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)

Related terms

• 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), volume 3 (крес¹ – мѝнго¹), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 631