different between hall vs door

English

Etymology

From Middle English halle, from Old English heall (“hall, dwelling, house; palace, temple; law-court”), from Proto-Germanic *hall? (“hall”), from Proto-Indo-European *?el- (“to hide, conceal”). Cognate with Scots hall, haw (“hall”), Dutch hal (“hall”), German Halle (“hall”), Norwegian hall (“hall”), Swedish hall (“hall”), Icelandic höll (“palace”), Latin cella (“room, cell”), Sanskrit ???? (???l?, “house, mansion, hall”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /h??l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /h?l/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /h?l/
• Rhymes: -??l
• Homophone: haul

Noun

hall (plural halls)

1. A corridor; a hallway.
2. A meeting room.

3. A manor house (originally because a magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion).

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4. A building providing student accommodation at a university.

5. The principal room of a secular medieval building.
6. (obsolete) Cleared passageway through a crowd, as for dancing.
   • 1633, Ben Jonson, A Tale of a Tub

     Then cry, a hall, a hall! Come, father Rosin, with your fiddle now.

7. A place for special professional education, or for conferring professional degrees or licences.

   a Divinity Hall; Apothecaries' Hall

8. (India) A living room.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??? (h?ru)
• ? Russian: ???? (xoll)

Translations

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)kel- (compare English shallow, Middle High German hel (“tired, weak”), Ancient Greek ?????? (skéll?, “to dry up”), ??????? (skl?rós, “hard, harsh”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ha?/

Noun

hall m (indefinite plural halle, definite singular halli, definite plural hallet)

1. trouble

References

Chinese

Etymology

From English hall.

Pronunciation

Noun

hall

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) assembly hall; auditorium
2. (Hong Kong Cantonese) residence hall; dormitory

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English hall. Doublet of hal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [h??l]

Noun

hall c (singular definite hallen, plural indefinite haller)

1. hall (a corridor or a hallway)

Inflection

Estonian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *halla, from pre-Finnic *šalna, from Proto-Balto-Slavic [Term?]. Compare Latvian salna, Lithuanian šalna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?l?/

Noun

hall (genitive halla, partitive halla)

1. frost

Declension

Etymology 2

From Proto-Finnic *halli (compare Finnish halli), from Balto-Slavic. Compare Latvian salnis, Lithuanian šalnis (“off-white, roan”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?l??/

Adjective

hall (genitive halli, partitive halli)

1. grey (color)

Declension

Derived terms

• hallitama

See also

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?l??/

Noun

hall (genitive halli, partitive halli)

1. hall (large room or building)

Declension

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English hall.

Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /ol/

Noun

hall m (plural halls)

1. hall
2. lobby

Further reading

• “hall” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hal/
• Rhymes: -al

Verb

hall

1. singular imperative of hallen
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of hallen

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?h?l?]
• Rhymes: -?l?

Etymology 1

From the conflation of Proto-Uralic *kontale- (compare Old Hungarian hadl (“hear”), Mansi ?????? (h?ntli), Finnish kuunnella) and Proto-Uralic *kule- (compare Mansi ???????? (h?lu?kve) and Finnish kuulla).

Verb

hall

2. (intransitive) to hear (to perceive sounds through the ear)
3. (transitive) to hear (to perceive with the ear)

Usage notes

This verb is a member of one of those (few) quasi-homonymous verb pairs that exist both with and without an -ik ending. All (intransitive) suffixed forms of these pairs are identical (sometimes they can even have derived forms that coincide), with the exception of their dictionary form (the third-person singular indicative present, with or without -ik). However, the meaning of these pairs is usually distinct, sometimes unrelated. Examples include (fel)áldoz–(le)áldozik, bán–bánik, (meg)bíz–(meg)bízik, ér–érik, esz (rare)–eszik, hajol–hajlik, (felül)múl–(el)múlik, (hozzá)nyúl–nyúlik, (el)vesz–(el)veszik~(el)vész, and tör–törik (along with their verbal prefixes), hall–hallik (archaic), érez–érzik (archaic), sometimes with some difference: (el)hibáz–hibádzik, (le)torkol–torkollik. Therefore one may well need to check the context and the arguments to ascertain which member of the verb pair is relevant.

Conjugation

Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

Etymology 2

Borrowed from German Halle.

Noun

hall (plural hallok)

2. middle-sized, windowless room, entryway, hallway (in a private flat/apartment, with a size not smaller than 8 m² [86 sq ft], with space for people, but without affording them privacy due to its being an entry to other rooms)

   Synonym: el?tér

   Coordinate terms: szoba, helyiség, félszoba, alkóv, gardrób, el?szoba, hálószoba, nappali

3. lobby, foyer, lounge (e.g. in a hotel or an opera house)

   Synonyms: társalgó, el?csarnok

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• (to hear): hall in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
• (entryway): hall in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Ludian

Etymology

Akin to Finnish halla.

Noun

hall

1. frost

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse h?ll.

Noun

hall m (definite singular hallen, indefinite plural haller, definite plural hallene)

1. a hall (a building or very large room)

Derived terms

• idrettshall
• ishall
• svømmehall

References

• “hall” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?l?/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse h?ll. Akin to English hall.

Noun

hall m (definite singular hallen, indefinite plural hallar, definite plural hallane)
or
hall f (definite singular halla, indefinite plural haller, definite plural hallene)

1. a hall (a building or very large room)

Derived terms

• idrettshall
• ishall
• svømmehall, symjehall

Etymology 2

From Old Norse hallr.

Noun

hall n (definite singular hallet, indefinite plural hall, definite plural halla)

1. a slope, sloping terrain

Derived terms

• bakhall
• grashall

References

• “hall” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English hall.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?h?w/

Noun

hall m (plural halls)

1. (architecture) lobby; entrance hall (room in a building used for entry from the outside)

Derived terms

• hall da fama

Spanish

Etymology

From English hall.

Noun

hall m (plural halls)

1. hall, lobby, lounge

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse h?ll, from Proto-Germanic *hall?, from Proto-Indo-European *?el-. Compare English hall. Related to Latin cella and English cellar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hal/

Noun

hall c

1. a hallway
2. a lounge
3. a corridor
4. an entryway
5. short for any of the words:

   • simhall
   • ishall
   • sporthall
   • verkstadshall
   • mässhall

Declension

References

Westrobothnian

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hallr. Cognate with Icelandic hallur.

Adjective

hall

1. sloping, inclined, oblique

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Norse h?ll, from Proto-Germanic *hall?

Noun

hall f

1. area where no particularly large forest exist

English

Etymology

From Middle English dore, dor, from Old English duru (“door”), dor (“gate”), from Proto-Germanic *durz, from Proto-Indo-European *d?w?r, from *d?wer- (“doorway, door, gate”). Cognate with Scots door (“door”), Saterland Frisian Doore (“door”), West Frisian doar (“door”), Dutch deur (“door”), German Low German Door, Döör (“door”), German Tür (“door”), Tor (“gate”), Danish and Norwegian dør (“door”), Icelandic dyr (“door”), Latin foris and foras, Ancient Greek ???? (thúra), Albanian derë pl. dyer, Central Kurdish ?????? (derge), derî, Persian ??? (dar), Russian ????? (dver?), Hindi ????? (dv?r) / ????? (dv?r), Armenian ???? (du?), Irish doras, Lithuanian durys.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: dô, IPA^(key): /d??/
• (General American) enPR: dôr, IPA^(key): /d??/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: d?r?, IPA^(key): /do(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /do?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophone: daw (non-rhotic with caught-court merger (most of England, Australia, New York))
• Homophone: dour (cure-force merger; one pronunciation)
• Homophone: dough (non-rhotic with dough-door merger (AAVE, non-rhotic Southern accents))
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Noun

door (plural doors)

1. A portal of entry into a building, room, or vehicle, consisting of a rigid plane movable on a hinge. Doors are frequently made of wood or metal. May have a handle to help open and close, a latch to hold the door closed, and a lock that ensures the door cannot be opened without the key.

2. Any flap, etc. that opens like a door.

3. (immigration) An entry point.
4. (figuratively) A means of approach or access.

   Learning is the door to wisdom.

5. (figuratively) A barrier.

6. (computing, dated) A software mechanism by which a user can interact with a program running remotely on a bulletin board system. See BBS door.

Meronyms

• handle
• latch
• lock

Hyponyms

• front door
• sliding door

Derived terms

Related terms

Meronyms

Translations

See also

• gate

Verb

door (third-person singular simple present doors, present participle dooring, simple past and past participle doored)

1. (transitive, cycling) To cause a collision by opening the door of a vehicle in front of an oncoming cyclist or pedestrian.

Translations

Anagrams

• Rood, odor, ordo, rood

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /do?r/
• Hyphenation: door
• Rhymes: -o?r

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch d?re, from Old Dutch thuro, from Proto-Germanic *þurhw.

Preposition

door

1. through

   Hij schoot de bal door het raam.

   He kicked the ball through the window.

2. across, around (within a certain space)

   Dolenthousiast rende het hondje door de kamer.

   Very enthusiastically the puppy ran around the room.

3. because of, due to

   Door files kan ik niet op tijd komen.

   Because of traffic jams I'm unable to arrive on time.

4. by, by means of

   Hij vermeed een confrontatie door de andere kant op te lopen.

   He avoided a confrontation by walking the other way.

Inflection

Synonyms

(because of):

• vanwege

Derived terms

Related terms

• door-
• door middel van

Descendants

• Afrikaans: deur

Adverb

door

1. through
2. forward, on

   Ondanks slecht weer ging het feest toch door.

   Despite bad weather, the party went on anyway.

3. (postpositional, directional) through (implying motion)

   Ik rijd nu de stad door.

   I'm now driving through the city.

4. (postpositional, spatial) across, around (within a certain space)

   Dolenthousiast rende het hondje de kamer door.

   Very enthusiastically the puppy ran around the room.

5. (postpositional, temporal) throughout, round (occurring all the time – constantly or frequently – within a certain time period)

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: deur

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch dôre. Cognate to German Tor. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

door m (plural doren)

1. (now Southern, archaic) fool, moron
   • 1869, Frans de Cort, "Walter van de Vogelweide als paedagoog" (article including a poem), in Frans de Cort (ed.), De toekomst. Tijdschrift voor opvoeding en onderwijs, Vol. 3, No. 6, page 245.

     Past ook op uwe ooren / Beter dan de doren!

   Synonyms: dwaas, nar, zot

Related terms

• dwaas

Anagrams

• oord, rood

Old Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin dolor (“pain”), dol?ris.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /do.?o?/

Noun

door f (plural doores)

1. pain
   • 13th century, Afonso X the wise, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E Codex, Cantiga 206:

     ? untou lle b? a chaga / ? perdeu Log a door. / ? po?? el a ?ua mão. / ben firme en ?eu logar

     And anointed well the wound / and soon the pain was gone. / And put his hand / very firmly in its place.

Related terms

• doorida, doorido
• doorosa

Descendants

• Galician: dor
• Portuguese: dor
  • Kabuverdianu: dór

Scots

Alternative forms

• dour

Etymology

From Middle English dore, dor, from Old English duru (“door”), dor (“gate”), from Proto-Germanic *durz, from Proto-Indo-European *d?w?r, from *d?wer- (“doorway, door, gate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [du?r]

Noun

door (plural doors)

1. door

Further reading

• “door” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

Somali

Verb

door

1. to choose