mahala

English

Noun

mahala (plural mahalas)

A neighborhood or residential area in Balkan countries.

Romanian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish محله‎ (mahalle), from Arabic مَحَلَّة‎ (maḥalla).

Noun

mahala f (plural mahalale)

neighborhood
suburb
people who live in a suburb

Declension

declension of mahala

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(o) mahala	mahalaua	(niște) mahalale	mahalalele
genitive/dative	(unei) mahalale	mahalalei	(unor) mahalale	mahalalelor
vocative	mahala		mahalalelor

Derived terms

mahalagiu
mahalagioaică

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish محله‎ (mahalle), from Arabic مَحَلَّة‎ (maḥalla).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mǎxala/
Hyphenation: ma‧ha‧la

Noun

màhala f (Cyrillic spelling ма̀хала)

(regional) city block
(regional) street

Declension

Declension of mahala

	singular	plural
nominative	màhala	mahale
genitive	mahale	mȁhālā
dative	mahali	mahalama
accusative	mahalu	mahale
vocative	mahalo	mahale
locative	mahali	mahalama
instrumental	mahalom	mahalama

Synonyms

(city block): četvrt
(city block): kvart (regional)
(street): ulica

Swahili

Noun

mahala (pa class, plural mahala)

Alternative form of pahali

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