# hall
## English
### Etymology

Inherited from Middle English halle, from Old English heall (“hall, dwelling, house; palace, temple; law-court”), from Proto-West Germanic *hallu, from Proto-Germanic *hallō (“hall”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to hide, conceal”).
Cognate with Scots hall, haw (“hall”), Dutch hal (“hall”), German Halle (“hall”), Norwegian hall (“hall”), Swedish hall (“hall”), Icelandic höll (“palace”), Latin cella (“room, cell”), Sanskrit शाला (śā́lā, “house, mansion, hall”). Doublet of cell and cella.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /hɔːl/
* (US) IPA: /hɔl/
* (cot–caught merger) IPA: /hɑl/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔːl
* Homophone: haul

### Noun

hall (plural halls)
* A corridor; a hallway.
    The drinking fountain was out in the hall.
** 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter XIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time.
* A large meeting room.
    The hotel had three halls for conferences, and two were in use by the convention.
* A manor house (originally because a magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion).
    The duke lived in a great hall overlooking the sea.
** c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:But Kate, the prettiest Kate in Christendome, Kate of Kate-hall.
* A building providing student accommodation at a university.
    The student government hosted several social events so that students from different halls would intermingle.
* The principal room of a secular medieval building.
* (obsolete) Cleared passageway through a crowd, as for dancing.
** 1633 (first performance), Ben Jonson, “A Tale of a Tub. A Comedy […]”, in The Works of Beniamin Jonson, […] (Third Folio), London: […] Thomas Hodgkin, for H[enry] Herringman, E. Brewster, T. Bassett, R[ichard] Chiswell, M. Wotton, G. Conyers, published 1692, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):Then cry, a hall, a hall! Come, father Rosin, with your fiddle now.
* A place for special professional education, or for conferring professional degrees or licences.
    a Divinity Hall; Apothecaries' Hall
* (India) A living room.
* (Oxbridge) A college's canteen, which is often but not always coterminous with a traditional hall.
* (Oxbridge slang) A meal served and eaten at a college's hall.

#### Derived terms

* ancestral hall
* audience hall
* bachelor's hall
* beer hall
* BHK
* booking hall
* chow hall
* cinema hall
* city hall
* cloth hall
* concert hall
* dance-hall
* dance hall
* dining hall
* dining-hall
* drill hall
* exhibition hall
* fire hall
* food hall
* Forest Hall
* formal hall
* great hall
* guild-hall
* hall church
* Hall Green
* hall house
* Hall i' th' Wood
* hall-mark
* hall monitor
* hall of fame
* hall-of-famer
* hall of mirrors
* hall of residence
* hall of shame
* hall pass
* hall porter
* hall test
* hall tree
* hallway
* Hams Hall
* hiring hall
* juvenile hall
* Lea Hall
* lecture hall
* linen hall
* Lostock Hall
* mead hall
* Meadowhall
* mess hall
* Midge Hall
* moot hall
* moot-hall
* music hall
* Newton Hall
* Northop Hall
* ordination hall
* Park Hall
* permanent private hall
* pool hall
* rec hall
* recreation hall
* residence hall
* riding hall
* Scale Hall
* sports hall
* stair hall
* study hall
* ticket hall
* town hall
* village hall
* Whitehall
* White Hall

#### Descendants

* → Greek: χολ (chol), χωλ (chol), χωλλ (choll)
* → Japanese: ホール (hōru)
* → Korean: 홀 (hol)
* → Russian: холл (xoll)

#### Translations

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## Albanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈhaɫ/
* Rhymes: -aɫ

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish حال (hal, “situation; grief”).

#### Noun

hall m (plural halle)
* difficult situation, difficulty, trouble, misery, plight
    Synonyms: ngushticë, mundim, nevojë
* concern, vexing issue
    Synonym: shqetësim

##### Derived terms

* hallemadh
* halleshumë
* hallexhi
* hallezi
* hallkeq

#### Adverb

hall
* badly, wrongly
    Synonym: keq
    hall kështu, hall ashtu. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

#### References

* FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎, 1980, page 643ab
* Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “hall$^1$”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 184f.
* Mann, S. E. (1948) “hall”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 153a
* Meyer, G. (1891) “hał”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 145

#### Further reading

* Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “hall”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 141f.

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish حل (hal, “solution”).

#### Noun

hall m (plural halle) (colloquial)
* solution, way out
    Synonyms: zgjidhje, rrugëdalje

#### References

* FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎, 1980, page 643ab
* Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “hall$^2$”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 185

## Chinese
### Etymology

Borrowed from English hall.

### Pronunciation

* Cantonese (Jyutping): ho$^1$
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: ho$^1$
*** Yale: hō
*** Cantonese Pinyin: ho$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: ho$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /hɔː⁵⁵/

### Noun

hall
* (Hong Kong Cantonese) assembly hall; auditorium
* (Hong Kong Cantonese) residence hall; dormitory

## Danish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English hall. Doublet of hal.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [hɒːl]

### Noun

hall c (singular definite hallen, plural indefinite haller)
* hall (a corridor or a hallway)

#### Inflection
## East Central German
### Etymology

Compare German hell.

### Adjective

hall
* (Erzgebirgisch) clear, bright, light
    an hallrlichtrn Toochin broad daylight (lit. at bright-light day)

### References

* 2004 Karl Heinz Schmidt, Ich putz mein Christbaam aa, P. 14

### Further reading

* 2020 June 11, Hendrik Heidler, Hendrik Heidler's 400 Seiten: Echtes Erzgebirgisch: Wuu de Hasen Hoosn haaßn un de Hosen Huusn do sei mir drhamm: Das Original Wörterbuch: Ratgeber und Fundgrube der erzgebirgischen Mund- und Lebensart: Erzgebirgisch – Deutsch / Deutsch – Erzgebirgisch‎, 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 57:

## Estonian
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Finnic *halla.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈhɑlː/, [ˈ(h)ɑlː]

#### Noun

hall (genitive halla, partitive halla)
* frost

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Finnic *halli (compare Finnish halli), from Balto-Slavic. Compare Latvian salnis, Lithuanian šalnis (“off-white, roan”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈhɑlʲː/, [ˈ(h)ɑlʲː]

#### Adjective

hall (genitive halli, partitive halli, comparative hallim, superlative kõige hallim)
* grey (color)

##### Derived terms

* hallitama

#### See also

Colors in Estonian · värvid (layout · text) :
| valge | hall | must |
| punane; karmiinpunane | oranž; pruun | kollane; kreem |
| laimiroheline, kollakasroheline | roheline | mündiroheline; tumeroheline |
| tsüaansinine, rohekassinine; sinakasroheline, siniroheline | taevasinine, taevassinine | sinine |
| lilla, violetne; potisinine, indigosinine | fuksia, magentapunane; lilla, purpurne, purpurpunane | roosa |

### Etymology 3

German Halle.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈhɑlʲː/, [ˈ(h)ɑlʲː]

#### Noun

hall (genitive halli, partitive halli)
* hall (a large room or building)

##### Declension
### Further reading

* hall in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from English hall.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ol/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

hall m (plural halls)
* hall
** 2018 July 6, “Bonaparte”, in Elh Kmer (lyrics), Antidote:Les keufs barodent Parce qu’ils barodent, j’suis caché dans l’hallThe pigs walk around And because they walk around I am hidden in the hall
* lobby

### Further reading

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

## German
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hal/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -al

### Verb

hall
* singular imperative of hallen
* (colloquial) first-person singular present of hallen

## Hungarian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈhɒlː]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɒlː

### Etymology 1

From the conflation of Proto-Uralic *kontale- (compare Old Hungarian hadl (“hear”), Northern Mansi хӯнтлуӈкве (hūntluňkve), Finnish kuunnella) and Proto-Uralic *kule- (compare Northern Mansi хӯлуӈкве (hūluňkve) and Finnish kuulla).

#### Verb

hall
* (intransitive) to hear (to perceive sounds through the ear)
* (transitive) to hear (to perceive with the ear)
    Hallottam egy hangot a szobából. ― I heard a sound from the room.

##### Usage notes

This verb is a member of one of those (few) quasi-homonymous verb pairs that exist both with and without an -ik ending. All (intransitive) suffixed forms of these pairs are identical (sometimes they can even have derived forms that coincide), with the exception of their dictionary form (the third-person singular indicative present, with or without -ik). However, the meaning of these pairs is usually distinct, sometimes unrelated. Examples include (fel)áldoz–(le)áldozik, bán–bánik, (meg)bíz–(meg)bízik, (meg)ér–(meg)érik, esz (rare)–eszik, hajol–hajlik, hasonul–(meg)hasonlik, (felül)múl–(el)múlik, (hozzá)nyúl–nyúlik, (el)vesz–(el)veszik~(el)vész, and tör–törik (along with their verbal prefixes), hall–hallik (archaic), érez–érzik (archaic), sometimes with some difference: (el)hibáz–hibádzik, (le)torkol–torkollik. Therefore one may well need to check the context and the arguments to ascertain which member of the verb pair is relevant.

##### Derived terms

* hallatszik
* hallgat
* hallható
* hallomás
(With verbal prefixes):
* áthall
* belehall
* keresztülhall
* kihall
* meghall
* viszonthall
* se lát, se hall

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from German Halle.

#### Noun

hall (plural hallok)
* middle-sized, windowless room, entryway, hallway (in a private flat/apartment, with a size not smaller than 8 m² [86 sq ft], with space for people, but without affording them privacy due to its being an entry to other rooms)
    Synonym: előtér
    Coordinate terms: szoba, helyiség, félszoba, alkóv, gardrób, előszoba, hálószoba, nappali
* lobby, foyer, lounge (e.g. in a hotel or an opera house)
    Synonyms: társalgó, előcsarnok

##### Derived terms

* egyszoba-hallos
* hallos
* háromszoba-hallos
* kétszoba-hallos

### Further reading

* (to hear): hall in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
* (entryway): hall in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

## Ludian
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Finnic *halla, borrowed from Baltic. Cognates include Finnish halla.

### Noun

hall
* frost

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

Derived from Old Norse hǫll.

### Noun

hall m (definite singular hallen, indefinite plural haller, definite plural hallene)
* hall (a building or very large room)

#### Derived terms

* idrettshall
* ishall
* svømmehall

### References

* “hall” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hɑlː/

### Etymology 1

Derived from Old Norse hǫll. Akin to English hall.

#### Noun

hall m (definite singular hallen, indefinite plural hallar, definite plural hallane) hall f (definite singular halla, indefinite plural haller, definite plural hallene)
* hall (a building or very large room)

##### Derived terms

* idrettshall
* ishall
* svømmehall
* symjehall

### Etymology 2

Derived from Old Norse hallr.

#### Noun

hall n (definite singular hallet, indefinite plural hall, definite plural halla)
* slope, sloping terrain

##### Derived terms

* bakhall
* grashall

### References

* “hall” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English hall.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈʁɔw/ [ˈhɔʊ̯]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈʁɔw/ [ˈhɔʊ̯]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈʁɔw/ [ˈχɔʊ̯]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈɔ.lɨ/

### Noun

hall m (plural halls)
* (architecture) lobby; entrance hall (a room in a building used for entry from the outside)
    Synonyms: átrio, entrada

#### Derived terms

* hall da fama

## Romanian
### Noun

hall n (plural halluri)
* Obsolete form of hol.

#### Declension
### References

* hall in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

## Spanish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English hall.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈxol/ [ˈxol]
* Rhymes: -ol

### Noun

hall m (plural halls)
* hall, lobby, lounge

#### Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

### Further reading

* “hall”, 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

Inherited from Old Norse hǫll, from Proto-Germanic *hallō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel-. Compare English hall. Related to Latin cella and English cellar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hal/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

hall c
* hallway
* lounge
* corridor
* entryway
* short for any of the words:
** simhall
** ishall
** sporthall
** verkstadshall
** mässhall

#### Usage notes

Most commonly refers to a small room just inside the front door of a residential building, where shoes and outerwear are taken off or put on.

#### Declension
### References

* ↑ hall in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)