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hall
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)
- A corridor; a hallway.
- A meeting room.
- A manor house (originally because a magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion).
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Cowell to this entry?)
- A building providing student accommodation at a university.
- The principal room of a secular medieval building.
- (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.
- 1633, Ben Jonson, A Tale of a Tub
- A place for special professional education, or for conferring professional degrees or licences.
- a Divinity Hall; Apothecaries' Hall
- (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)
- trouble
References
Chinese
Etymology
From English hall.
Pronunciation
Noun
hall
- (Hong Kong Cantonese) assembly hall; auditorium
- (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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- hall (large room or building)
Declension
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English hall.
Pronunciation
- (aspirated h) IPA(key): /ol/
Noun
hall m (plural halls)
- hall
- 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
- singular imperative of hallen
- (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
- (intransitive) to hear (to perceive sounds through the ear)
- (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)
- 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
- 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
- frost
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse h?ll.
Noun
hall m (definite singular hallen, indefinite plural haller, definite plural hallene)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- (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)
- 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
- a hallway
- a lounge
- a corridor
- an entryway
- 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
- sloping, inclined, oblique
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Old Norse h?ll, from Proto-Germanic *hall?
Noun
hall f
- area where no particularly large forest exist
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theater
English
Alternative forms
- theatre (standard spelling in all English-speaking countries that use British spelling)
Etymology
From Middle English theater, theatre, from Old French theatre, from Latin theatrum, from Ancient Greek ??????? (théatron, “a place for viewing”), from ??????? (theáomai, “to see", "to watch", "to observe”). Doublet of tiatr.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /??i(?)t?/, sometimes /????.t?/
- (Canada, Southern American English) IPA(key): /??i(?)t?/, /??i.e?.t?/
- (UK) IPA(key): /??i??.t?/, /????.t?/
- (General New Zealand) IPA(key): /??i?t?/, [??i??t?], [??i????]
Noun
theater (countable and uncountable, plural theaters) (American spelling)
- A place or building, consisting of a stage and seating, in which an audience gathers to watch plays, musical performances, public ceremonies, and so on.
- A region where a particular action takes place; a specific field of action, usually with reference to war.
- A lecture theatre.
- (medicine) An operating theatre or locale for human experimentation.
- (US) A cinema.
- Drama or performance as a profession or art form.
- Any place rising by steps like the seats of a theater.
Usage notes
- The spelling theatre is the main spelling in British English, with theater being rare.
- In United States English, theater accounts for about 80 percent of usage in the major corpus of usage, COCA.
- Among American theatre professionals, there is some usage of the two spellings in order to differentiate between the location theater (as in definitions 1–5) and the art-form theatre (definition 6). A variant of this differentiation is the usage of theatre for things relating to live performances (as in definitions 1 and 6) with theater being used for all other uses.
Synonyms
- fabulous invalid
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- Appendix:Glossary of theatre
Anagrams
- hat tree, hattree, teareth, tethera, theatre, thereat
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French théâtre, from Old French theatre, from Latin theatrum, from Ancient Greek ??????? (théatron, “a place for viewing”), from ??????? (theáomai, “to see", "to watch", "to observe”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /te??(j)a?t?r/
- Hyphenation: the?a?ter
- Rhymes: -a?t?r
Noun
theater n (plural theaters, diminutive theatertje n)
- theater (US), theatre (Commonwealth): either drama, the art form, or a drama theater (building)
Synonyms
- schouwburg
Derived terms
- danstheater
- theaterkunst
- volkstheater
Descendants
- Afrikaans: teater
- ? Indonesian: teater
Middle English
Alternative forms
- theatre, teatre, theatyr, theatere
Etymology
From Old French theatre, from Latin theatrum, from Ancient Greek ??????? (théatron).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t??at?r/, /?t???a?t?r/
Noun
theater
- A theatre open to the sky; an amphitheatre.
- Any stage which plays and performances take place at.
- (rare) A whorehouse.
Descendants
- English: theater, theatre
- Scots: theatre
References
- “th????tre, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-19.
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