mall
English edit
Etymology edit
Probably from The Mall, a major street in London, England, which was originally a pall mall alley.
Pronunciation edit
- (UK)
- (General American, New England, General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /mɔːl/
Noun edit
mall (countable and uncountable, plural malls)
- (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.
- 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.
- (obsolete) An alley where the game of pall mall was played. [17th–19th c.]
- 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.
- 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 […]
- (obsolete) The game of polo. [17th c.]
- (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
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Russian: молл (moll)
Translations edit
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Verb edit
mall (third-person singular simple present malls, present participle malling, simple past and past participle malled)
- to beat with a mall, or mallet; to beat with something heavy; to bruise
- to build up with the development of shopping malls
- (informal) to shop at the mall
References edit
- “mall”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “mall”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Albanian edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mall m (plural malle, definite malli, definite plural mallet)
- Alternative form of mal (“mountain”)
Declension edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
mall m (plural mallra, definite malli, definite plural mallrat)
Declension edit
Etymology 2 edit
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 edit
mall m (plural malle, definite malli, definite plural mallet)
Declension edit
References edit
Breton edit
Noun edit
mall m
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mall m (plural malls)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “mall” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Cebuano edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English mall.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mall
- mall; shopping center
- (by extension) department store
Irish edit
Etymology edit
From Old Irish mall; see there.
Pronunciation edit
- (Munster) IPA(key): /mˠɑul̪ˠ/
- (Connacht) IPA(key): /mˠɑːl̪ˠ/ (Galway); IPA(key): /mˠal̪ˠ/ (Mayo)
- (Ulster) IPA(key): /mˠal̪ˠ/
Adjective edit
mall (genitive singular masculine mall, genitive singular feminine moille, plural malla, comparative moille)
- slow
- Ní fhanann trá le fear mall. ― An ebb does not wait for a slow man.
Declension edit
Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
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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 edit
Irish mutation | ||
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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 edit
Etymology edit
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]
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
mall (comparative mailliu, superlative maillem)
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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 edit
o/ā-stem | |||
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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 |
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Mutation edit
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
mall also mmall after a proclitic |
mall pronounced with /ṽ(ʲ)-/ |
unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References edit
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*mallo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 254
Further reading edit
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “mall”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English mall.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mall n (plural malluri)
Declension edit
singular | plural | |||
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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 edit
Etymology edit
From Old Irish mall; see above.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
mall
- slow
- tardy, late
- lazy
- weak
- calm, placid
- feasgar mall 's na h-eòin a' seinn ― a calm evening and the birds warbling
- dull, senseless
Derived terms edit
Mutation edit
Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
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Radical | Lenition |
mall | mhall |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading edit
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mall m (plural malls)
- mall (shopping centre)
Swedish edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mall c
Declension edit
Declension of mall | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | mall | mallen | mallar | mallarna |
Genitive | malls | mallens | mallars | mallarnas |
Tagalog edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English mall.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mall (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓᜎ᜔)
Further reading edit
- “mall”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018