mal

Borrowed from French mal (“illness”).

mal (plural mals)

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

   a grand mal seizure

• (illness): grand mal

• malicious
• Mal

Shortening of malibu.

mal (plural mals)

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

mal (plural mals)

1. (medicine, colloquial) Malleolus.

   lateral mal

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

• mall
• malj

Uncertain. There have been several hypotheses, including:

• Illyrian origin, 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”)).
• 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’.
• A common substrate with Basque malda (“slope”) and malkor (“precipice”).[1]

• IPA^(key): [mal]

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

1. mount
2. mountain

• majë

From Arabic مَال‎ (māl, “property”).

• IPA^(key): [mɑɫ]

mal (definite accusative malı, plural mallar)

1. property

   Synonym: əmlak

2. goods, ware, commodity, product

   Çindən gətirilən mallar ― goods imported from China

   Synonym: məhsul

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

   Synonym: inək

   mal əti ― beef

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

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

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

• (Western) IPA^(key): /ˈmal/

mal

1. to do

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

• malu

Possibly from Albanian mal or related to it as a paleo-Balkanic substrate term. Compare Daco-Romanian mal.

mal

1. shore
2. pile, heap

• meal

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.

mal

1. to come

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

mal

1. dog

• duezmal

mal

1. water

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

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

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

mal m (plural mals)

1. evil, bad

   Antonym: bé

2. illness

   Synonym: malaltia

• malícia

From Old Occitan mal, from Latin male.

mal

1. badly, poorly

   Synonym: malament

   Antonym: bé

• malestar

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

1. bad, poor

   Synonym: dolent

   Antonym: bo

• malament

• “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.

• Hyphenation: mal

mal

1. (billiards) a foul

mal

1. (billiards) to commit a foul

• mul

From Latin malus.

mal

1. evil, harm

mal

1. imperative of male

• Rhymes: -ɑl

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• IPA^(key): /mɑl/

mal f (plural mallen, diminutive malletje n)

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

mal (comparative maller, superlative malst)

1. foolish, crazy, lacking common sense

The adjective mal always refers to an aspect of a thing or person. It is the adjective form of the noun mallerd.

• mallerd

• lam

• IPA^(key): /mal/

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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.

mal m (plural maux)

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

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

   Synonyms: problème, emmerde

2. pain

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

   • 1986, “Il était une fois … une maison des musiciens [There Once Was… a House of Musicians]”, in Il était une fois … une petite grenouille [There Once Was… a Little Frog] (fiction), Paris: CLE International:

     Aïe, j'ai mal au bras !
     Ouille, j'ai mal aux dents! Et toi, le lit, tu n'as pas mal aux pieds ?
     Non, mais j'ai mal à la tête.
     Moi, j'ai mal aux oreilles !

     Argh, my head hurts!
     Oww, my teeth hurt! How about you, bed, don't your legs hurt?
     No, it's my head that hurts.
     As for me, my ears hurt!

3. evil

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

• malice

From Old French, from Latin male.

mal

1. badly

   C'est mal fait. ― It's done badly.

mal (feminine singular 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] ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   C'est mal de [infinitive] ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

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

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

• AML

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈmal/

From Old Portuguese mal, from Latin male.

mal

1. badly

• ben

From Latin malum.

mal m (plural males)

1. misfortune
2. bad; evil
3. sickness

mal m sg

1. (before the noun) Apocopic form of malo

Peasants using males ("flails") to thresh cereal

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

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

• “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.

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

• IPA^(key): /maːl/ (standard)
• IPA^(key): /ma/ (colloquial)

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• Homophones: Mahl, Mal, mahl
• Rhymes: -aːl

mal

1. times; indicating multiplication of two numbers

   sechs mal sieben ist zweiundvierzig

   six times seven is forty-two — 6 × 7 = 42

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

   Wenn du in Köln bist, musst du mal bei deiner Tante anrufen. ― When you’re in Cologne, you must call your aunt sometime.

   Ich geh mal zum Kaffeestand. ― I’m off to the coffee stall. (Going to the coffee stall was not discussed at the moment.)

3. (informal) Softening a sentence, thus making a request or command more polite. By extension, indicating a command or request.
   • Haben Sie mal Feuer? ― Do you have a lighter [please]? (Can not imply that the asker is offering his lighter.)
   • Haste Feuer? ― D'ya have fire? (May imply that the asker is offering his lighter.)
   • Du musst mal deine Tante anrufen. ― You have to call your aunt. (Urging to do it now or very soon.)

• Malrechnung
• schon mal (schomma)

mal

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

• mal in Duden online

From Portuguese mal. Cognates with Kabuverdianu mal.

mal

1. bad

• IPA^(key): [maːl]
• Rhymes: -aːl

From mala (“to purr”).

mal n (genitive singular mals, no plural)

1. purr

See malur.

mal

1. indefinite accusative singular of malur

From Latin malus.

mal (comparative plus mal, superlative le plus mal)

1. bad
2. evil

mal (comparative plus mal, superlative le plus mal)

1. badly, poorly
2. wrongfully

mal (plural males)

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

mal m (invariable)

1. Apocopic form of male

From Portuguese mal.

mal

1. bad

mal f

1. home, house

mal

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

From Old French mal.

mal m (plural maulx)

1. bad act

• French: mal

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

1. bad; evil

• French: mal

mal

1. tax

From Old French mal, from Latin male.

mal

1. (Guernsey) badly

mal

1. (Guernsey) bad

From Dutch mal.

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

1. a template

mal

1. imperative of male

• “mal” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Dutch mal.

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

1. a template

mal

1. imperative of mala

• “mal” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

mal

1. bad

• maal

From Proto-Germanic *mailą.

• IPA^(key): /mɑːl/, [mɑːl]

māl n

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

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

From Latin male.

mal

1. evilly
2. badly; poorly

• Middle French: mal
  • French: mal

From Latin malus.

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

1. evil
2. pain, suffering

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

1. bad (undesirable; not good)

• Middle French: mal
  • French: mal

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

mal

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

• Catalan: mal
• Occitan: mal

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

From Latin male (“badly; wrongly”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmal/

mal

1. badly

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

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

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

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

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

   O carro está funcionando bem mal.

   The car is running pretty badly.

   João fala inglês mal.

   John speaks English badly.

2. (preceding verbs) hardly; barely

   Ele mal consegue estudar com todo esse barulho.

   He can hardly study with all this noise.

3. wrong (incorrect)

   A resposta está mal.

   The answer is wrong.

4. unfavourably (in an unfavourable manner)

   Penso mal de ti.

   I think unfavourably of you.

   Ele fala mal de ti.

   He speaks unfavourably of you.

5. (in compounds) evilly

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

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

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

• malamente, malmente

mal

1. have/had just; have/had barely

   Mal saí quando a encontrei.

   I had barely gone out when I found her.

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

From Latin malus.

mal m (plural males)

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

   As forças do mal cercaram o castelo.

   The forces of evil sieged the castle.

2. harm

   Ela não fez por mal.

   She meant no harm.

   Não faz mal.

   No problem. (It does not matter.)

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

   mal de Parkinson

   Parkinson’s disease

   Males como a SIDA e pneumonia são mortais.

   Illnesses such as AIDS and pneumonia are deadly.

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

• (sickness or syndrome): maladia

mal

1. (Brazil) Misspelling of mau.

Uncertain. Possibly a substratum term, perhaps from a Dacian *mal- or other Paleo-Balkanic source. Probably appearing in the name of the province Dacia Maluensis. Compare Aromanian mal, meal. Compare also the related Albanian mal.

mal n (plural maluri)

1. shore

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

• IPA^(key): /mâːl/

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

1. small

• màlen

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

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

mal m (apocopate, standard form malo)

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

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

• maleza
• malicia

From Latin male.

mal (comparative peor)

1. badly; poorly

mal m (plural males)

1. evil, harm; a bad thing or situation

   de mal en peor ― from bad to worse

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑːl/

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mal c

1. moth
2. wels catfish (Silurus glanis)

• fjäril c
• larv c

mal

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

• malström

From Arabic مَال‎ (māl, “property”).

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

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

• → Albanian: mall

• mal in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu

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

mal m

1. marten (mammal)