mal
French
noun
Definitions
- (as in the phrase: avoir du mal) trouble, difficulty
- pain
- evil
Etymology
Inherited from Old French mal (bad, evil) inherited from Latin malus (bad, evil, wicked) derived from Proto-Indo-European *mel- (soft, deceive, tender, weak, wrong, bad, strong, limb, dirty, dark, red, cause chaos, big, hesitate, better, be late).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*mel-
Gloss
soft, deceive, tender, weak, wrong, bad, strong, limb, dirty, dark, red, cause chaos, big, hesitate, better, be late
Concept
Semantic Field
Sense perception
Ontological Category
Property
Kanji
暗, 闇, 冥
Emoji
🍦 🔈️
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Malheur County English
- Mallory English
- mal English
- malafide English
- malapropos English
- malus English
- mini-mal English
- mollification English
- mulierose English
- *malifātiu(s), *malifatius Latin
- *malifātius Latin
- augurium Latin
- bonus Latin
- emolliēns Latin
- faciō Latin
- male Latin
- male habitus Latin
- malefacio Latin
- malignus Latin
- malitas Latin
- malitia Latin
- malitās, malitas, malitātem Latin
- malus Latin
- mollis Latin
- molluscus Latin
- muliebris Latin
- mulier Latin
- muliēbris Latin
- pessica Latin
- Malheur German
- Malör German
- malaccio Italian
- malaccolto Italian
- maldicente Italian
- male Italian
- malessere Italian
- malincuore Italian
- malissimo Italian
- malmenare Italian
- malo Italian
- malsecco Italian
- dire French
- dit French
- heur French
- intentionné French
- mal à propos French
- malheur French
- malintentionné French
- malmener French
- malsain French
- malveillamment French
- malveillant French
- malvenu French
- maudire French
- maudit French
- mener French
- sain French
- venu French
- veuillant French
- à propos French
- mal Spanish, Castilian
- malamente Spanish, Castilian
- malazo Spanish, Castilian
- malo Spanish, Castilian
- requetemalo Spanish, Castilian
- βλεννός Ancient Greek
- μάλα Ancient Greek
- μέλος Ancient Greek
- μαλθακός Ancient Greek
- μᾶλλον Ancient Greek
- μῆλον Ancient Greek
- *(h₂)moldus Proto-Indo-European
- *(s)mal- Proto-Indo-European
- *mel- Proto-Indo-European
- *mey- Proto-Indo-European
- malplassert Norwegian Bokmål
- mal Portuguese
- mal-assombrado Portuguese
- malcheiroso Portuguese
- maldade Portuguese
- maldisposto Portuguese
- malograr Portuguese
- *mailą Proto-Germanic
- malplassert Norwegian Nynorsk
- *moľь Proto-Slavic
- malér Czech
- mal Old French
- malgré Old French
- maudire Old French
- mautalant Old French
- mautalent Old French
- mal Catalan, Valencian
- malo Galician
- melc Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- mal Norman
- малус Bulgarian
- mal Middle French
- mal Old Portuguese
- mao Old Portuguese
- *malnos Proto-Celtic
- *meldo Proto-Celtic
- *mello- Proto-Celtic
- малер Macedonian
- *malos Proto-Italic
- aguamala Asturian
- malu Asturian
- melas Lithuanian
- mal Old Occitan
- malvat Old Occitan
- mala Sicilian
- mali Sicilian
- malu Sicilian
- malu Papiamentu
- malfesour xno
- mal Dalmatian
- mul Dalmatian
- mal Kabuverdianu
- malelve Mauritian Creole
- mau Bourguignon
- malu Sardinian
- mölojti̱c Tetelcingo Nahuatl
- mal Interlingua
- malelve Seychellois Creole
- mal Guinea-Bissau Creole
- malo Chavacano
- *mel(n)- bat-pro