# malle
## English
### Alternative forms

* maul, mall, mawle

### Noun

malle (plural malles)
* 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.

### Anagrams

* Amell, lamel

## Danish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmalə/, [ˈmælə]

### Noun

malle c (singular definite mallen, plural indefinite maller)
* catfish

#### Inflection
### References

* “malle” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɑ.lə/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: mal‧le
* Rhymes: -ɑlə

### Adjective

malle
* inflection of mal:
** indefinite masculine and feminine singular
** indefinite plural
** definite

### Noun

malle m or f (plural mallen)
* someone who acts silly

## Estonian
### Noun

malle
* illative singular of male

## French
### Etymology

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.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mal/
* Audio:(file)
* Homophones: mal, malles (general), mâle, mâles (one pronunciation)

### Noun

malle f (plural malles)
* 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!

#### Derived terms

* mallette
* se faire la malle

#### Descendants

* → Portuguese: mala

### Further reading

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

## Galician
### Etymology 1

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

#### Alternative forms

* mal, mallo, manle, manlle

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmaʎe̝/

#### Noun

malle m (plural malles)
* flail
* handle of the flail
    Synonyms: mango, mangueira, moca
* hammer

#### References

* 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

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

malle
* inflection of mallar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## German
### Alternative forms

* mall

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmalə/
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

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

#### Declension
## Latin
### Verb

mālle
* present active infinitive of mālō

## Mapudungun
### Noun

malle (Unified spelling)
* uncle

## Middle English
### Noun

malle
* Alternative form of malwe

## Old French
### Etymology

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

### Noun

malle oblique singular, f (oblique plural malles, nominative singular malle, nominative plural malles)
* large chest or trunk

## Spanish
### Verb

malle
* inflection of mallar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative