mall
English

Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /mæl/, /mɔːl/
- Rhymes: -æl, Rhymes: -ɔːl
- (General New Zealand, US (varieties without the cot-caught merger), New England, General Australian) IPA(key): /mɔːl/
- Rhymes: -ɔːl
- Homophone: maul with -awl pronunciation
- (US (varieties with the cot-caught merger), Canada) IPA(key): /mɑl/
Audio (US) (file) - Homophone: moll
- Rhymes: -ɑːl
Audio (AU) (file)
Noun
mall (countable and uncountable, plural malls)
- (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.
- 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.
- 2004, Ralph E. Warner, Get a Life: You Don′t Need a Million to Retire Well, unnumbered page,
- (obsolete) An alley where the game of pall mall was played. [17th-19th c.]
- A public walk; a level shaded walk, a promenade. [from 18th c.]
- Southey
- 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.
- Southey
- 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 […]
- 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner:
- (obsolete) The game of polo. [17th c.]
- (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
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Verb
mall (third-person singular simple present malls, present participle malling, simple past and past participle malled)
References
- mall at OneLook Dictionary Search
- mall in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Albanian
Etymology 2
From Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“black”), compare zi (“black, mourning, sadness”) and mallëngjej (“to touch emotionally, to move”). Alternatively from Proto-Albanian *malwa, close to Sanskrit मल्व (malvá, “foolish, thoughtless, unwise”), Middle Low German mall (“stupid, foolish”), West Frisian māl (“foolish, mad”).
Breton
Catalan
Further reading
- “mall” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Cebuano
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish mall, from Proto-Celtic *malnos, from Proto-Indo-European *mel-; compare Ancient Greek μέλλω (méllō, “be late”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
mall (genitive singular masculine mall, genitive singular feminine moille, plural malla, comparative moille)
- slow
- Ní fhanann trá le fear mall. ― An ebb does not wait for a slow man.
Declension
Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
Nominative | mall | mhall | malla; mhalla² | |
Vocative | mhall | malla | ||
Genitive | moille | malla | mall | |
Dative | mall; mhall¹ |
mhall; mhall (archaic) |
malla; mhalla² | |
Comparative | níos moille | |||
Superlative | is moille |
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Mutation
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
mall | mhall | not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Scottish Gaelic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mauɫ/
Adjective
mall
Derived terms
Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
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Radical | Lenition |
mall | mhall |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
- Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language (John Grant, Edinburgh, 1925, Compiled by Malcolm MacLennan)
Swedish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmal/