mall

Probably a specialised use of maul. Compare pall mall.

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  • (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Rhymes: -æl, (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Rhymes: -ɔːl
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  • (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Rhymes: -ɔːl
  • (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Homophone: maul with -awl pronunciation
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  • (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Homophone: moll
  • (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Rhymes: -ɑːl

mall (plural malls)

1. Place used to play game of pall-mall, and related senses.
   1. (obsolete) The alley where the game of pall mall was played. [17th-19th c.]
   2. 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.

   3. (chiefly Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand) A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct. [from 20th c.]
      • 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.

   4. 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.

2. Hammer used to play game of pall-mall, and related senses.
   1. The heavy wooden mallet 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 […].

   2. (obsolete) The game of polo. [17th c.]
   3. (obsolete) An old game played with malls or mallets and balls; pall mall. [17th-19th c.]

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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.

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From Turkish mal

mall m

1. goods

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“black”), compare zi (“black, mourning, sadness”) and mallëngjej (“to touch emotionally, to move”). Alternatively from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Albanian *malwa, close to Sanskrit मल्व (malvá, “foolish, thoughtless, unwise”), Middle Low German mall (“stupid, foolish”), West Frisian māl (“foolish, mad”).

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

1. longing, missing, nostalgia

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mall m

1. haste

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From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin malleus.

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /maʎ/
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Rhymes: -aʎ

mall m (plural malls)

1. hammer

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

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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.

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• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /mauɫ/

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

• luath no mall

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “mall”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 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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• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˈmal/

mall c

1. a template

• schablon