# malen
## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmaː.lə(n)/
* Hyphenation: ma‧len
* Rhymes: -aːlən
* Homophone: Malen

### Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch mālen, from Old Dutch *malan, from Proto-West Germanic *malan, from Proto-Germanic *malaną.

#### Verb

malen
* to grind

##### Derived terms

* bemalen
* gemaal
* maalsteen

##### Descendants

* Afrikaans: maal
* Berbice Creole Dutch: mali
* Negerhollands: maal

### Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch mâlen, from Old Dutch *mālon, denominative of *māl (“spot, stain”), from Proto-West Germanic *māl (modern maal).

#### Verb

malen
* (obsolete) to paint

##### Related terms

* maal

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

malen
* plural of maal
* plural of male

## German
### Etymology

From Middle High German mālen, from Old High German mālōn, mālēn, denominative of māl (“spot, stain”), from Proto-West Germanic *mālijan, from Proto-Germanic *mēlijaną (compare Dutch maal), from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“dark color”) (compare Lithuanian mė́las (“black”), Ancient Greek μέλας (mélas, “dark-colored, black”)).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmaːlən/
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* Rhymes: -aːlən
* Homophone: mahlen

### Verb

malen (weak, third-person singular present malt, past tense malte, past participle gemalt, auxiliary haben)
* (intransitive) to paint (do paintwork)
* (transitive or intransitive) to paint (create a painting)
* (loosely) to draw, depict (with a pencil, computer program, etc.)
    Synonym: (more strictly correct) zeichnen

#### Conjugation

$^1$Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.

#### Derived terms

* anmalen
* bemalen

#### Related terms

* Bild
* Gemälde
* Maler
* Malerei

#### Descendants

* → Polish: malować
* → Romanian: molări
* → Russian: малевать (malevatʹ)
* → Ukrainian: малювати (maljuvaty)

### Further reading

* “malen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
* “malen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
* “malen” in Duden online
* “malen” in OpenThesaurus.de
* malen on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{de}$

## Middle Dutch
### Etymology 1

From Old Dutch *malan, from Proto-West Germanic *malan, from Proto-Germanic *malaną.

#### Verb

mālen
* to grind
* to mill

##### Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

##### Descendants

* Dutch: malen
** Afrikaans: maal
** Berbice Creole Dutch: mali
** Negerhollands: maal
* Limburgish: male

### Etymology 2

From Old Dutch *mālon, denominative of *māl (“spot, stain”), from Proto-West Germanic *māl (modern maal).

#### Verb

mâlen
* to paint
* to sculpt

##### Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

##### Descendants

* Dutch: malen
* Limburgish: maole

### Further reading

* “malen (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
* “malen (III)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
* Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “malen (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
* Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “malen (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page II

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Noun

malen m sg
* definite singular of mal

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

malen m sg
* definite singular of mal

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Variant of mal, from mal +‎ -en.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mǎlen/
* Hyphenation: mal‧en

### Adjective

màlen (Cyrillic spelling ма̀лен, definite màlenī, comparative mȁnjī)
* small
    Antonym: velik

#### Related terms

* mȃl
* manjina

### Further reading

* “malen”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

## Swedish
### Pronunciation

* (verb form) IPA: [ˈmɑːlˌɛn]
* (noun form) IPA: [ˈmɑːl.ən]

### Participle

malen
* past participle of mala

### Noun

malen
* definite singular of mal

### Anagrams

* almen, lemna