Arabic edit

Etymology 1 edit

Root
م ل ل (m-l-l)

Verb edit

مَلَّ (malla) I, non-past يَمَلُّ‎ (yamallu)

  1. to sew with large stitches
  2. to give to the fire; to throw into the ashes
  3. to be tedious for somebody, to appear as a source of vexation to, to tire, to weary
Conjugation edit

Verb edit

مَلَّ (malla) I, non-past يَمَلُّ‎ (yamallu)

  1. (transitive) to be bored by
  2. (obsolete) to be affected by heat, to be feverish
Conjugation edit

Noun edit

مَلّ (mallm

  1. verbal noun of مَلَّ (malla) (form I)
Declension edit

Etymology 2 edit

From Tamil மூலை (mūlai, corner, angle; point of compass) or from Malayalam മൂല (mūla, corner, angle; point of compass).

Noun edit

مُل (mulm

  1. (nautical) coastline
    Coordinate terms: بَحْر (baḥr), بَرّ (barr)
Declension edit
Alternative forms edit
  • مُول (mūl)later, more dialectal
Derived terms edit

Further reading edit

Etymology 3 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb edit

مِلْ (mil) (form I)

  1. second-person masculine singular active imperative of مَالَ (māla)

References edit

  • مل” in Almaany
  • Freytag, Georg (1837) “مل”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[2] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 202
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “مل”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc[3] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, pages 1140–1141
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “مل”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary[4], London: W.H. Allen, page 1050
  • Wahrmund, Adolf (1887) “مل”, in Handwörterbuch der neu-arabischen und deutschen Sprache[5] (in German), volume 2, Gießen: J. Ricker’sche Buchhandlung, page 890
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “مل”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 1077
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “مل”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[6] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1217

Laki edit

Noun edit

مل (mil)

  1. neck

Persian edit

Etymology 1 edit

Borrowed from Sogdian [script needed] (mwδ /⁠muδ⁠/) or less likely from Bactrian μολο (molo, wine), both from Proto-Iranian *mádu, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *mádʰu, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰu. Doublet of می (mey).

Pronunciation edit

 

Readings
Classical reading? mul
Dari reading? mul
Iranian reading? mol
Tajik reading? mul

Noun edit

مل (mol)

  1. (literary, archaic) wine
    Synonyms: شراب (šarâb), (literary) می (mey)

Etymology 2 edit

From Proto-Iranian *mr̥ju-. Cognate with Talysh مل (məl), مله (məlla, neck), Avestan 𐬨𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬰𐬎 (mərəzu, neck, vertebra). Central Kurdish مل (mil, neck) is loaned from Persian.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

مل (mol)

  1. (dialectal, Yazd, Kazerun) neck
    Synonym: گردن (gardan)

Punjabi edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Paisaci Prakrit 𑀫𑀼𑀮𑁆𑀮 (mulla) (compare Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀫𑀼𑀮𑁆𑀮 (mulla)), from Sanskrit मूल्य (mūlya). Cognate with Urdu مول (mol), Nepali मुल्य (mulya), Konkani मोल (mōl), Assamese মূল্য (muillo), Bengali মূল্য (mullo) and Sinhalese මිල (mila).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

مُلّ (mullm (Gurmukhi spelling ਮੁੱਲ)

  1. price; worth
    Synonym: قِیمَت (qīmat)

Declension edit

Declension of مل
dir. sg. مُلّ (mull)
dir. pl. مُلّ (mull)
singular plural
direct مُلّ (mull) مُلّ (mull)
oblique مُلّ (mull) مُلّاں (mullāṉ)
vocative مُلّا (mullā) مُلّو (mullo)
ablative مُلّوں (mulloṉ)
locative مُلّے (mulle) مُلِّیں (mulliīṉ)
instrumental مُلّے (mulle) مُلِّیں (mulliīṉ)

References edit

  • مل”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2024
  • Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “مُل”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz

South Levantine Arabic edit

Root
م ل ل
2 terms

Etymology edit

From Arabic مَلَّ (malla).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /mall/, [mal]
  • (file)

Verb edit

ملّ (mall) I (present بملّ (bimill))

  1. to get bored, to get tired of
  2. to become fed up with, to become sick of

Conjugation edit

    Conjugation of ملّ (mall)
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
past m ملّيت (mallēt) ملّيت (mallēt) ملّ (mall) ملّينا (mallēna) ملّيتو (mallētu) ملّو (mallu)
f ملّيتي (mallēti) ملّت (mallat)
present m بملّ (bamill) بتملّ (bitmill) بملّ (bimill) منملّ (minmill) بتملّو (bitmillu) بملّو (bimillu)
f بتملّي (bitmilli) بتملّ (bitmill)
subjunctive m املّ (amill) تملّ (tmill) يملّ (ymill) نملّ (nmill) تملّو (tmillu) يملّو (ymillu)
f تملّي (tmilli) تملّ (tmill)
imperative m ملّ (mill) ملّو (millu)
f ملّي (milli)

See also edit

Southwestern Fars edit

Noun edit

مل (mol)

  1. (Anatomy, Masarm, Deh Sarv, Kuzarg) neck

Torwali edit

Etymology edit

From Sanskrit मल (mala), from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂-.

Noun edit

مَل (mal)

  1. dirt

Derived terms edit