ماله

Borrowed from Persian ماله‎ (mâle, “trowel, harrow”).

ماله • (mala)

1. trowel, a plasterer's tool used in spreading and dressing mortar
2. (in general) any instrument for rubbing down and smoothing

• Turkish: mala
• → Armenian: մալա (mala), մա̈լա̈ (mälä)

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “mala1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3034
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “ماله”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1095
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• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “ماله”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 4249
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “mala”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “ماله”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1662

• مالچ‎ (mâleč), مالش‎ (mâleš)

From Middle Persian *mālag, whence also Arabic مَالَج‎ (mālaj), مَالَق‎ (mālaq, “trowel”) and مَيْلَق‎ (maylaq, “touchstone, whetstone”); from the stem of مالیدن‎ (mâlidan, “to rub, to smooth, to polish”).

• (Classical Persian): IPA^(key): /mɑːla/

• (Dari): IPA^(key): /mɒːla/

• (Iranian Persian): IPA^(key): /mɒːle/
• (Tajik): IPA^(key): /mɔːla/

ماله • (mâle)

1. anything with which ground is smoothed; trowel; harrow

• → Ottoman Turkish: ماله‎ (mala)
  • Turkish: mala
  • → Armenian: մալա (mala), մա̈լա̈ (mälä)

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “ماله”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864), “ماله”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum (in Latin), volume II, Bonn: Adolf Marcus, page 1123