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Malle

Malle

See also: malle and mallé

Estonian

Proper noun

Malle

  1. A female given name, from a diminutive of Maarja / Maria.

malle

malle

See also: Malle and mallé

English

Alternative forms

Noun

malle (plural malles)

  1. A heavy hammer or beetle, often made of wood or lead.
    • 1786: The is also an entry of two hundred Malles in a store house at Berwick. — Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 52.

Danish

Noun

malle c (singular definite mallen, plural indefinite maller)

  1. catfish

Inflection


French

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

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!

Derived terms

Descendants


Latin

Verb

mālle

  1. present active infinitive of malo

Mapudungun

Noun

malle (using Unified Alphabet)

  1. uncle

Old French

Noun

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

  1. large chest or trunk

Spanish

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.