maalin

English

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Finnish

Noun

maalin

1. genitive singular of maali

Anagrams

• ilmaan, ilmana, limaan, limana, mailan, malina, manila

Scots

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English merlioun.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: maa‧lin

Noun

maalin (plural maalins) (Shetland)

1. (zoology) a hawk, especially the merlin, sparrow hawk or kestrel

References

• “maalin”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

Further reading

• “Maalin”, in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2026, sourced from Noah Porter, editor, Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary of the English Dictionary, London: George Bell & Sons and Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam Company, 1913, →OCLC, retrieved 28 March 2026: “The sparrow hawk.”
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1914), “maalin, n.”, in The Century Dictionary […], volumes III (Hoop–O), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 3557, column 2: “A dialectal form of merlin. [Shetland.]”
• “Maalin, n.”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC, retrieved 28 March 2026: “(a) The sparrow hawk. (b) The kestrel.”
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “maalin, n.”, in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to XII), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 3557, column 2: “A dialectal form of merlin. [Shetland.]”

Somali

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Somaloid *maalím (“day”), of Ethiopian Semitic origin. Compare Ge'ez ሞዐልት (moʿält, “day”) and Tigrinya መዓልቲ (mäʿalti, “day”). Related to maanta.

Cognate with Maay maaléng, Dabarre maalan, Rendille maalim, Aweer maale.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɑ̀ːˈlɪ́n/

Noun

maalín f (plural maalmó, definite maalinta)

1. daytime

   Synonym: casho, Antonym: habeen

Descendants

• → Jiiddu: maalin

References

• Reinisch, Leo (1902), Die Somali-Sprache (in German), volume 2, Wien, Austria, page 296