mal
Portuguese
/maw/, /ˈmaɫ/
adv
Definitions
- badly in a faulty, dysfunctional or incorrect manner
- (preceding verbs) hardly; barely
- wrong incorrect
- unfavourably in an unfavourable manner
- (in compounds) evilly
Etymology
Inherited from Old Portuguese mal inherited from Latin male (badly, wrongly).
Origin
Latin
male
Gloss
badly, wrongly
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- mal English
- male Latin
- maleficus Latin
- malitās, malitas, malitātem Latin
- mal- Italian
- male Italian
- mal French
- mal à propos French
- malheur French
- malintentionné French
- malmener French
- malsain French
- malveillant French
- malvenu French
- malversation French
- maudire French
- maudit French
- mal- Spanish, Castilian
- *mel- Proto-Indo-European
- malplassert Norwegian Bokmål
- assombrado Portuguese
- cheirar Portuguese
- disposto Portuguese
- lograr Portuguese
- mal- Portuguese
- mal-assombrado Portuguese
- malcheiroso Portuguese
- maldade Portuguese
- maldisposto Portuguese
- malograr Portuguese
- malplassert Norwegian Nynorsk
- mal Old French
- mal- Old French
- mal Galician
- mal Old Portuguese
- mâl Friulian
- mal Kabuverdianu
- malelve Mauritian Creole
- mali Sardinian
- malelve Seychellois Creole
- mal Guinea-Bissau Creole