malva

malva (plural malvas)

1. A plant of the genus Malva, a mallow.
   • 1989, Country Life, page 235:

     Another malva to note is M. moschata Alba, the white form of our native musk mallow.

   • 2000, Rosalind Creasy, Edible Mexican Garden, Tuttle Publishing, →ISBN, page 59:

     How to prepare: Cook the malvas the same way as amaranth and most other greens in Mexico are prepared[,] that is, briefly cooked with tomatoes or tomatillos and onions ...

   • 2004, Frances Manos, Midwest Cottage Gardening, Big Earth Publishing, →ISBN, page 79:

     If your hollyhocks are attacked by rust, and if hibiscus flowers are too tropical looking and gaudy for your taste, investigate another branch of the mallow family — the malvas. [...] This spring I started seeds of another malva named M. sylvestris 'Mauritiana', and every seed came up.

• malva pudding

From Latin malva.

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ˈmal.və/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈmal.bə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈmal.va/

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malva f (plural malves)

1. mallow
2. mauve

• “malva” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “malva”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “malva” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “malva” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmalva]
• Rhymes: -alva
• Hyphenation: mal‧va

malva (accusative singular malvan, plural malvaj, accusative plural malvajn)

1. mauve colored
   mauve:  
2. related to a mallow plant

• malvo (“mauve”)

From Latin malva.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑlʋɑ/, [ˈmɑlʋɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑlʋɑ
• Syllabification^(key): mal‧va

malva

1. mallow (flowering plant in the taxonomic family Malvaceae, especially in the genus Malva)

• Valma

From Latin malva.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmalβɐ]

malva f (plural malvas)

1. mallow (any plant of the family Malvaceae)

• “malva” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “malva” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “malva” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Latin malva, of Semitic origin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmal.va/
• Rhymes: -alva
• Hyphenation: màl‧va

malva f (plural malve)

1. mallow (plant)

malva m (invariable)

1. mauve

malva (invariable)

1. mauve

• malvone / malvarosa

Unknown, Related to Ancient Greek μαλάχη (malákhē), Middle Armenian բաղբակ (bałbak) and Georgian ბალბა (balba, “mallow”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmal.u̯a/, [ˈmäɫ̪u̯ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmal.va/, [ˈmälvä]

malva f (genitive malvae); first declension

1. mallow

First-declension noun.

• malvāceus

• “malva”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “malva”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• malva in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “malva”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

From Latin malva.

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malva f (plural malvas)

1. mallow

• mauva (“Gascon, Provençal, vivaro-alpine, Limousin”)

From Latin malva, of Semitic origin.

• Rhymes: -alvɐ, -awvɐ
• Hyphenation: mal‧va

malva f (plural malvas)

1. mallow (any plant of the family Malvaceae)

From Latin malva, of Semitic origin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmalba/ [ˈmal.β̞a]
• Rhymes: -alba
• Syllabification: mal‧va

malva f (plural malvas)

1. mallow
2. mauve (color)

• chinche de la malva arbórea
• criar malvas

malva (plural malvas)

1. mauve (color)

• “malva”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

malva c

1. mallow

• läkemalva
• praktmalva
• malvaväxter