مل

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Arabic

Etymology 1

Root
م ل ل (m-l-l)

Verb

مَلَّ (malla) I, non-past يَمَلُّ‎ (yamallu)

  1. to sew with large stitches
  2. to give to the fire; to throw into the ashes
  3. to be tedious for somebody, to appear as a source of vexation to, to tire, to weary
Conjugation

Verb

مَلَّ (malla) I, non-past يَمَلُّ‎ (yamallu)

  1. (transitive) to be bored by
  2. (obsolete) to be affected by heat, to be feverish
Conjugation

Noun

مَلّ (mallm

  1. 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 (mulm

  1. (nautical) coastline
    Coordinate terms: بَحْر (baḥr), بَرّ (barr)
Declension
Alternative forms
  • مُول (mūl)later, more dialectal
Derived terms

Further reading

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

مِلْ (mil) (form I)

  1. second-person masculine singular active 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 Cie, 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)

  1. neck

Persian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Sogdian (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

Readings
Classical reading? mul
Dari reading? mul
Iranian reading? mol
Tajik reading? mul

Noun

مل (mol)

  1. (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 (mərəzu, neck, vertebra). Central Kurdish مل (mil, neck) is loaned from Persian.

Pronunciation

Noun

مل (mol)

  1. (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

Noun

مُلّ (mullm (Gurmukhi spelling ਮੁੱਲ)

  1. price; worth
    Synonym: قِیمَت (qīmat)

Declension

Declension of مل
dir. sg. مُلّ (mull)
dir. pl. مُلّ (mull)
singular plural
direct مُلّ (mull) مُلّ (mull)
oblique مُلّ (mull) مُلّاں (mullāṉ)
vocative مُلّا (mullā) مُلّو (mullo)
ablative مُلّوں (mulloṉ)
locative مُلّے (mulle) مُلِّیں (mulliīṉ)
instrumental مُلّے (mulle) مُلِّیں (mulliīṉ)

References

  • مل”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2024
  • 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(key): /mall/,
  • (file)

Verb

ملّ (mall) I (present بملّ (bimill))

  1. to get bored, to get tired of
  2. to become fed up with, to become sick of

Conjugation

    Conjugation of ملّ (mall)
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
past m ملّيت (mallēt) ملّيت (mallēt) ملّ (mall) ملّينا (mallēna) ملّيتو (mallētu) ملّو (mallu)
f ملّيتي (mallēti) ملّت (mallat)
present m بملّ (bamill) بتملّ (bitmill) بملّ (bimill) منملّ (minmill) بتملّو (bitmillu) بملّو (bimillu)
f بتملّي (bitmilli) بتملّ (bitmill)
subjunctive m املّ (amill) تملّ (tmill) يملّ (ymill) نملّ (nmill) تملّو (tmillu) يملّو (ymillu)
f تملّي (tmilli) تملّ (tmill)
imperative m ملّ (mill) ملّو (millu)
f ملّي (milli)

See also

Southwestern Fars

Noun

مل (mol)

  1. (Anatomy, Masarm, Deh Sarv, Kuzarg) neck

Torwali

Etymology

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

Noun

مَل (mal)

  1. dirt

Derived terms