mall

See also: Mall

English

A mall (shopping center).

Etymology

Probably a specialised use of maul. Compare pall mall.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mæl/, /mɔːl/
  • Rhymes: -æl, Rhymes: -ɔːl
• IPA^(key): /mɔːl/
  • Rhymes: -ɔːl
  • Homophone: maul with -awl pronunciation
• IPA^(key): /mɑl/

• Audio (US):

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  • Homophone: moll
  • Rhymes: -ɑːl

• Audio (AU):

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Noun

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^[1], 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.]
   • Southey

     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.]

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Derived terms

• mallcore
• mallgoth
• mall rat
• shopping mall

 

Translations

alley where the game of pall mall was played

• French: mail (fr) m
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public walk ; level shaded walkway

• French: mail (fr) m
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pedestrianized street

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 步行街 (zh) (bùxíngjiē)

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• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

enclosed shopping centre

• Afrikaans: winkelsentrum
• Arabic: مَرْكَز تَسَوِّق m (markaz tasawwiq), مَرْكَز تِجَارِيّ m (markaz tijāriyy), مُول m (mūl)

  Hijazi Arabic: مول m (mōl)

• Belarusian: гандлёвы цэнтр m (handljóvy centr)
• Bulgarian: търго́вски це́нтър m (tǎrgóvski céntǎr)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 購物中心／购物中心 (zh) (gòuwù zhōngxīn), 购物中心 (zh) (gòuwù zhòngxīn), 商場／商场 (zh) (shāngchǎng), 商场 (zh) (shāngchǎng)

• Dutch: winkelcentrum (nl) n
• Esperanto: vendejaro
• Finnish: ostoskeskus (fi)
• French: centre commercial (fr) m, mail (fr) m (Quebec)
• German: Einkaufszentrum (de) n
• Greek: εμπορικό κέντρο (el) n (emporikó kéntro)
• Hebrew: קַנְיוֹן (he) m (kanyon)
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• Hindi: शॉपिंग सेंटर (śŏpiṅg sẽṭar)
• Hungarian: pláza (hu), bevásárlóközpont (hu)
• Japanese: モール (ja) (mōru), ショッピングセンター (shoppingusentā)
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• Korean: 쇼핑 센터 (syoping senteo)
• Macedonian: тр́говски це́нтар m (tŕgovski céntar)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kjøpesenter (no) n

• Persian: مرکز خرید (markaz-e xarid)
• Portuguese: centro comercial m, shopping (pt) m
• Russian: торго́вый центр (ru) m (torgóvyj centr), молл (ru) m (moll)
• Spanish: centro comercial (es) m
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: alışveriş merkezi, AVM (tr)
• Ukrainian: торго́вий центр m (torhóvyj centr)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
• Zazaki: mêl

heavy wooden mallet used in the game of pall mall

• French: mail (fr) m
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old game played with malls or mallets and balls — see pall mall

Verb

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

References

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

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Albanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [maɫ]

Noun

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

1. Alternative form of mal (“mountain”)

Declension

Declension of mall

	indefinite		definite
	singular	plural	singular	plural
nominative	mall	malle	malli	mallet
accusative			mallin
dative	malli	malleve	mallit	malleve
ablative		mallesh

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Turkish mal.

Noun

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

1. goods

   Synonym: çeshit

Declension

Declension of mall

	indefinite		definite
	singular	plural	singular	plural
nominative	mall	mallra	malli	mallrat
accusative			mallin
dative	malli	mallrave	mallit	mallrave
ablative		mallrash

Etymology 2

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”).

Noun

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

1. longing, missing, nostalgia

Declension

Declension of mall

	indefinite		definite
	singular	plural	singular	plural
nominative	mall	malle	malli	mallet
accusative			mallin
dative	malli	malleve	mallit	malleve
ablative		mallesh

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Breton

Noun

mall m

1. haste

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin malleus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmaʎ]
• Rhymes: -aʎ

Noun

mall m (plural malls)

1. hammer

Further reading

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

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Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from English mall.

Noun

mall

1. a shopping mall
2. (by extension) a department store

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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish mall, from Proto-Celtic *malnos, from Proto-Indo-European *mel-; compare Ancient Greek μέλλω (méllō, “be late”).

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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.

Declension

Declension of mall

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	mall	mhall	malla; mhalla²
Vocative	mhall		malla
Genitive		moille	malla	mall
Dative	mall; mhall¹	mhall; mhall (archaic)	malla; mhalla²
Comparative	níos moille
Superlative	is moille

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
mall	mhall	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mauɫ/

Adjective

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

Derived terms

• luath no mall
• ruigidh each mall muileann

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “mall”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[2], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language (John Grant, Edinburgh, 1925, Compiled by Malcolm MacLennan)

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmol/ [ˈmol]

Noun

mall m (plural malls)

1. mall (shopping centre)

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Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmal/

Noun

mall c

1. a template

   Synonym: schablon

Declension

Declension of mall
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	mall	mallen	mallar	mallarna
Genitive	malls	mallens	mallars	mallarnas

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