ماله

Khalaj

Noun

ماله (mâla, mâlə) (definite accusative ماله‌نی or ماله‌نؽ, plural ماله‌لَر or ماله‌لار)

1. Arabic spelling of mâla, mâlə (“ladle, trowel, spatula”)

Declension

Declension of ماله

	singular	plural
nominative	ماله	ماله‌لار
genitive	ماله‌ݧ	ماله‌لارؽݧ
dative	ماله‌قا	ماله‌لارقا
definite accusative	ماله‌ݧ	ماله‌لارؽ
locative	ماله‌چا	ماله‌لارچا
ablative	ماله‌دا	ماله‌لاردا
instrumental	ماله‌لا	ماله‌لارلا
equative	ماله‌وارا	ماله‌لاروارا

Declension of ماله

	singular	plural
nominative	ماله	ماله‌لَر
genitive	ماله‌ݧ	ماله‌لَریݧ
dative	ماله‌که	ماله‌لَرکه
definite accusative	ماله‌ݧ	ماله‌لَری
locative	ماله‌چه	ماله‌لَرچه
ablative	ماله‌ده	ماله‌لَرده
instrumental	ماله‌له	ماله‌لَرله
equative	ماله‌وارا	ماله‌لَروارا

Ottoman Turkish

ماله

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian ماله (mâle, “trowel, harrow”).

Proper noun

ماله • (mala)

1. trowel, a plasterer's tool used in spreading and dressing mortar
2. (in general) any instrument for rubbing down and smoothing

Derived terms

• ماله‌جی (malacı, “maker or seller of trowels”)
• ماله‌لاتمق (malalatmak, “to make or let be smoothed”)
• ماله‌لامق (malalamak, “to smooth or polish with a trowel”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: mala
• → Armenian: մալա (mala), մա̈լա̈ (mälä)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mala1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3034
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “ماله”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 416a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ماله”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1095
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Trulla”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1697
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “ماله”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 4249
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “mala”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ماله”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1660

Persian

Alternative forms

• مالچ (mâleč), مالش (mâleš)

Etymology

From Middle Persian *mālag, whence also Arabic مَالَج (mālaj), مَالَق (mālaq, “trowel”) and مَيْلَق (maylaq, “touchstone, whetstone”); from the stem of مالیدن (mâlidan, “to rub, to smooth, to polish”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [mɑː.la]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mɑː.lä]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mɑː.lä]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [mɑː.lä]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [mɔː.lä]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [mɒː.le]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [mɔ.lä]

Readings
Classical reading?	māla
Dari reading?	māla
Iranian reading?	mâle
Tajik reading?	mola

Noun

ماله • (mâle)

1. anything with which ground is smoothed; trowel; harrow

Descendants

• → Khalaj: mâla
• → Ottoman Turkish: ماله (mala)
  • Turkish: mala
  • → Armenian: մալա (mala), մա̈լա̈ (mälä)

References

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “ماله”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “ماله”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎^[6] (in Latin), volume II, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 1123