mall

Probably from The Mall, a major street in London, England, which was originally a pall mall alley.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mæl/, /mɔːl/
  • Rhymes: -æl, Rhymes: -ɔːl
• (New Zealand, General American, New England, General Australian) IPA^(key): /mɔːl/
  • Rhymes: -ɔːl
  • Homophone: maul

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    • (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /mɑl/
      • Homophone: moll
      • Rhymes: -ɑːl

mall (countable and uncountable, plural malls)

1. (chiefly Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand) A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct. [from 20th c.]
   • 1950 August 15, Philip Hampson, “Field's Plans 15 to 20 Million Shopping Center for Skokie”, in Chicago Daily Tribune‎, page 1:

     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.

   • 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.

2. 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.

3. (obsolete) An alley where the game of pall mall was played. [17th–19th c.]
4. A public walk; a level shaded walk, a promenade. [from 18th c.]
   • 1820, Robert Southey, The Life of Wesley; and Rise and Progress of Methodism:

     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.

5. A heavy wooden mallet or hammer 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 […]

6. (obsolete) The game of polo. [17th c.]
7. (obsolete) An old game played with malls or mallets and balls; pall mall. [17th–19th c.]
   • 1675, Charles Cotton, Burlesque upon Burlesque:

     But playing with the Boy ar Mall,
     (I rue the Time, and ever shall)
     I struck the Ball, I know not how

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

• mall at OneLook Dictionary Search
• “mall”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

• IPA^(key): [maɫ]

mall m (indefinite plural malle, definite singular malli, definite plural mallet)

1. Alternative form of mal (“mountain”)

Borrowed from Turkish mal.

mall m (indefinite plural mallra, definite singular malli, definite plural mallrat)

1. goods

   Synonym: çeshit

From Proto-Albanian *mala, 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”). Alternatively, from Latin malum.[1] [2]

mall m (indefinite plural malle, definite singular malli, definite plural mallet)

1. longing, missing, nostalgia

mall m

1. haste

From Latin malleus.

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

mall m (plural malls)

1. hammer

• mallar

• mal·leable
• mal·lèol
• mallol

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

Unadapted borrowing from English mall.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmol/, [ˈmul̪]

mall

1. mall; shopping center
2. (by extension) department store

From Old Irish mall; see there.

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

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.

From Proto-Celtic *malnos (“slow, lazy”), of uncertain derivation, but perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *mel- (“to be late, hesitate”) + *-nós; compare Ancient Greek μέλλω (méllō, “be late”).[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈmal͈/

mall (comparative mailliu, superlative maillem)

1. slow
   • c. 700–800, Táin Bó Cúailnge, from the Yellow Book of Lecan, published in The Táin Bó Cúailnge from the Yellow Book of Lecan, with variant readings from the Lebor na hUidre (1912, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, and Co.), edited by John Strachan and James George O'Keeffe, TBC-I 3537

     Nirbo mailli[u] do·lotar olmbátar in charpait.

     [The men] who arrived [on foot] were no slower than the men on chariots.

2. tardy, late
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 5^c5

     Dos·n-icfa cobir, cid mall. Bith maith immurgu intain dond·iccfa.

     Help will come, although it may be slow to do so. [The help] will be good, however, when it does arrive.

• utmall

• Middle Irish: mall
  • Irish: mall
  • Manx: moal
  • Scottish Gaelic: mall

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “mall”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Unadapted borrowing from English mall.

mall n (plural malluri)

1. shopping mall, shopping centre

From Old Irish mall; see above.

• IPA^(key): /mauɫ/

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

• luath no mall
• ruigidh each mall muileann

• Edward Dwelly (1911), “mall”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language (John Grant, Edinburgh, 1925, Compiled by Malcolm MacLennan)

Borrowed from English.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmol/ [ˈmol]
• Rhymes: -ol

mall m (plural malls)

1. mall (shopping centre)

• IPA^(key): /ˈmal/

mall c

1. a template

   Synonym: schablon

Unadapted borrowing from English mall.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmol/, [ˈmol]

mall

1. mall; shopping center

• “mall”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018