# مل
## Arabic
### Etymology 1

* Root
* م ل ل (m l l)
* 6 terms

#### Verb

مَلَّ • (malla) I (first-person singular past مَلِلْتُ (maliltu), non-past يَمَلُّ (yamallu), verbal noun مَلّ (mall))
* to sew with large stitches
* to give to the fire; to throw into the ashes
* to be tedious for somebody, to appear as a source of vexation to, to tire, to weary

##### Conjugation
#### Verb

مَلَّ • (malla) I (first-person singular past مَلِلْتُ (maliltu), non-past يَمَلُّ (yamallu), verbal noun مَلَل (malal) or مَلَال (malāl) or مَلَالَة (malāla))
* (transitive) to be bored by
* (obsolete) to be affected by heat, to be feverish

##### Conjugation
#### Noun

مَلّ • (mall) m
* verbal noun of مَلَّ (malla) (form I)

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

From Tamil மூலை (mūlai, “corner, angle; point of compass”) or from Malayalam മൂല (mūla, “corner, angle; point of compass”).

#### Noun

مُل • (mul) m
* (nautical) coastline
    Coordinate terms: بَحْر (baḥr), بَرّ (barr)

##### Alternative forms

* مُول (mūl) — later, more dialectal

##### Derived terms

* مُلِيّ (muliyy, relational adjective)

#### Further reading

* Ferrand, Gabriel (1924) “L’élément persan dans les textes nautiques arabes des XV$^o$ et XVI$^o$ siècles”, in Journal asiatique‎ (in French), volume 204, pages 222–230

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

مِلْ • (mil) (form I) /mil/
* second-person masculine singular imperative of مَالَ (māla)

### References

* “مل” in Almaany
* Freytag, Georg (1837) “مل”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 202
* Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “مل”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎ (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C$^{ie}$, pages 1140–1141
* Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “مل”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen, page 1050
* Wahrmund, Adolf (1887) “مل”, in Handwörterbuch der neu-arabischen und deutschen Sprache‎ (in German), volume 2, Gießen: J. Ricker’sche Buchhandlung, page 890
* Wehr, Hans (1979) “مل”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 1077
* Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “مل”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1217

## Laki
### Noun

مل (mil)
* neck

## Pashto
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mal/

### Noun

مل • (mal) m (plural مله (mlë))
* companion
* comrade
* friend

## Persian
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Sogdian [script needed] (mwδ /⁠muδ⁠/) or less likely from Bactrian μολο (molo, “wine”), both from Proto-Iranian *mádu, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *mádʰu, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰu. Doublet of می (mey).

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [mul]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [mʊl]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [mʊl]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [mʊl]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [mul̥]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [mol̥]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [mul]

#### Noun

مل • (mol)
* (literary, archaic) wine
    Synonyms: شراب (šarâb), (literary) می (mey)

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Iranian *mr̥ju-. Cognate with Talysh مل (məl), مله (məlla, “neck”), Avestan 𐬨𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬰𐬎 (mər$^ə$zu, “neck, vertebra”). Central Kurdish مل (mil, “neck”) is loaned from Persian.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mol/

#### Noun

مل • (mol)
* (dialectal, Yazd, Kazerun) neck
    Synonym: گردن (gardan)

## Punjabi
### Etymology

Inherited from Paisaci Prakrit 𑀫𑀼𑀮𑁆𑀮 (mulla) (compare Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀫𑀼𑀮𑁆𑀮 (mulla)), from Sanskrit मूल्य (mūlya). Cognate with Urdu مول (mol), Nepali मुल्य (mulya), Konkani मोल (mōl), Assamese মূল্য (muillo), Bengali মূল্য (mullo) and Sinhalese මිල (mila).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Punjabi) IPA: /mʊlːə̆/

### Noun

مُلّ • (mull) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਮੁੱਲ)
* price; worth
    Synonym: قِیمَت (qīmat)

#### Declension
### References

* “مل”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2025
* Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “مُل”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz

## South Levantine Arabic

* Root
* م ل ل
* 2 terms

### Etymology

From Arabic مَلَّ (malla).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mall/, [mal]
* Audio (al-Lidd):(file)

### Verb

ملّ • (mall) I (present بملّ (bimill))
* to get bored, to get tired of
* to become fed up with, to become sick of

#### See also

* مملّ (mumill, “boring”)

## Southwestern Fars
### Noun

مل (mol)
* (Anatomy, Masarm, Deh Sarv, Kuzarg) neck

## Torwali
### Etymology

From Sanskrit मल (mala), from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂-.

### Noun

مَل (mal)
* dirt

#### Derived terms

* مَلگَن (malgan, “dirty”)