malle

• maul, mall, mawle

malle (plural malles)

1. A heavy hammer or beetle, often made of wood or lead.
   • 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 52:

     There is also an entry of two hundred Malles in a store house at Berwick.

• Amell, lamel

From Low German malle, presumably corrupted from Middle Low German walre, itself related to hval.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmalə/, [ˈmælə]

malle c (singular definite mallen, plural indefinite maller)

1. catfish

• “malle” in Den Danske Ordbog

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑ.lə/

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• Hyphenation: mal‧le
• Rhymes: -ɑlə

malle

1. inflection of mal:
   1. indefinite masculine and feminine singular
   2. indefinite plural
   3. definite

malle m or f (plural mallen, no diminutive)

1. someone who acts silly

malle

1. illative singular of male

Inherited from Middle French malle, from Old French male (“leather bag, leather or wooden travel-case”), from Frankish *malha (“leather bag”), from Proto-Germanic *malhō (“leather bag”), from Proto-Indo-European *molko- (“leather bag”). Cognate with Old High German malha, malaha (“leather bag”), Middle Dutch male (“trunk, travel bag”). More at mail.

• IPA^(key): /mal/

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• Homophones: mal, malles (general), mâle, mâles (one pronunciation)

malle f (plural malles)

1. large suitcase; trunk

   Sors tes habits de la malle et range-les dans l'armoire !

   Take your clothes out of the suitcase and put them away in the cupboard!

• mallette
• se faire la malle

• → Portuguese: mala

• “malle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Latin manualis (“manual”); cognate with Portuguese mangual.

• mal, mallo, manle, manlle

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaʎe̝/

malle m (plural malles)

1. flail
2. handle of the flail

   Synonyms: mango, mangueira, moca

3. hammer

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “malle”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “malle”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “mallo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

malle

1. inflection of mallar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• mall

From Low German mall, from Middle Low German mal, of uncertain origin. Cognate with Dutch mal.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmalə/

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malle (strong nominative masculine singular maller, comparative maller, superlative am mallsten)

1. (colloquial, chiefly predicative) mad, crazy, not quite right, whimsical

   Synonyms: verrückt, irre, bekloppt, bescheuert, durchgeknallt, plemplem

   Die Idee ist doch komplett malle. ― That idea is completely mad!

   Ich werd hier noch malle! ― I’m about to go crazy in here!

mālle

1. present active infinitive of mālō

malle (Unified spelling)

1. uncle

malle

1. alternative form of malwe

Of Germanic origin, probably from Frankish *malhu (“leather bag”).

malle oblique singular, f (oblique plural malles, nominative singular malle, nominative plural malles)

1. large chest or trunk

malle

1. inflection of mallar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative