hall

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English halle, from Old English heall (hall, dwelling, house; palace, temple; law-court), 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).

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ɔːl
  • Homophone: haul

Noun

hall (plural halls)

  1. A corridor; a hallway.
    The drinking fountain was out in the hall.
    • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 13, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
      We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time.
  2. A 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.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Cowell to this entry?)
  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.
    • (Can we date this quote by Ben Jonson and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?), Tale of a Tub
      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.

Derived terms

Translations

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Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)kel- (compare English shallow, Middle High German hel (tired, weak), Ancient Greek σκέλλω (skéllō, to dry up), σκληρός (sklērós, hard, harsh)).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

hall m (plural halle, definite halli, definite plural hallet)

  1. trouble

References

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “hall”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 141

Chinese

Etymology

From English hall.

Pronunciation

Noun

(deprecated template usage) hall

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

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English hall. Doublet of hal.

Pronunciation

Noun

hall c (singular definite hallen, plural indefinite haller)

  1. hall (a corridor or a hallway)

Inflection


Estonian

Etymology 1

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhɑlː/, [ˈ(h)ɑlː]

Noun

hall (genitive halla, partitive halla)

  1. frost
Declension

Etymology 2

From Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 2 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "fiu-fin-pro" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. (compare Finnish halli), from Balto-Slavic. Compare Latvian salnis, Lithuanian šalnis (off-white, roan)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhɑlʲl/, [ˈ(h)ɑlʲl]

Adjective

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

  1. grey (color)
Declension

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Derived terms

See also

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

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhɑlʲl/, [ˈ(h)ɑlʲl]

Noun

hall (genitive halli, partitive halli)

  1. hall (large room or building)
Declension

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from English hall.

Pronunciation

Noun

hall m (plural halls)

  1. hall

Further reading


German

Pronunciation

Verb

hall

  1. (deprecated template usage) Imperative singular of hallen.
  2. (colloquial) (deprecated template usage) First-person singular present of hallen.

Hungarian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From the coincidence[1] of the Proto-Uralic *kontale- (compare Old Hungarian hadl (hear), Mansi, Finnish kuunnella) and Proto-Uralic *kule- (compare Mansi and Finnish kuulla).

Verb

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.
Conjugation
Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Entry #386 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.

Further reading

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

Etymology 2

Borrowed from German Halle.[1]

Noun

hall (plural hallok)

  1. middle-sized, windowless room, entryway, hallway (in a private flat/apartment, with a size not smaller than 8 m² [9.5 yd²], with space for people, but without affording them privacy due to its being an entry to other rooms)[2][3][4][5][6][7]
    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
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
Derived terms

References

  1. ^ 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
  2. ^ Az előszobát követő, a helyiségek előterét alkotó ablaktalan lakóhelyiség neve hall, melynek területe minimum 8 négyzetméter. Minden, amit tudni akartál a lakásokról, de soha nem mertél megkérdezni
  3. ^ Ablaktalan, 8-10 négyzetméternél nem kisebb helyiség, funkciója csupán annyi, 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. Az alkóvtól a manzárdig – ingatlanos kisszótár
  4. ^ Egy olyan ablaktalan helyiség, ahonnan ajtók nyílnak a többi szobába. A nagykönyv szerint legalább 8-10 négyzetméteres kell, hogy legyen, de a valóságban a panellakásokban ritkán érik el ezt a méretet. Mindenképpen egy olyan közlekedő, ami hasznosítható. Nem keverendő össze az előszobával, de legtöbbször az előszoba a hallba vezet. 20 ingatlanos kifejezés, amivel jó, ha tisztában vagy
  5. ^ 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
  6. ^ <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 (“An Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN, quoted below.
  7. ^ Lakásban (az előszoba után) a helyiségek előterét alkotó (ablaktalan) (lakó)helyiség. 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

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

Ludian

Etymology

Akin to Finnish halla.

Noun

hall

  1. frost

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse hǫll.

Noun

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

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

Derived terms

References


Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hǫll. Akin to English hall.

Noun

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

  1. a hall (a building or very large room)
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Norse hallr.

Noun

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

  1. a slope, sloping terrain
Derived terms

References


Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English hall.

Pronunciation

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Noun

hall m (plural s)

  1. (architecture) lobby; entrance hall (room in a building used for entry from the outside)

Derived terms


Spanish

Noun

hall m (plural halls)

  1. hall, lobby, lounge

Swedish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

hall c

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

Declension

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

References

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

Westrobothnian

Etymology 1

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Adjective

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  1. sloping, inclined, oblique

Derived terms

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Etymology 2

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Noun

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  1. area where no particularly large forest exist