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mall

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English

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A mall (shopping center).

Etymology

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

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Noun

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mall (countable and uncountable, plural malls)

  1. (chiefly Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand) A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct. [from 20th c.]
    • 1950 August 15, Philip Hampson, “Field's Plans 15 to 20 Million Shopping Center for Skokie”, in Chicago Daily Tribune‎[1], page 1:
      The preliminary plans provide for one million square feet of selling space in three main buildings and a double row of shops along a central shopping mall.
    • 2002, Alexander Garvin, The American City: What Works, What Doesn′t, page 179:
      America′s first pedestrianized shopping mall opened in 1959 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Like most later pedestrian malls, it was intended to revive what everybody thought was a decaying downtown.
  2. An enclosed shopping centre. [from 20th c.]
    • 2004, Ralph E. Warner, Get a Life: You Don′t Need a Million to Retire Well, unnumbered page:
      Every day, at about the time the rest of us go to work, groups of retirees gather at many of America′s enclosed shopping malls.
  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.]
    • 1820, Robert Southey, The Life of Wesley; and Rise and Progress of Methodism:
      Part of the area was laid out in gravel walks, and planted with elms; and these convenient and frequented walks obtained the name of the City Mall.
  5. A heavy wooden mallet or hammer used in the game of pall mall. [from 17th c.]
    • 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner:
      I also fell slightly; but his fall proving a severe one, he arose in wrath, and struck me with the mall which he held in his hand, until my blood flowed copiously […]
  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.]
    • 1675, Charles Cotton, Burlesque upon Burlesque:
      But playing with the Boy ar Mall,
      (I rue the Time, and ever shall)
      I struck the Ball, I know not how

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Descendants

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  • → Russian: молл (moll)

Translations

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old game played with malls or mallets and balls — see pall mall

Verb

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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

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Albanian

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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

  1. Alternative form of mal (“mountain”)

Declension

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Declension of mall
indefinite definite
singular plural singular plural
nominative mall malle malli mallet
accusative mallin
dative malli malleve mallit malleve
ablative mallesh

Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Turkish mal.

Noun

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

  1. goods
    Synonym: çeshit
Declension
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Declension of mall
indefinite definite
singular plural singular plural
nominative mall mallra malli mallrat
accusative mallin
dative malli mallrave mallit mallrave
ablative mallrash

Etymology 2

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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.[1] [2]

Noun

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

  1. longing, missing, nostalgia
Declension
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Declension of mall
indefinite definite
singular plural singular plural
nominative mall malle malli mallet
accusative mallin
dative malli malleve mallit malleve
ablative mallesh

References

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  1. ^ R. Trofenik, Zeitschrift für Balkanologie, 1980, page 36
  2. ^ Eqrem Çabej, Studime gjuhësore: Hyrje në historinë e gjuhës shqipe. Fonetika historike. Parashtesat, Rilindja, 1976, page 117

Breton

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mall m

  1. haste

Catalan

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin malleus.

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mall m (plural malls)

  1. hammer

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Cebuano

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English mall.

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mall

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

Irish

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Etymology

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From Old Irish mall; see there.

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Adjective

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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

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Declension of mall
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative mall mhall malla;
mhalla²
Vocative mhall malla
Genitive moille malla mall
Dative mall;
mhall¹ 		mhall;
mhall (archaic) 		malla;
mhalla²
Comparative níos moille
Superlative is moille

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
mall mhall not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Old Irish

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Etymology

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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”).[1]

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Adjective

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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
      Nirbo mailli[u] do·lotar olmbátar in charpait.
      [The men] who arrived [on foot] were no slower than the men on chariots.
  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
      Dos·n-icfa cobir, cid mall. Bith maith immurgu intain dond·iccfa.
      Help will come, although it may be slow to do so. [The help] will be good, however, when it does arrive.

Inflection

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o/ā-stem
Singular Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative mall mall mall
Vocative maill*
mall**
Accusative mall maill
Genitive maill maille maill
Dative maull maill maull
Plural Masculine Feminine/neuter
Nominative maill malla
Vocative mallu
malla†
Accusative mallu
malla†
Genitive mall
Dative mallaib
Notes *modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative

**modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative
† not when substantivized

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Descendants

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Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
mall
also mmall after a proclitic
ending in a vowel 		mall
pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/ 		unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*mallo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 254

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English mall.

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Noun

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mall n (plural malluri)

  1. shopping mall, shopping centre

Declension

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Declension of mall
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) mall mallul (niște) malluri mallurile
genitive/dative (unui) mall mallului (unor) malluri mallurilor
vocative mallule mallurilor

Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From Old Irish mall; see above.

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  • IPA(key): /maul̪ˠ/, [mãʊ̃l̪ˠ]

Adjective

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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

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Mutation

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Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
mall mhall
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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  • 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

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English.

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mall m (plural malls)

  1. mall (shopping centre)

Swedish

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mall c

  1. a template
    Synonym: schablon

Declension

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Declension of mall 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative mall mallen mallar mallarna
Genitive malls mallens mallars mallarnas

Tagalog

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English mall. Used due to Tagalog-English code-switching (Taglish).

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mall (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓᜎ᜔)

  1. shopping mall; shopping center

Further reading

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