malva

English

Etymology

From the genus name, or in some Spanish or Portuguese contexts, from the Spanish or Portuguese word.

Noun

malva (plural malvas)

1. Any plant of the genus Malva, a mallow.
   • 1989, Country Life, page 235:

     Another malva to note is M. moschata Alba, the white form of our native musk mallow.

   • 2000, Rosalind Creasy, Edible Mexican Garden, Tuttle Publishing, →ISBN, page 59:

     How to prepare: Cook the malvas the same way as amaranth and most other greens in Mexico are prepared[,] that is, briefly cooked with tomatoes or tomatillos and onions ...

   • 2004, Frances Manos, Midwest Cottage Gardening, Big Earth Publishing, →ISBN, page 79:

     If your hollyhocks are attacked by rust, and if hibiscus flowers are too tropical looking and gaudy for your taste, investigate another branch of the mallow family — the malvas. [...] This spring I started seeds of another malva named M. sylvestris 'Mauritiana', and every seed came up.

Related terms

• malva pudding

References

• “malva”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin malva.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)

• Audio (Valencian)

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Noun

malva f (plural malves)

1. mallow
2. mauve

Derived terms

Further reading

• “malva” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “malva”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “malva” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “malva” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Esperanto

Esperanto Wikipedia has an article on:

malva

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -alva
• Hyphenation: mal‧va

Adjective

malva (accusative singular malvan, plural malvaj, accusative plural malvajn)

1. mauve colored
   mauve:  
2. related to a mallow plant

Related terms

• malvo (“mauve”)

Finnish

Etymology

From Latin malva.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑlʋɑ/,
• Rhymes: -ɑlʋɑ
• Syllabification^(key): mal‧va

Noun

malva

1. mallow (flowering plant in the taxonomic family Malvaceae, especially in the genus Malva)

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• “malva”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

Anagrams

• Valma

Galician

Etymology 1

From Latin malva.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

malva f (plural malvas)

1. mallow (any plant of the family Malvaceae)

References

• “malva” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “malva” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “malva” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Etymology 2

Verb

malva

1. inflection of malvar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Italian

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

Malva (botanica)

Wikipedia ^it

Etymology

From Latin malva, of Semitic origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmal.va/
• Rhymes: -alva
• Hyphenation: màl‧va

Noun

malva f (plural malve)

1. mallow (plant)

Noun

malva m (invariable)

1. mauve

Adjective

malva (invariable)

1. mauve

Related terms

• malvone / malvarosa

Latin

Etymology

Unknown, but likely a substrate word related to Ancient Greek μαλάχη (malákhē). Compare also Middle Armenian բաղբակ (baġbak) and Georgian ბალბა (balba, “mallow”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmal.u̯a/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmal.va/,

Noun

malva f (genitive malvae); first declension

1. mallow

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• malvāceus

Descendants

References

• “malva”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “malva”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• malva in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “malva”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin malva.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Languedocien)

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Noun

malva f (plural malvas)

1. mallow

Dialectal variants

• mauva (“Gascon, Provençal, vivaro-alpine, Limousin”)

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin malva, of Semitic origin.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -alvɐ, -awvɐ
• Hyphenation: mal‧va

Noun

malva f (plural malvas)

1. mallow (any plant of the family Malvaceae)

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin malva, of Semitic origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmalba/
• Rhymes: -alba
• Syllabification: mal‧va

Noun

malva f (plural malvas)

1. mallow
2. mauve (color)

Derived terms

Adjective

malva m or f (masculine and feminine plural malvas)

1. mauve (color)

Further reading

• “malva”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swedish

Noun

malva c

1. mallow

Derived terms

• läkemalva
• praktmalva
• malvaväxter