Mal

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See also Mal, mäl, mål, mâl

Contents 1 English 1.1 Noun 1.1.1 Etymology 1.1.2 Usage note 1.2 Prefix 1.3 See also 2 Albanian 2.1 Etymology 2.2 Noun 3 Dutch 3.1 Pronunciation 3.2 Noun 3.3 Adjective 4 French 4.1 Etymology 4.2 Pronunciation 4.3 Noun 4.4 Adverb 4.5 Adjective 4.5.1 Synonyms 4.6 See also 5 German 5.1 Combining form 6 Icelandic 6.1 Noun 7 Interlingua 7.1 Etymology 7.2 Adjective 7.3 Adverb 7.4 Noun 8 Kurdish 8.1 Noun 9 Romanian 9.1 Etymology 9.2 Noun 10 Swedish 10.1 Noun 10.2 Verb 10.2.1 Related words 11 Turkish 11.1 Etymology 11.2 Noun

English

Noun

Etymology

French mal, illness.

mal

1. Illness, affliction.

Usage note

Used only in set phrases such as grand mal.

Prefix

mal-

1. as in maladjusted, malcontent

See also

• malicious
• Mal

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Albanian

Etymology

A substratum word, akin to Romanian mal

Noun

mal m. (def. sing. mali, def. pl. malet)

1. mount

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Dutch

Pronunciation

IPA	/mɑl/
SAMPA	/mAl/

Noun

mal f (plural: mallen, diminutive: malletje, plural diminutive: malletjes)

What are the translations?

1. A device to help drawing shapes
2. A device to help shaping objects in plaster or plastics etc.

Adjective

mal (malle)

1. funny, crazy

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French

Etymology

Old French mal, from Latin malus, derived from Proto-Indo-European *mel- "bad, wrong". Near cognates include Spanish malo and Italian male.

Pronunciation

IPA	/mal/
SAMPA

Noun

mal m (plural maux)

1. trouble, difficulty

   J'ai du mal à m'imaginer celà - I have trouble imagining that.

2. pain

   J'ai mal à la tête - My head hurts or I have a headache.

3. evil

Adverb

mal

1. badly

Adjective

mal

1. bad (only in sayings)

   bon an, mal an

   bon gré, mal gré

   Il est mal de / C'est mal de +infinitive

Synonyms

• mauvais
• méchant
• vilain
• laid
• merdique (vulgar slang)

See also

• pas mal
• malade
• maladie
• malaise
• mal-aimé
• maladroit
• malheur
• malfaisant

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German

Combining form

-mal

1. times

   zweimal - two times, twice

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Icelandic

Noun

mal

1. language

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Interlingua

Etymology

From Latin malus

Adjective

mal

1. bad
2. evil

Adverb

mal

1. badly, poorly
2. wrongfully, mis-

Noun

1. bad, badness, something bad
2. evil
3. illness
4. pain, ache

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Kurdish

Noun

mal f

1. home, house

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Romanian

Etymology

Dacian *mala or *malwa (attested in 'Dacia Maluensis') (< PIE *molH-). Has an Albanian cognate, mal, which means "mountain".

Noun

mal pl maluri

1. shore

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Swedish

Noun

mal c (pl malar, def sing malen, def pl malarna)

1. moth
2. wels catfish (Silurus glanis)

Verb

mal

1. Present tense of mala
2. Imperative of mala.

Related words

• malström

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Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic

Noun

mal

1. assetset:mal

el:mal es:mal fr:mal ko:mal io:mal id:mal it:mal he:mal ku:mal nl:mal nds:mal ja:mal pl:mal pt:mal fi:mal sv:mal