different between mall vs malo

English

Etymology

Probably from The Mall, a major street in London, England, which was originally a pall mall alley.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mæl/, /m??l/
  • Rhymes: -æl, Rhymes: -??l
• (General New Zealand, US (varieties without the cot-caught merger), New England, General Australian) IPA^(key): /m??l/
  • Rhymes: -??l
  • Homophone: maul with -awl pronunciation
• (US (varieties with the cot-caught merger), Canada) IPA^(key): /m?l/
• • Homophone: moll
  • Rhymes: -??l

Noun

mall (countable and uncountable, plural malls)

1. (chiefly Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand) A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct. [from 20th c.]
   • 2002, Alexander Garvin, The American City: What Works, What Doesn?t, page 179,

     America?s first pedestrianized shopping mall opened in 1959 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Like most later pedestrian malls, it was intended to revive what everybody thought was a decaying downtown.

2. An enclosed shopping centre. [from 20th c.]
   • 2004, Ralph E. Warner, Get a Life: You Don?t Need a Million to Retire Well, unnumbered page,

     Every day, at about the time the rest of us go to work, groups of retirees gather at many of America?s enclosed shopping malls.

3. (obsolete) An alley where the game of pall mall was played. [17th-19th c.]
4. A public walk; a level shaded walk, a promenade. [from 18th c.]
   • 1820, Robert Southey, The Life of Wesley; and Rise and Progress of Methodism

     Part of the area was laid out in gravel walks, and planted with elms; and these convenient and frequented walks obtained the name of the City Mall.

5. A heavy wooden mallet or hammer used in the game of pall mall. [from 17th c.]
   • 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner:

     I also fell slightly; but his fall proving a severe one, he arose in wrath, and struck me with the mall which he held in his hand, until my blood flowed copiously […]

6. (obsolete) The game of polo. [17th c.]
7. (obsolete) An old game played with malls or mallets and balls; pall mall. [17th-19th c.]

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Cotton to this entry?)

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

mall (third-person singular simple present malls, present participle malling, simple past and past participle malled)

1. to beat with a mall, or mallet; to beat with something heavy; to bruise
2. to build up with the development of shopping malls
3. (informal) to shop at the mall

References

• mall at OneLook Dictionary Search
• mall in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Albanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ma?]

Noun

mall m (indefinite plural malle, definite singular malli, definite plural mallet)

1. Alternative form of mal (“mountain”)

Declension

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Turkish mal.

Noun

mall m (indefinite plural mallra, definite singular malli, definite plural mallrat)

1. goods

   Synonym: çeshit

Declension

Etymology 2

From Proto-Albanian *mala, from Proto-Indo-European *melh?- (“black”), compare zi (“black, mourning, sadness”) and mallëngjej (“to touch emotionally, to move”). Alternatively from Proto-Albanian *malwa, close to Sanskrit ???? (malvá, “foolish, thoughtless, unwise”), Middle Low German mall (“stupid, foolish”), West Frisian m?l (“foolish, mad”). Alternatively, from Latin malum.

Noun

mall m (indefinite plural malle, definite singular malli, definite plural mallet)

1. longing, missing, nostalgia

Declension

References

Breton

Noun

mall m

1. haste

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin malleus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ma?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Noun

mall m (plural malls)

1. hammer

Further reading

• “mall” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from English mall.

Noun

mall

1. a shopping mall
2. (by extension) a department store

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish mall; see there.

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /m??ul??/
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /m???l??/ (Galway); IPA^(key): /m?al??/ (Mayo)
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /m?al??/

Adjective

mall (genitive singular masculine mall, genitive singular feminine moille, plural malla, comparative moille)

1. slow

Declension

Mutation

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *malnos (“slow, lazy”), of uncertain derivation, but perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *mel- (“to be late, hesitate”) + *-nós; compare Ancient Greek ????? (méll?, “be late”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mal?/

Adjective

mall (comparative mailliu, superlative maillem)

1. slow
   • c. 700-800, Táin Bó Cúailnge, from the Yellow Book of Lecan, published in The Táin Bó Cúailnge from the Yellow Book of Lecan, with variant readings from the Lebor na hUidre (1912, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, and Co.), edited by John Strachan and James George O'Keeffe, TBC-I 3537

2. tardy, late
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 5^c5

Inflection

Descendants

• Middle Irish: mall
  • Irish: mall
  • Manx: moal
  • Scottish Gaelic: mall

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “mall”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

References

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish mall; see above.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mau?/

Adjective

mall

1. slow
2. tardy, late
3. lazy
4. weak
5. calm, placid

6. dull, senseless

Derived terms

• luath no mall
• ruigidh each mall muileann

References

• “mall” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.
• A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language (John Grant, Edinburgh, 1925, Compiled by Malcolm MacLennan)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mol/, [?mol]

Noun

mall m (plural malls)

1. mall (shopping centre)

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mal/

Noun

mall c

1. a template

   Synonym: schablon

Declension

Westrobothnian

Noun

mall m

1. Alternative spelling of maall

English

Etymology 1

Shortening of malolactic.

Noun

malo (uncountable)

1. (informal) malolactic fermentation

Etymology 2

Noun

malo (plural malos)

1. A Hawaiian loincloth.

Anagrams

• AMLO, LMAO, lmao, loam, loma, mola

Bariai

Noun

malo

1. cloth

References

• Steve Gallagher, Peirce Baehr, Bariai Grammar Sketch (2005)

Cebuano

Alternative forms

• mawo

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ma?lo

Noun

malo

1. (botany) the stamen

Chavacano

Etymology

From Spanish malo (“bad”).

Adjective

malo

1. bad; evil

Chichewa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ma.?ó/

Noun

maló 6

1. place

Derived terms

• m'malo mwa

Dyula

Noun

malo

1. (uncooked) rice
2. (botany) rice plant, Oryza sativa

See also

• malobaga
• malob??r?
• maloforo
• malogosilan
• malokala
• malokini
• malokis?
• malos?n?la
• kini
• ????kini

Esperanto

Etymology

From mal- +? -o.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?malo/
• Hyphenation: mal?o
• Rhymes: -alo

Noun

malo (accusative singular malon, plural maloj, accusative plural malojn)

1. opposite

Galician

Alternative forms

• mal (masculine singular, before the noun)
• mao

Etymology

From Latin malus.

Adjective

malo m (feminine singular mala, masculine plural malos, feminine plural malas)

1. bad

   Antonym: bo

Related terms

• mal

Gothic

Romanization

mal?

1. Romanization of ????????????????

Italian

Etymology

From Latin malus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ma.lo/
• Hyphenation: mà?lo
• Rhymes: -alo

Adjective

malo (feminine mala, masculine plural mali, feminine plural male)

1. (archaic) bad, evil, wicked

   Synonym: cattivo

   Antonym: buono

2. (archaic) unfit, incompetent, inadequate

Usage notes

In modern usage displaced by cattivo, but still used in some set phrases.

Derived terms

• malalingua

Related terms

Anagrams

• almo, mola

Ladino

Etymology

From Old Spanish malo (“bad”).

Adjective

malo (Latin spelling)

1. bad

   Synonym: negro

Latin

Etymology 1

From magis +? vol?, literally "I more greatly wish for".

Alternative forms

• m?vol? (uncontracted form)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ma?.lo?/, [?mä???o?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ma.lo/, [?m??l?]

Verb

m?l? (present infinitive m?lle, perfect active m?lu?); irregular conjugation, irregular, no passive, no imperative

1. I prefer, want more or instead

Conjugation

Descendants

• Old French: maloir

Etymology 2

Inflected form of malus (“bad, evil”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ma.lo?/, [?mä??o?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ma.lo/, [?m??l?]

Adjective

mal?

1. masculine dative singular of malus
2. masculine ablative singular of malus
3. neuter dative singular of malus
4. neuter ablative singular of malus

Etymology 3

Inflected form of m?lus (“apple tree”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ma?.lo?/, [?mä???o?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ma.lo/, [?m??l?]

Noun

m?l?

1. dative singular of m?lus
2. ablative singular of m?lus

References

• malo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• malo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• malo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• malo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Samoan

Noun

malo

1. government

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mâlo/
• Hyphenation: ma?lo

Adverb

m?lo (Cyrillic spelling ?????) (+ genitive case)

1. little, few, some
2. slightly, somewhat, vaguely (to a small but perceptible degree)
3. barely, hardly (anyone, anywhere)

Adjective

malo

1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular of mal

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?malo]

Participle

malo

1. neuter singular l-participle of ma?

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mà?l?/
• Hyphenation: ma?lo

Adverb

málo (comparative m?nj, superlative n?jm?nj)

1. (countable) few
2. (uncountable) little
3. a little
4. hardly (anyone, anywhere)

Related terms

Further reading

• “malo”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin malus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?malo/, [?ma.lo]

Adjective

malo (feminine mala, masculine plural malos, feminine plural malas)

1. bad

   Antonym: bueno

2. evil, mean

   Antonym: bueno

3. sick

   Antonyms: aliviado, mejorado

Declension

• Comparative: peor
• Superlatives: malísimo, pésimo

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• Chavacano: malo
• Papiamentu: malu
• ?? Tetelcingo Nahuatl: mölojti?c

Noun

malo m (plural malos, feminine mala, feminine plural malas)

1. bad guy; baddie; bad boy; bad person

Derived terms

• más lento que el caballo del malo

Venda

Numeral

malo

1. eight