mahal

From Hindi महल (mahal), from Arabic مَحَلّ‎ (maḥall, “place”).

• IPA^(key): /məˈhɑːl/
• Rhymes: -ɑːl

mahal (plural mahals)

1. (India) A summer house.
2. (India) Private lodgings.
3. (India, historical) A territorial division of pre-independence India.
4. (India) A division of a farm.
5. (India) A division of a hunting preserve.

• Henry Yule; A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903), “mehaul”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […], page 566.
• H. H. Wilson (1855), “mahal”, in A Glossary of Judicial and Revenue Terms: […] , W. H. Allen & Co., OCLC 1015441058, page 318

• Halma, Hamal, almah, amlah, halma, hamal

Borrowed from Malay mahal.

• Hyphenation: ma‧hal
• IPA^(key): /maˈhal/

mahál (intensified mahalon)

1. expensive

   Mahal na baga ini.

   This is already expensive.

   Antonym: barato

2. (literary) dear

   Mahal kong....

   Dear....

   Synonyms: padangat, padaba

Borrowed from Malay mahal.

• Hyphenation: ma‧hal
• IPA^(key): /maˈhal/, [mʌˈhal̪]

mahal

1. dear
2. expensive

   Antonym: barato

From Malay mahal, from Sanskrit महार्घ (mahārgha). Cognate of Tagalog mahal (“dear, expensive”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈmahal]
• Hyphenation: ma‧hal

mahal

1. expensive
2. rare, hard

• “mahal” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

From Sanskrit महार्घ (mahārgha).

• IPA^(key): (Standard) /mahal/, (Kelantan) [maha]
• Hyphenation: ma‧hal

mahal (Jawi spelling ماهل‎)

1. expensive

• kemahalan
• memahalkan

• Indonesian: mahal (“expensive”)
• → Tagalog: mahál (“dear, precious; expensive”)
  • → Bikol Central: mahál (“dear, expensive”)
  • → Cebuano: mahál (“dear, expensive”)
• → Waray-Waray: mahál (“expensive”)

• “mahal” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

• māl

From Proto-West Germanic *mahl, *maþl, from Proto-Germanic *mahlą, *maþlą (“assembly, council”).

mahal n

1. court, judicial assembly
2. agreement, contract
3. covenant, marriage vows

• Middle High German: mahel, māl
  • German: Mahl

Possibly from Sanskrit महार्घ (mahārgha) via Malay mahal. Compare Kapampangan mal, Bikol Central mahal, Cebuano mahal, and Asi mahay, Javanese ꦩꦲꦭ꧀ (mahal).

• Hyphenation: ma‧hal
• IPA^(key): /maˈhal/, [mɐˈhal]

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mahál (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜑᜎ᜔)

1. dear; precious; cherished

   Mahal kong Maynila, sayo'y hindi mawawalay

   My dear Manila, I won't part ways from you

   Mahal na (mga) Araw

   Holy Week

   (literally, “Valued Days”)

   Synonym: mahalaga

2. expensive; high-priced

   Synonym: magastos

   Antonym: mura

   Mahal na pang-matrikula

   Expensive tuition fee

3. (archaic) noble; exalted

   Synonyms: dakila, kagalang-galang, maginoo, maharlika, noblesa, marangal, pinagmamalaki

4. (obsolete) grave; serious

   Synonym: grabe

mahál (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜑᜎ᜔)

1. act of loving or valuing

   Synonyms: ibig, irog

2. beloved

   O aking mahal, sadyang pinagtagpo tayo ng tadhana!

   O my beloved, we have been led to meet by fate!

3. expensive items

• → Bikol Central: mahál (“dear, expensive”)
• → Cebuano: mahál (“dear, expensive”)

• “mahal”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018
• Fr. Juan José de Noceda; Fr. Pedro de Sanlucar (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎ (in Spanish & Tagalog), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier

From Ottoman Turkish محل‎ (mahal), from Arabic مَحَلّ‎ (maḥall).

mahal (definite accusative mahalli, plural mahaller)

1. place, location; post

• The Arabic plural is mahâl with a long vowel.

• mahalle (“neighborhood, quarter”)
• mahallî (“local”)

• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962), “mahall”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 674
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “mahal”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013) The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN

Borrowed from Malay mahal.

mahál

1. expensive