maalé

See also: maale and måle

Ladino

Alternative forms

• mallé

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish محله (mahalle, “station, parish, ward”), from Arabic مَحَلَّة (maḥalla).

Noun

maalé f (Latin spelling)

1. quarter, neighborhood, street
   • 1883 August 3, La Epoka‎^[1], number 734, ⁨Thessaloniki⁩, page 5:

     איל איסטאדﬞו אין כואל סי טופאבﬞח לח ּּּּּמאאלי […]

     El estado en kual se topava la maale […]

     The condition of the neighborhood […]

Derived terms

• maalé yahudí

References

• Aitor García Moreno, editor (2013–), “mahalé”, in Diccionario Histórico Judeoespañol (in Spanish), CSIC
• Joseph Nehama, Jesús Cantera (1977) “maalé”, in Dictionnaire du Judéo-Espagnol (in French), Madrid: CSIC, →ISBN, page 334