mall

Etymology

Probably a specialised use of maul. Compare pall mall.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mæl/ or IPA^(key): /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)

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  • Homophone: moll
  • Rhymes: -ɑːl

Noun

mall (plural malls)

1. Place used to play game of pall-mall, and related senses.
   1. (obsolete) The alley where the game of pall mall was played. [17th-19th c.]
   2. 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.

   3. (chiefly Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand) A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct. [from 20th c.]
      • 1950 The preliminary plans provide for one million square feet of selling space in three main buildings and a double row of shops along a central shopping mall. Chicago Tribune, 1950-08-05, p. 1.
      • 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.

   4. 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.

2. Hammer used to play game of pall-mall, and related senses.
   1. The heavy wooden mallet 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 […].

   2. (obsolete) The game of polo. [17th c.]
   3. (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?)

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.

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Turkish mal.

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”).

Noun

mall m

1. haste

Etymology

From Latin malleus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈmaʎ/
• Rhymes: -aʎ

Noun

mall m (plural malls)

1. hammer

Further reading

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

Etymology

Borrowed from English mall.

Etymology

From Old Irish mall, from Proto-Celtic *malnos, from Proto-Indo-European *mel-; compare Ancient Greek μέλλω (méllō, “be late”).

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /mˠɑul̪ˠ/
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /mˠɑːl̪ˠ/ (Galway); IPA^(key): /mˠal̪ˠ/ (Mayo)
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /mˠal̪ˠ/

Adjective

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

1. slow

   Ní fhanann trá le fear mall.

   An ebb does not wait for a slow man.

Mutation

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mauɫ/

Adjective

mall

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

   feasgar mall 's na h-eòin a' seinn - a calm evening and the birds warbling

6. dull, senseless

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)

Etymology

Borrowed from English.

Noun

mall m (plural malls)

1. mall (shopping centre)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmal/

Noun

mall c

1. a template

   Synonym: schablon