hall

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See also: háll, håll, Hall, häll, and Häll

English

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Etymology

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Inherited from Middle English halle, from Old English heall (hall, dwelling, house; palace, temple; law-court), from Proto-West Germanic *hallu, from Proto-Germanic *hallō (hall), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (to hide, conceal).

Cognate with Scots hall, haw (hall), Dutch hal (hall), German Halle (hall), Norwegian hall (hall), Swedish hall (hall), Icelandic höll (palace), Latin cella (room, cell), Sanskrit शाला (śā́lā, house, mansion, hall). Doublet of cell and cella.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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hall (plural halls)

  1. A corridor; a hallway.
    The drinking fountain was out in the hall.
  2. A large meeting room.
    The hotel had three halls for conferences, and two were in use by the convention.
  3. A manor house (originally because a magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion).
    The duke lived in a great hall overlooking the sea.
  4. A building providing student accommodation at a university.
    The student government hosted several social events so that students from different halls would intermingle.
  5. The principal room of a secular medieval building.
  6. (obsolete) Cleared passageway through a crowd, as for dancing.
    • 1633 (first performance), Ben Jonson, “A Tale of a Tub. A Comedy []”, in The Works of Beniamin Jonson, [] (Third Folio), London: [] Thomas Hodgkin, for H[enry] Herringman, E. Brewster, T. Bassett, R[ichard] Chiswell, M. Wotton, G. Conyers, published 1692, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
      Then cry, a hall, a hall! Come, father Rosin, with your fiddle now.
  7. A place for special professional education, or for conferring professional degrees or licences.
    a Divinity Hall; Apothecaries' Hall
  8. (India) A living room.
  9. (Oxbridge) A college's canteen, which is often but not always coterminous with a traditional hall.
  10. (Oxbridge slang) A meal served and eaten at a college's hall.

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Greek: χολ (chol), χωλ (chol), χωλλ (choll)
  • Japanese: ホール (hōru)
  • Korean: (hol)
  • Russian: холл (xoll)

Translations

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Albanian

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish حال (hal, situation; grief).

Noun

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hall m (plural halle) (colloquial)

  1. difficult situation, difficulty, trouble, misery, plight
    Synonyms: ngushticë, mundim, nevojë
  2. concern, vexing issue
    Synonym: shqetësim
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Adverb

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hall (colloquial)

  1. badly, wrongly
    Synonym: keq
    hall kështu, hall ashtu.(please add an English translation of this usage example)

References

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  • “hall”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[1] (in Albanian), 1980, page 643ab
  • Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “hall1”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 184f.
  • Mann, S. E. (1948) “hall”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 153a
  • Meyer, G. (1891) “hał”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 145

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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish حل (hal, solution).

Noun

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hall m (plural halle) (colloquial)

  1. solution, way out
    Synonyms: zgjidhje, rrugëdalje

References

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  • “hall”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[2] (in Albanian), 1980, page 643ab
  • Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “hall2”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 185

Chinese

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English hall.

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Noun

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hall

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) assembly hall; auditorium
  2. (Hong Kong Cantonese) residence hall; dormitory

Danish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English hall. Doublet of hal.

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Noun

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hall c (singular definite hallen, plural indefinite haller)

  1. hall (a corridor or a hallway)

Inflection

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East Central German

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Etymology

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Compare German hell.

Adjective

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hall

  1. (Erzgebirgisch) clear, bright, light
    an hallrlichtrn Tooch
    in broad daylight (lit. at bright-light day)

References

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  • 2004 Karl Heinz Schmidt, Ich putz mein Christbaam aa, P. 14

Further reading

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  • 2020 June 11, Hendrik Heidler, Hendrik Heidler's 400 Seiten: Echtes Erzgebirgisch: Wuu de Hasen Hoosn haaßn un de Hosen Huusn do sei mir drhamm: Das Original Wörterbuch: Ratgeber und Fundgrube der erzgebirgischen Mund- und Lebensart: Erzgebirgisch – Deutsch / Deutsch – Erzgebirgisch[3], 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 57:

Estonian

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Proto-Finnic *halla.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈhɑlː/, [ˈ(h)ɑlː]

Noun

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hall (genitive halla, partitive halla)

  1. frost
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Etymology 2

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Inherited from Proto-Finnic *halli (compare Finnish halli), from Balto-Slavic. Compare Latvian salnis, Lithuanian šalnis (off-white, roan).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈhɑlʲː/, [ˈ(h)ɑlʲː]

Adjective

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hall (genitive halli, partitive halli, comparative hallim, superlative kõige hallim)

  1. grey (color)
Declension
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Declension of hall (ÕS type 22e/riik, length gradation)
singular plural
nominative hall hallid
accusative nom.
gen. halli
genitive hallide
partitive halli halle
hallisid
illative halli
hallisse
hallidesse
hallesse
inessive hallis hallides
halles
elative hallist hallidest
hallest
allative hallile hallidele
hallele
adessive hallil hallidel
hallel
ablative hallilt hallidelt
hallelt
translative halliks hallideks
halleks
terminative hallini hallideni
essive hallina hallidena
abessive hallita hallideta
comitative halliga hallidega
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See also

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Colors in Estonian · värvid (layout · text)
     valge      hall      must
             punane; karmiinpunane              oranž; pruun              kollane; kreem
             laimiroheline, kollakasroheline              roheline              mündiroheline; tumeroheline
             tsüaansinine, rohekassinine; sinakasroheline, siniroheline              taevasinine, taevassinine              sinine
             lilla, violetne; potisinine, indigosinine              fuksia, magentapunane; lilla, purpurne, purpurpunane              roosa

Etymology 3

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German Halle.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈhɑlʲː/, [ˈ(h)ɑlʲː]

Noun

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hall (genitive halli, partitive halli)

  1. hall (a large room or building)
Declension
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Declension of hall (ÕS type 22e/riik, length gradation)
singular plural
nominative hall hallid
accusative nom.
gen. halli
genitive hallide
partitive halli halle
hallisid
illative halli
hallisse
hallidesse
hallesse
inessive hallis hallides
halles
elative hallist hallidest
hallest
allative hallile hallidele
hallele
adessive hallil hallidel
hallel
ablative hallilt hallidelt
hallelt
translative halliks hallideks
halleks
terminative hallini hallideni
essive hallina hallidena
abessive hallita hallideta
comitative halliga hallidega

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French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English hall.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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hall m (plural halls)

  1. hall
    • 2018 July 6, “Bonaparte”, in Elh Kmer (lyrics), Antidote:
      Les keufs barodent
      Parce qu’ils barodent, j’suis caché dans l’hall
      The pigs walk around
      And because they walk around I am hidden in the hall
  2. lobby

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German

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Verb

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hall

  1. singular imperative of hallen
  2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of hallen

Hungarian

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From the conflation[1] of Proto-Uralic *kontale- (compare Old Hungarian hadl (hear), Northern Mansi хӯнтлуӈкве (hūntluňkve), Finnish kuunnella) and Proto-Uralic *kule- (compare Northern Mansi хӯлуӈкве (hūluňkve) and Finnish kuulla).

Verb

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hall

  1. (intransitive) to hear (to perceive sounds through the ear)
  2. (transitive) to hear (to perceive with the ear)
    Hallottam egy hangot a szobából.I heard a sound from the room.
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This verb is a member of one of those (few) quasi-homonymous verb pairs that exist both with and without an -ik ending. All (intransitive) suffixed forms of these pairs are identical (sometimes they can even have derived forms that coincide), with the exception of their dictionary form (the third-person singular indicative present, with or without -ik). However, the meaning of these pairs is usually distinct, sometimes unrelated. Examples include (fel)áldoz(le)áldozik, bánbánik, (meg)bíz(meg)bízik, érérik, esz (rare)eszik, hajolhajlik, (felül)múl(el)múlik, (hozzá)nyúlnyúlik, (el)vesz(el)veszik~(el)vész, and törtörik (along with their verbal prefixes), hallhallik (archaic), érezérzik (archaic), sometimes with some difference: (el)hibázhibádzik, (le)torkoltorkollik. Therefore one may well need to check the context and the arguments to ascertain which member of the verb pair is relevant.

Conjugation
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(With verbal prefixes):

Expressions

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from German Halle.[2]

Noun

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hall (plural hallok)

  1. middle-sized, windowless room, entryway, hallway (in a private flat/apartment, with a size not smaller than 8 m² [86 sq ft], with space for people, but without affording them privacy due to its being an entry to other rooms)[3][4][5][6][7][8]
    Synonym: előtér
    Coordinate terms: szoba, helyiség, félszoba, alkóv, gardrób, előszoba, hálószoba, nappali
  2. lobby, foyer, lounge (e.g. in a hotel or an opera house)
    Synonyms: társalgó, előcsarnok
Declension
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Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative hall hallok
accusative hallt hallokat
dative hallnak halloknak
instrumental hallal hallokkal
causal-final hallért hallokért
translative hallá hallokká
terminative hallig hallokig
essive-formal hallként hallokként
essive-modal hallul hallokul
inessive hallban hallokban
superessive hallon hallokon
adessive hallnál halloknál
illative hallba hallokba
sublative hallra hallokra
allative hallhoz hallokhoz
elative hallból hallokból
delative hallról hallokról
ablative halltól halloktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
hallé halloké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
halléi hallokéi
Possessive forms of hall
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. hallom halljaim
2nd person sing. hallod halljaid
3rd person sing. hallja halljai
1st person plural hallunk halljaink
2nd person plural hallotok halljaitok
3rd person plural halljuk halljaik
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References

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  1. ^ Entry #386 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  2. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN
  3. ^ Az előszobát követő, a helyiségek előterét alkotó ablaktalan lakóhelyiség neve hall, melynek területe minimum 8 négyzetméter. Minden, amit tudni akartál a lakásokról…
  4. ^ Ablaktalan, 8-10 négyzetméternél nem kisebb helyiség, funkciója (…), hogy a belőle nyíló szobák külön bejáratát biztosítja. Nem tévesztendő össze az előszobával, mivel a hall nem feltétlenül a bejárati ajtó mögött helyezkedik el. Régi, polgári lakások gyakori elrendezése, hogy az előszobából rövid folyosó vezet a hallba. Ingatlanos kisszótár
  5. ^ Egy olyan ablaktalan helyiség, ahonnan ajtók nyílnak a többi szobába. (…) legalább 8‑10 négyzetméteres kell, hogy legyen, de (…) a panellakásokban ritkán érik el ezt a méretet. (…) olyan közlekedő, ami hasznosítható. Nem keverendő össze az előszobával, de legtöbbször az előszoba a hallba vezet. 20 ingatlanos kifejezés…
  6. ^ 'A legfőbb, minden kritikában visszaköszönő érv az volt, hogy a hallos lakás teljesen alkalmatlan gyermekes családok számára, mert nem teszi lehetővé a felnőttek és gyermekek, illetve ez utóbbiak esetében a lányok és fiúk egymástól elkülönített alvását. Az 1930-as évek új lakástípusa: a hallos lakás
  7. ^ <Városi típusú lakásokban> rendsz. a bejárat közelében levő, gyak. ablaktalan nagyobb helyiség, amelyből a többi helyiség nyílik, s amely az előszobával ellentétben tartózkodásra, vendégek fogadására is haszn. és lakható. From hall in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN, quoted below.
  8. ^ Lakásban (az előszoba után) a helyiségek előterét alkotó (ablaktalan) (lakó)helyiség. From hall in Pusztai, Ferenc (ed.). Magyar értelmező kéziszótár (“A Concise Explanatory Dictionary of Hungarian”). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2003. 2nd, expanded and revised edition →ISBN. Online searchable version (under development)

Further reading

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  • (to hear): hall in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
  • (entryway): hall in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Ludian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Finnic *halla, borrowed from Baltic. Cognates include Finnish halla.

Noun

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hall

  1. frost

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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Derived from Old Norse hǫll.

Noun

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hall m (definite singular hallen, indefinite plural haller, definite plural hallene)

  1. hall (a building or very large room)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Derived from Old Norse hǫll. Akin to English hall.

Noun

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hall m (definite singular hallen, indefinite plural hallar, definite plural hallane)
hall f (definite singular halla, indefinite plural haller, definite plural hallene)

  1. hall (a building or very large room)
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Etymology 2

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Derived from Old Norse hallr.

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hall n (definite singular hallet, indefinite plural hall, definite plural halla)

  1. slope, sloping terrain
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Portuguese

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English hall.

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hall m (plural halls)

  1. (architecture) lobby; entrance hall (a room in a building used for entry from the outside)
    Synonyms: átrio, entrada

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Romanian

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Noun

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hall n (plural halluri)

  1. Obsolete form of hol.

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References

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  • hall in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Spanish

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English hall.

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Noun

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hall m (plural halls)

  1. hall, lobby, lounge

Usage notes

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According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

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Swedish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Norse hǫll, from Proto-Germanic *hallō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel-. Compare English hall. Related to Latin cella and English cellar.[1]

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hall c

  1. hallway
  2. lounge
  3. corridor
  4. entryway
  5. short for any of the words:

Usage notes

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Most commonly refers to a small room just inside the front door of a residential building, where shoes and outerwear are taken off or put on.

Declension

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Declension of hall 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative hall hallen hallar hallarna
Genitive halls hallens hallars hallarnas

References

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  1. ^ hall in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)