See also: Malle and mallé

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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.

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Etymology

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From Low German malle, presumably corrupted from Middle Low German walre, itself related to hval.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmalə/, [ˈmælə]

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malle c (singular definite mallen, plural indefinite maller)

  1. catfish

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Dutch

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmɑ.lə/
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  • Hyphenation: mal‧le
  • Rhymes: -ɑlə

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malle

  1. inflection of mal:
    1. indefinite masculine and feminine singular
    2. indefinite plural
    3. definite

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malle m or f (plural mallen)

  1. someone who acts silly

Estonian

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malle

  1. illative singular of male

French

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Etymology

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Inherited 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.

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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!

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  • Portuguese: mala

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Galician

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Peasants using malles ("flails") to thresh cereal

Etymology 1

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

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malle m (plural malles)

  1. flail
  2. handle of the flail
    Synonyms: mango, mangueira, moca
  3. hammer

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Verb

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malle

  1. inflection of mallar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

German

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From Low German mall, from Middle Low German mal, of uncertain origin. Cognate with Dutch mal.

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malle (strong nominative masculine singular maller, comparative maller, superlative am mallsten)

  1. (colloquial, chiefly predicative) mad, crazy, not quite right, whimsical
    Synonyms: verrückt, irre, bekloppt, bescheuert, durchgeknallt, plemplem
    Die Idee ist doch komplett malle.That idea is completely mad!
    Ich werd hier noch malle!I’m about to go crazy in here!

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Latin

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mālle

  1. present active infinitive of mālō

Mapudungun

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malle (Unified spelling)

  1. uncle

Middle English

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malle

  1. Alternative form of malwe

Old French

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Of Germanic origin, probably from Frankish *malhu (leather bag).

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

  1. large chest or trunk

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malle

  1. inflection of mallar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative