Ladino edit

Etymology edit

From Hebrew מפלה (mapalá).

Noun edit

mapala f

  1. ruin
  2. misfortune
  3. disaster

Further reading edit

  • Joseph Nehama, Jesús Cantera (1977) “mapalá”, in Dictionnaire du Judéo-Espagnol (in French), Madrid: CSIC, →ISBN, page 346