A mall (shopping center). Probably fromThe Mall , a major street in London, England, which was originally apall mall
mall (countable anduncountable plural malls
( chiefly Canada ,US , Australia , New Zealand ) 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”, inChicago Daily Tribune [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 shoppingmall .
2002 The American City: What Works, What Doesn′t ,page179 :America′s first pedestrianized shoppingmall opened in 1959 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Like most later pedestrianmalls , it was intended to revive what everybody thought was a decaying downtown.
An enclosedshopping centre .[from 20th c.] 2004 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 shoppingmalls .
( obsolete ) alley where the game ofpall mall was played.[17th–19th c.] A public walk; a level shaded walk, apromenade .[from 18th c.] 1820 Robert Southey ,The Life of Wesley; and Rise and Progress of Methodism :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 CityMall .
A heavy woodenmallet orhammer used in the game ofpall 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 themall which he held in his hand, until my blood flowed copiously[ …]
( obsolete ) polo .[17th c.] ( obsolete ) pall mall .[17th–19th c.] 1675 Charles Cotton ,Burlesque upon Burlesque :But playing with the Boy ar Mall,
alley where the game of pall mall was played
public walk ; level shaded walkway
enclosed shopping centre
Afrikaans:winkelsentrum Arabic:مَرْكَز تَسَوِّق m ( markaz tasawwiq ) ,مَرْكَز تِجَارِيّ m ( markaz tijāriyy ) ,مول m ( mōl ) Hijazi Arabic:مول m ( mōl ) Assyrian Neo-Aramaic:ܩܸܢܛܪܘܿܢ ܫܘܼܩܵܝܵܐ m ( qinṭrōn šuqqāyā ) ,ܩܸܢܛܪܘܿܢ ܬܹܐܓ݂ܘܼܪܬܵܢܵܝܵܐ m ( qinṭrōn tēḡurtānāyā ) ,ܒܹܝܬ ܬܹܐܓ݂ܘܼܪܬܵܐ m ( bēt tēḡurtā ) Belarusian:гандлёвы цэнтр m ( handljóvy centr ) Bulgarian:търго́вски це́нтър m ( tǎrgóvski céntǎr ) Catalan:centre comercial Chinese:Mandarin:購物中心 / 购物中心 (zh) ( gòuwù zhòngxīn ) ,商場 / 商场 (zh) ( shāngchǎng ) Dutch:winkelcentrum (nl) n Esperanto:vendejaro butikumcentro 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 ) Hindi:शॉपिंग सेंटर ( śŏpiṅg sẽṭar ) Hungarian:pláza (hu) ,bevásárlóközpont (hu) Irish:meal m meal siopadóireachta m ionad siopadóireachta m ceantar siopaí m Italian:centro commerciale (it) Japanese:モール (ja) ( mōru ) ,ショッピングセンター (ja) ( shoppingusentā ) Khmer:ផ្សារទំនើប ( phsaa tumnəəp ) Korean:쇼핑 센터 ( syoping senteo ) Macedonian:тр́говски це́нтар m ( tŕgovski céntar ) Maori:whare toatini mōro Marathi:मॉल m ( mŏl ) Norwegian:Bokmål:kjøpesenter (no) n Persian:Iranian Persian:مَرْکَزِ خَرید ( markaz-e xarid ) Portuguese:centro comercial (pt) m shopping (pt) m Romanian:centru comercial n mall n Russian:торго́вый центр (ru) m ( torgóvyj centr ) ,молл (ru) m ( moll ) Spanish:centro comercial (es) m shopping (es) m ( Argentina ) Thai:ศูนย์การค้า ( sǔun-gaan-káa ) ,ห้างสรรพสินค้า (th) ( hâang-sàp-pá-sǐn-káa ) ,ห้าง (th) ( hâang ) Turkish:alışveriş merkezi AVM (tr) Turkmen:söwda merkezi Ukrainian:торго́вий центр m ( torhóvyj centr ) Vietnamese:trung tâm thương mại trung tâm mua sắm thương xá (vi) Welsh:canolfan siopa f Zazaki:mêl (diq)
heavy wooden mallet used in the game of pall mall
old game played with malls or mallets and balls
—see pall mall mall (third-person singular simple present malls present participle malling simple past and past participle malled
tobeat with a mall, ormallet ; to beat with something heavy; tobruise tobuild up with the development ofshopping malls ( informal ) shop at the mallmall m plural malle definite malli definite plural mallet
Alternative form ofmal ( “ mountain ” ) Borrowed fromTurkish mal
mall m plural mallra definite malli definite plural mallrat
goods Synonym: çeshit FromProto-Albanian *melana Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- ( “ black ” ) , comparezi ( “ black, mourning, sadness ” ) andmallëngjej ( “ to touch emotionally, to move ” ) . Alternatively fromProto-Albanian *malwa Sanskrit मल्व ( malvá ,“ foolish, thoughtless, unwise ” ) ,Middle Low German mall ( “ stupid, foolish ” ) ,West Frisian māl ( “ foolish, mad ” ) . Alternatively, fromLatin malum [ 1] [ 2]
mall m plural malle definite malli definite plural mallet
longing ,missing ,nostalgia ^ R. Trofenik, Zeitschrift für Balkanologie, 1980, page 36 ^ Eqrem Çabej, Studime gjuhësore: Hyrje në historinë e gjuhës shqipe. Fonetika historike. Parashtesat, Rilindja, 1976, page 117 mall m
haste Inherited fromLatin malleus
mall m plural malls
hammer Unadapted borrowing fromEnglish mall
mall
mall shopping center ( by extension ) department store FromOld Irish mall
mall (genitive singular masculine mall genitive singular feminine moille plural malla comparative moille
slow Ní fhanann trá le fearmall . ―An ebb does not wait for aslow man. 1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
FromProto-Celtic *malnos ( “ slow, lazy ” ) , of uncertain derivation, but perhaps fromProto-Indo-European *mel- ( “ to be late, hesitate ” ) +*-nós Ancient Greek μέλλω ( méllō ,“ be late ” ) .[ 1]
mall (comparative mailliu superlative maillem
slow c. 700–800 Táin Bó Cúailnge The Táin Bó Cúailnge from the Yellow Book of Lecan, with variant readings from the Lebor na hUidre (1912, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, and Co.), edited by John Strachan and James George O'Keeffe, TBC-I 3537Nirbomailli[u] do·lotar olmbátar in charpait. [The men] who arrived [on foot] were noslower than the men on chariots. tardy ,late c. 800 , Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published inThesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb.5c 5 Dos·n-icfa cobir, cidmall . Bith maith immurgu intain dond·iccfa. Help will come, although it may beslow to do so. [The help] will be good, however, when it does arrive. *modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative
Mutation ofmall radical lenition nasalization mall also mmall after a proclitic mall pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/ unchanged
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
Unadapted borrowing fromEnglish mall
mall n plural malluri
shopping mall ,shopping centre FromOld Irish mall
mall
slow tardy ,late lazy weak calm ,placid feasgarmall 's na h-eòin a' seinn ―acalm evening and the birds warbling dull ,senseless Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
Edward Dwelly (1911 ) “mall”, inFaclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary [2] →ISBN MacLennan, Malcolm (1925 )A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language , Edinburgh: J. Grant,→OCLC Borrowed fromEnglish
mall m plural malls
mall ( shopping centre ) mall c
atemplate Synonym: schablon Unadapted borrowing fromEnglish mall code-switching (Taglish ).
mall (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓᜎ᜔
shopping mall ;shopping center “mall ”, inPambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph , Manila,2018 
