MAA,MAL,

2-letter words (5 found)

AA,AL,AM,LA,MA,

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All 5 letters words made out of malva

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Definitions and meaning of malva

malva

Etymology

From the genus name, or in some Spanish or Portuguese contexts, from the Spanish or Portuguese word.

Noun

malva (plural malvas)

  1. Any plant of the genus Malva, a mallow.

Related terms

  • malva pudding

References

  • “malva”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin malva.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central) [ˈmal.βə]
  • IPA(key): (Balearic) [ˈmal.və]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [ˈmal.va]

Noun

malva f (plural malves)

  1. mallow
  2. mauve

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “malva” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “malva”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
  • “malva” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “malva” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmalva]
  • Rhymes: -alva
  • Hyphenation: mal‧va

Adjective

malva (accusative singular malvan, plural malvaj, accusative plural malvajn)

  1. mauve colored
  2. related to a mallow plant

Related terms

  • malvo (mauve)

Finnish

Etymology

From Latin malva.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɑlʋɑ/, [ˈmɑ̝lʋɑ̝]
  • Rhymes: -ɑlʋɑ
  • Syllabification(key): mal‧va

Noun

malva

  1. mallow (flowering plant in the taxonomic family Malvaceae, especially in the genus Malva)

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • malva”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

Anagrams

  • Valma

Galician

Etymology 1

From Latin malva.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmalβɐ]

Noun

malva f (plural malvas)

  1. mallow (any plant of the family Malvaceae)

References

  • “malva” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “malva” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “malva” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Etymology 2

Verb

malva

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

Italian

Etymology

From Latin malva, of Semitic origin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmal.va/
  • Rhymes: -alva
  • Hyphenation: màl‧va

Noun

malva f (plural malve)

  1. mallow (plant)

Noun

malva m (invariable)

  1. mauve

Adjective

malva (invariable)

  1. mauve

Related terms

  • malvone / malvarosa

Latin

Etymology

Unknown, but likely a substrate word related to Ancient Greek μαλάχη (malákhē). Compare also Middle Armenian բաղբակ (baġbak) and Georgian ბალბა (balba, mallow).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmal.u̯a/, [ˈmäɫ̪u̯ä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmal.va/, [ˈmälvä]

Noun

malva f (genitive malvae); first declension

  1. mallow

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

  • malvāceus

Descendants

References

  • malva”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • malva”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • malva in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • malva”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin malva.

Pronunciation

Noun

malva f (plural malvas)

  1. mallow

Dialectal variants

  • mauva (Gascon, Provençal, vivaro-alpine, Limousin)

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin malva, of Semitic origin.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -alvɐ, -awvɐ
  • Hyphenation: mal‧va

Noun

malva f (plural malvas)

  1. mallow (any plant of the family Malvaceae)

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin malva, of Semitic origin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmalba/ [ˈmal.β̞a]
  • Rhymes: -alba
  • Syllabification: mal‧va

Noun

malva f (plural malvas)

  1. mallow
  2. mauve (color)

Derived terms

Adjective

malva m or f (masculine and feminine plural malvas)

  1. mauve (color)

Further reading

  • “malva”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swedish

Noun

malva c

  1. mallow

Derived terms

  • läkemalva
  • praktmalva
  • malvaväxter

Source: wiktionary.org