маль

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mal"

Bulgarian
чукало маль

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin malleus (“mallet”), whence also Romanian mai, Albanian maj, Serbo-Croatian ма̑љ.

Noun

маль • (malʹ) m (dialectal)

  1. maul, mallet
    Synonyms: кия́к (kiják), (Turkish borrowing) токма́к (tokmák)

Declension
Declension of мал
singular plural
indefinite мал
mal		 ма́льове
máljove
definite
(subject form)		 ма́лят
máljat		 ма́льовете
máljovete
definite
(object form)		 ма́ля
málja
count form — ма́ля
málja

Alternative forms
  • мал (mal) — standardized spelling

Derived terms
  • мали́ца (malíca, “maul”) (dialectal)
  • малю́га (maljúga, “hammer's head”) (dialectal)
  • млат (mlat, “thresher, mallet”) (native cognate)

References
  • “мал² (същ.)”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
  • Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1986), “маль”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 3 (крес¹ – мѝнго¹), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 631
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