malle

Alternative forms

• maul, mall, mawle

Noun

malle (plural malles)

1. A heavy hammer or beetle, often made of wood or lead.
   • 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons (page 52)

     There is also an entry of two hundred Malles in a store house at Berwick.

Anagrams

• Amell, lamel

Noun

malle c (singular definite mallen, plural indefinite maller)

1. catfish

Etymology

From Middle French malle, from Old French male (“leather bag, leather or wooden travel-case”), from Frankish *malha (“leather bag”), from Proto-Germanic *malhō (“leather bag”), from Proto-Indo-European *molko- (“leather bag”). Cognate with Old High German malha, malaha (“leather bag”), Middle Dutch male (“trunk, travel bag”). More at mail.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mal/

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Noun

malle f (plural malles)

1. large suitcase; trunk

   Sors tes habits de la malle et range-les dans l'armoire !

   Take your clothes out of the suitcase and put them away in the cupboard!

Further reading

• “malle” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Alternative forms

• mal, mallo, manle, manlle

Etymology

From Latin manualis (“manual”); cognate with Portuguese mangual.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaʎe̝/

References

• “malle” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “malle” in Santamarina, Antón (coord.): Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
• “mallo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Verb

mālle

1. present active infinitive of malo

Noun

malle (using Unified Alphabet)

1. uncle

Noun

malle f (oblique plural malles, nominative singular malle, nominative plural malles)

1. large chest or trunk

Verb

malle

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of mallar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of mallar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of mallar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of mallar.