different between mahal vs maha

English

Etymology

From Hindi ??? (mahal), from Arabic ??????? (ma?all, “place”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??h??l/

Noun

mahal (plural mahals)

1. (India) A summer house.
2. (India) Private lodgings.
3. (India, historical) A territorial division of pre-independence India.
4. (India) A division of a farm.
5. (India) A division of a hunting preserve.

Anagrams

• Halma, Hamal, almah, amlah, halma, hamal

Bikol Central

Adjective

mahál

1. expensive

   Antonym: barato

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay mahal. Cognate of Tagalog mahal (“dear, expensive”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?mahal]
• Hyphenation: ma?hal

Adjective

mahal

1. expensive
2. rare, hard

Derived terms

Further reading

• “mahal” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Malay

Adjective

mahal (Jawi spelling ?????, plural mahal-mahal)

1. expensive

Derived terms

• kemahalan
• memahalkan

Further reading

• “mahal” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Tagalog

Etymology

Compare Indonesian mahal (“expensive”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma?hal/

Adjective

mahal

1. Dear.

   Mahal kong kapatid

   My dear kin

2. Expensive.

   Mahal na pang-matrikula

   Expensive tuition fee

Noun

mahal

1. Beloved.

   O aking mahal, sadyang pinagtagpo tayo ng Tadhana!

   Oh my beloved, we have been led to meet by Fate!

Verb

mahal

1. To love.

   Siya lang ang tanging minamahal ko, hindi ko ito maikakaila.

   She is the only one I am loving, this I cannot deny.

2. To raise in price.

   Nagmamahal taun-taon ang matrikula; saan ba napupunta ang pera?

   School tuition fees hike every year; where does the money go?

Synonyms

• ibig
• irog

Derived terms

• mahal kita

Waray-Waray

Adjective

mahál

1. expensive

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Noun

maha

1. (archaic) A kind of monkey; the wanderoo.
   • 1896, Richard Lydekker, A Geographical History of Mammals

     The natives, who designate the latter as the Maha, or Great Wanderu, to distinguish it from the Kala, or Black one […]

References

• maha in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• AHAM, Hama, amah

Breton

Verb

maha

1. to press

Ese

Noun

maha

1. pig

References

• Jim and Judy Parlier Managalasi phonology. 2008 [1963].

Estonian

Etymology

Irregular illative of maa (“earth, ground”).

Adverb

maha

1. down

2. into the ground

3. off

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *maha, borrowed from a Germanic language, compare Proto-Germanic *magô, Swedish mage. Cognates include Karelian maha, Votic maha, Ludian maha.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?h?/, [?m???]
• Rhymes: -?h?
• Syllabification: ma?ha

Noun

maha

1. stomach, belly

Usage notes

Maha is often used when talking about the inner part (or a round belly) and vatsa when talking about the outer, but especially in speech the usage of these words is often very mixed up.

Declension

Synonyms

• masu
• vatsa

Derived terms

• -mahainen
• mahakas

Compounds

Anagrams

• Haam, ahma, hama

Indonesian

Adjective

maha (plural maha-maha)

1. mighty, great
2. infinite
3. sublime

Jaqaru

Verb

maha

1. to go

References

Martha James Hardman. (1996) Jaqaru: Outline of phonological and morphological structure, page 75.

Karelian

Noun

maha

1. stomach

Malay

Adjective

maha (plural maha-maha)

1. mighty, great
2. infinite
3. sublime

Maori

Noun

maha

1. abundance, bounty, majority

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

maha m

1. religious festival

Declension

Adjective

maha

1. masculine/neuter vocative singular of mahant

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

maha

1. genitive singular of mah

Tahitian

Numeral

maha

1. four

Derived terms

• maha ?ahuru

See also

• to?om?ha

Vilamovian

Etymology

From Old High German mahh?n, from Proto-West Germanic *mak?n.

Verb

maha

1. (transitive) to do or make

Conjugation

maha is a weak verb ending in -a

Present tense:yhy mah

dü mahst

har / zej / ejs maht

wjyr maha

jyr maht

zej maha

Past tense:yhy maht

dü mahtst

har / zej / ejs maht

wjyr mahta

jyr maht

zej mahta

Present participle: mahaPast participle: gymaht

Further reading

A GRAMMAR OF WYMYSORYS, Alexander Andrason & Tymoteusz Król, Duke University, Slavic and East European Language Resource Center – SEELRC, 2016