ماله

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Noun

ماله (mâla, mâlə) (definite accusative ماله‌نی or ماله‌نؽ, plural ماله‌لَر or ماله‌لار)

  1. Arabic spelling of mâla, mâlə (ladle, trowel, spatula)

Declension

Ottoman Turkish

ماله

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian ماله (mâle, trowel, harrow).

Proper noun

ماله (mala)

  1. trowel, a plasterer's tool used in spreading and dressing mortar
  2. (in general) any instrument for rubbing down and smoothing

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Turkish: mala
  • Armenian: մալա (mala), մա̈լա̈ (mälä)

Further reading

Persian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Persian *mālag, whence also Arabic مَالَج (mālaj), مَالَق (mālaq, trowel) and مَيْلَق (maylaq, touchstone, whetstone); from the stem of مالیدن (mâlidan, to rub, to smooth, to polish).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? māla
Dari reading? māla
Iranian reading? mâle
Tajik reading? mola

Noun

ماله (mâle)

  1. anything with which ground is smoothed; trowel; harrow

Descendants

References

  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “ماله”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
  • Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “ماله”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum (in Latin), volume II, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 1123