mal
English
noun
Definitions
- (only in set phrases) illness, affliction.
Etymology
Borrowed from French mal (badly, well, illness, bad).
Origin
French
mal
Gloss
badly, well, illness, bad
Concept
Semantic Field
The physical world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
病
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- mini-mal English
- mal French
- mal à propos French
- malheur French
- malintentionné French
- malmener French
- malsain French
- malveillant French
- malvenu French
- maudire French
- maudit French
- malplassert Norwegian Bokmål
- malplassert Norwegian Nynorsk
- mal Old French
- malelve Mauritian Creole
- malelve Seychellois Creole