# malva
## English
### Etymology

From the genus name, or in some Spanish or Portuguese contexts, from the Spanish or Portuguese word.

### Noun

malva (plural malvas)
* Any plant of the genus Malva, a mallow.
** 1989, Country Life, page 235:Another malva to note is M. moschata Alba, the white form of our native musk mallow.
** 2000, Rosalind Creasy, Edible Mexican Garden, Tuttle Publishing, →ISBN, page 59:How to prepare: Cook the malvas the same way as amaranth and most other greens in Mexico are prepared[,] that is, briefly cooked with tomatoes or tomatillos and onions ...
** 2004, Frances Manos, Midwest Cottage Gardening, Big Earth Publishing, →ISBN, page 79:If your hollyhocks are attacked by rust, and if hibiscus flowers are too tropical looking and gaudy for your taste, investigate another branch of the mallow family — the malvas. [...] This spring I started seeds of another malva named M. sylvestris 'Mauritiana', and every seed came up.

#### Related terms

* malva pudding

### References

* “malva”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

## Catalan
### Etymology

From Latin malva.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈmal.βə]
* IPA: (Balearic) [ˈmal.və]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈmal.va]
* Audio (Valencia):(file)

### Noun

malva f (plural malves)
* mallow
* mauve

#### Derived terms

* malva blanca
* malva de fulla rodona
* malva doble
* malva gran
* malva major
* malva reial
* malvapeix
* malvapoma
* malvera
* malví

### Further reading

* “malva” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “malva”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “malva” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “malva” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Esperanto
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmalva]
* Rhymes: -alva
* Hyphenation: mal‧va

### Adjective

malva (accusative singular malvan, plural malvaj, accusative plural malvajn)
* mauve colored mauve:
* related to a mallow plant

#### Related terms

* malvo (“mauve”)

## Finnish
### Etymology

From Latin malva.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɑlʋɑ/, [ˈmɑ̝lʋɑ̝]
* Rhymes: -ɑlʋɑ
* Hyphenation: mal‧va

### Noun

malva
* mallow (flowering plant in the taxonomic family Malvaceae, especially in the genus Malva)

#### Declension

Possessive forms of malva (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) :
first-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
malvani
malvani
accusative
nom.
malvani
malvani
gen.
malvani
genitive
malvani
malvojeni malvaini $^{rare}$
partitive
malvaani
malvojani
inessive
malvassani
malvoissani
elative
malvastani
malvoistani
illative
malvaani
malvoihini
adessive
malvallani
malvoillani
ablative
malvaltani
malvoiltani
allative
malvalleni
malvoilleni
essive
malvanani
malvoinani
translative
malvakseni
malvoikseni
abessive
malvattani
malvoittani
instructive
comitative
—malvoineni
second-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
malvasi
malvasi
accusative
nom.
malvasi
malvasi
gen.
malvasi
genitive
malvasi
malvojesi malvaisi $^{rare}$
partitive
malvaasi
malvojasi
inessive
malvassasi
malvoissasi
elative
malvastasi
malvoistasi
illative
malvaasi
malvoihisi
adessive
malvallasi
malvoillasi
ablative
malvaltasi
malvoiltasi
allative
malvallesi
malvoillesi
essive
malvanasi
malvoinasi
translative
malvaksesi
malvoiksesi
abessive
malvattasi
malvoittasi
instructive
comitative
—malvoinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
malvamme
malvamme
accusative
nom.
malvamme
malvamme
gen.
malvamme
genitive
malvamme
malvojemme malvaimme $^{rare}$
partitive
malvaamme
malvojamme
inessive
malvassamme
malvoissamme
elative
malvastamme
malvoistamme
illative
malvaamme
malvoihimme
adessive
malvallamme
malvoillamme
ablative
malvaltamme
malvoiltamme
allative
malvallemme
malvoillemme
essive
malvanamme
malvoinamme
translative
malvaksemme
malvoiksemme
abessive
malvattamme
malvoittamme
instructive
comitative
—malvoinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
malvanne
malvanne
accusative
nom.
malvanne
malvanne
gen.
malvanne
genitive
malvanne
malvojenne malvainne $^{rare}$
partitive
malvaanne
malvojanne
inessive
malvassanne
malvoissanne
elative
malvastanne
malvoistanne
illative
malvaanne
malvoihinne
adessive
malvallanne
malvoillanne
ablative
malvaltanne
malvoiltanne
allative
malvallenne
malvoillenne
essive
malvananne
malvoinanne
translative
malvaksenne
malvoiksenne
abessive
malvattanne
malvoittanne
instructive
comitative
—malvoinenne
third-person possessor
singular
plural
nominative
malvansa
malvansa
accusative
nom.
malvansa
malvansa
gen.
malvansa
genitive
malvansa
malvojensa malvainsa $^{rare}$
partitive
malvaansa
malvojaan malvojansa
inessive
malvassaan malvassansa
malvoissaan malvoissansa
elative
malvastaan malvastansa
malvoistaan malvoistansa
illative
malvaansa
malvoihinsa
adessive
malvallaan malvallansa
malvoillaan malvoillansa
ablative
malvaltaan malvaltansa
malvoiltaan malvoiltansa
allative
malvalleen malvallensa
malvoilleen malvoillensa
essive
malvanaan malvanansa
malvoinaan malvoinansa
translative
malvakseen malvaksensa
malvoikseen malvoiksensa
abessive
malvattaan malvattansa
malvoittaan malvoittansa
instructive
comitative
—malvoineen malvoinensa :

#### Derived terms

* malvikki
* malvio
* kiiltomalva
* malvakasvi
* malvaseitikki
* maurinmalva

### Further reading

* “malva”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

### Anagrams

* Valma

## Galician
### Etymology 1

From Latin malva.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmalβɐ]

#### Noun

malva f (plural malvas)
* mallow (any plant of the family Malvaceae)

#### References

* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “malva”, 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), “malva”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “malva”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

malva
* inflection of malvar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin malva, of Semitic origin.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmal.va/
* Rhymes: -alva
* Hyphenation: màl‧va

### Noun

malva f (plural malve)
* mallow (plant)

### Noun

malva m (invariable)
* mauve

### Adjective

malva (invariable)
* mauve

#### Related terms

* malvone / malvarosa

## Latin
### Etymology

Unknown, but likely a substrate word related to Hebrew מַלּוּחַ (mallū́aḥ, “saltbush”) and Ancient Greek μαλάχη (malákhē, “mallow”). Compare also Middle Armenian բաղբակ (baġbak) and Georgian ბალბა (balba, “mallow”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈmal.u̯a/, [ˈmäɫ̪u̯ä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈmal.va/, [ˈmälvä]

### Noun

malva f (genitive malvae); first declension
* mallow

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* malvāceus

#### Descendants

* Aromanian: nalbã
* Catalan: malva
* Friulian: malve
* Galician: malva
* Italian: malva
* Occitan: malva
* Old French: mauve
** French: mauve
*** → Dutch: mauve
*** → English: mauve
*** → Greek: μοβ (mov)
*** → Romanian: mov
** Norman: mauve
* Polish: malwa
* Portuguese: malva
* Romanian: nalbă
* Sardinian: narba, mafra, marma
* Sicilian: marva, màliva
* Spanish: malva
* Translingual: Malva
* Venetan: nalba
* → Proto-West Germanic: *malwā (see there for further descendants)
* → Russian: мальва (malʹva)

### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “malva”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 361

### Further reading

* “malva”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “malva”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* malva in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* “malva”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

## Occitan
### Etymology

From Latin malva.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Languedoc):(file)

### Noun

malva f (plural malvas)
* mallow

#### Dialectal variants

* mauva (“Gascon, Provençal, vivaro-alpine, Limousin”)

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From Latin malva, of Semitic origin.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈmaw.vɐ/ [ˈmaʊ̯.vɐ]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈmaw.vɐ/ [ˈmaʊ̯.vɐ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈmaw.va/ [ˈmaʊ̯.va]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈmal.vɐ/ [ˈmaɫ.vɐ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈmal.vɐ/ [ˈmaɫ.vɐ]
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /ˈmal.bɐ/ [ˈmaɫ.βɐ]
* Rhymes: -alvɐ, -awvɐ
* Hyphenation: mal‧va

### Noun

malva f (plural malvas)
* mallow (any plant of the family Malvaceae)

## Spanish
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin malva, of Semitic origin.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmalba/ [ˈmal.β̞a]
* Rhymes: -alba
* Syllabification: mal‧va

### Noun

malva f (plural malvas)
* mallow
* mauve (color)

#### Derived terms

* chinche de la malva arbórea
* criar malvas
* malva loca
* malva moscada
* malva prieta

### Adjective

malva m or f (masculine and feminine plural malvas)
* mauve (color)

### Further reading

* “malva”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Swedish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin malva.

### Noun

malva c
* mallow

#### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | malva | malvas |
| singular | definite | malvan | malvans |
| plural | indefinite | malvor | malvors |
| plural | definite | malvorna | malvornas |

#### Derived terms

* gråmalva
* läkemalva
* malvablad
* malvafärgad
* malvaväxter
* praktmalva

### Further reading

* malva in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
* malva in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)