different between mall vs nall

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

Either from Icelandic nál (“needle”), or from an awl, like newt, from ewt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n??l/

Noun

nall (plural nalls)

1. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) An awl.