Mall in Different Languages
Discover 'Mall' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Mall
Afrikaans winkelsentrum | ||
Albanian qendër tregtare | ||
Amharic የገበያ ማዕከል | ||
Arabic مجمع تجاري | ||
Armenian առեւտրի կենտրոն | ||
Assamese মল | ||
Aymara qhathu | ||
Azerbaijani ticarət mərkəzi | ||
Bambara kɛsu | ||
Basque zentro komertziala | ||
Belarusian гандлёвы цэнтр | ||
Bengali মল | ||
Bhojpuri मॉल | ||
Bosnian tržni centar | ||
Bulgarian търговски център | ||
Catalan centre comercial | ||
Cebuano mall | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 购物中心 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 購物中心 | ||
Corsican mall | ||
Croatian tržni centar | ||
Czech nákupní centrum | ||
Danish indkøbscenter | ||
Dhivehi މޯލް | ||
Dogri माल | ||
Dutch winkelcentrum | ||
English mall | ||
Esperanto butikcentro | ||
Estonian kaubanduskeskus | ||
Ewe fiasegã | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) mall | ||
Finnish ostoskeskus | ||
French centre commercial | ||
Frisian winkelsintrum | ||
Galician centro comercial | ||
Georgian სავაჭრო ცენტრი | ||
German einkaufszentrum | ||
Greek εμπορικό κέντρο | ||
Guarani nemurenda | ||
Gujarati મોલ | ||
Haitian Creole sant komèsyal | ||
Hausa mal | ||
Hawaiian hale kūʻai | ||
Hebrew קֶנִיוֹן | ||
Hindi मॉल | ||
Hmong khw | ||
Hungarian pláza | ||
Icelandic verslunarmiðstöð | ||
Igbo nnukwu ụlọ ahịa | ||
Ilocano paggatangan | ||
Indonesian mall | ||
Irish meall | ||
Italian centro commerciale | ||
Japanese モール | ||
Javanese mal | ||
Kannada ಮಾಲ್ | ||
Kazakh сауда орталығы | ||
Khmer ផ្សារទំនើប | ||
Kinyarwanda isoko | ||
Konkani मॉल | ||
Korean 쇼핑 센터 | ||
Krio mɔl | ||
Kurdish mall | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) مۆڵ | ||
Kyrgyz соода борбору | ||
Lao ສູນການຄ້າ | ||
Latin vir | ||
Latvian tirdzniecības centrs | ||
Lingala esika ya mombongo | ||
Lithuanian prekybos centras | ||
Luganda ekizimbe ekya moolo | ||
Luxembourgish akafszenter | ||
Macedonian трговски центар | ||
Maithili मॉल | ||
Malagasy mall | ||
Malay pusat membeli-belah | ||
Malayalam മാൾ | ||
Maltese mall | ||
Maori hokomaha | ||
Marathi मॉल | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯑꯆꯧꯕ ꯗꯂꯥꯟ ꯑꯣꯏꯕ ꯀꯩꯠꯦꯜ | ||
Mizo thilh zawrhna hmunpui | ||
Mongolian худалдааны төв | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ကုန်တိုက် | ||
Nepali मल | ||
Norwegian kjøpesenter | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kumsika | ||
Odia (Oriya) ମଲ୍ | ||
Oromo gamoo daldalaa guddaa | ||
Pashto مال | ||
Persian مرکز خرید | ||
Polish centrum handlowe | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) shopping | ||
Punjabi ਮਾਲ | ||
Quechua hatun qatu | ||
Romanian centru comercial | ||
Russian торговый центр | ||
Samoan faleoloa | ||
Sanskrit विपणि | ||
Scots Gaelic mall | ||
Sepedi mmolo | ||
Serbian тржни центар | ||
Sesotho mabenkele | ||
Shona mall | ||
Sindhi مال | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) සාප්පුව | ||
Slovak nákupné centrum | ||
Slovenian nakupovalni center | ||
Somali suuqa | ||
Spanish centro comercial | ||
Sundanese mall | ||
Swahili maduka | ||
Swedish köpcenter | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) mall | ||
Tajik фурӯшгоҳ | ||
Tamil மால் | ||
Tatar сәүдә үзәге | ||
Telugu మాల్ | ||
Thai ห้างสรรพสินค้า | ||
Tigrinya ዕዳጋ | ||
Tsonga molo | ||
Turkish alışveriş merkezi | ||
Turkmen söwda merkezi | ||
Twi (Akan) adetɔnbea | ||
Ukrainian торговий центр | ||
Urdu مال | ||
Uyghur سودا سارىيى | ||
Uzbek savdo markazi | ||
Vietnamese trung tâm mua sắm | ||
Welsh mall | ||
Xhosa ivenkile | ||
Yiddish מאָל | ||
Yoruba ile itaja | ||
Zulu yezitolo |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | From German "Winkelsentrum", meaning "shopping centre". |
| Amharic | የገበያ ማዕከል can also mean a group of shops or businesses or shopping area |
| Arabic | In Arabic, مجمع تجاري ("mall") literally means "commercial complex". |
| Azerbaijani | In Turkish, |
| Basque | Zentro komertziala's literal meaning is 'commercial center', and it also means 'large enclosed shopping center' in Basque. |
| Bengali | The word "মল" in Bengali can also refer to waste, dirt, or feces. |
| Bosnian | The word "tržni centar" comes from the Slavic root "trg" meaning "market". This reflects its historic role as a place where goods were traded. |
| Bulgarian | The word "търговски център" (mall) in Bulgarian also means "shopping center" or "commercial center". |
| Catalan | In Catalan, "centre comercial" also means "business district" and not just "mall" |
| Cebuano | The Cebuano term 'mall' is believed to originate from the Spanish 'malecón', a word that refers to a promenade along a waterfront. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | In Chinese, "购物中心" originally referred to a shopping street or district, but now primarily means a modern shopping mall. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 購物中心在中文中源自於英文「mall」，原指城市中提供遮陽、避雨的走廊，後來引申為專門販售商品的室內建築。 |
| Corsican | In Corsican, mall has the alternate meaning of "slope". |
| Croatian | The Croatian word "tržni centar" is derived from the German word "Jahrmarkt", meaning "marketplace" or "fair". |
| Czech | The Czech word "nákupní centrum" translates to "shopping center" in English and is formed by combining the words "nákup" (purchase) and "centrum" (center). |
| Danish | "Indkøbscenter" is compound word consisting of the words "indkøbe" meaning "to buy" and "center" meaning "centre". |
| Dutch | The word "winkelcentrum" literally translates to "shopping centre" in English, but its alternative meaning is "angle centre", referring to its often triangular shape. |
| Esperanto | The word "butikcentro" is a compound of the words "butiko" (shop) and "centro" (center), and it specifically refers to a shopping center or mall with multiple shops in one location. |
| Estonian | The word "kaubanduskeskus" derives from the Estonian words "kaubandus" (trade) and "keskus" (centre), and literally means "trade centre." |
| Finnish | The name 'ostoskeskus' literally refers to a 'buying center'. |
| French | In French, "centre commercial" can also refer to a shopping district or a town center. |
| Frisian | The word "winkelsintrum" comes from the German "winkel" (=shop) and the Dutch "centrum" (=centre). |
| Galician | A word play in Galician, "centro comercial" also means "geographic center of a village". |
| Georgian | The word "mall" comes from the Latin word "malleus", meaning "hammer", and was originally used to refer to a gathering place for merchants. |
| German | "Einkaufszentrum" is the German word for "shopping mall". It literally translates to "shopping center". |
| Greek | The word "εμπορικό κέντρο" is literally translated as "commercial center" in English, not "mall", and it can also refer to a shopping street or a downtown area. |
| Gujarati | "મોલ" (mall) also means "goods" or "merchandise" in Gujarati. |
| Haitian Creole | Sant Komèsyal derives from English "Center Commercial" or French "Centre Commercial". |
| Hausa | The Hausa word "mal" also means "wealth" or "property". |
| Hawaiian | Hale kūʻai, translated to 'place of trade' or 'market,' derives from the Proto-Polynesian root *fale, designating a building, and *kūʻai, meaning 'to buy' or 'barter'. |
| Hebrew | The word "קֶנִיוֹן" in Hebrew is derived from the Latin word "cannium", meaning "reed" or "cane". |
| Hindi | In Urdu, the word "mall" refers to a "wrestler" or a "strong man." |
| Hmong | The Hmong word "khw" can also refer to a market or a fair. |
| Hungarian | The Hungarian word "pláza" derives from the Italian word "piazza" which means "public square". |
| Icelandic | "Verslunarmiðstöð" is Icelandic for "mall" but also means "a place where people buy and sell things"} |
| Indonesian | The Indonesian word "mall" is derived from the Dutch word "mal", which originally referred to a public square or market. |
| Irish | The Irish word "Meall" also means "hillock" or "hummock". |
| Italian | The word 'centro commerciale' can also refer to a 'shopping center' or a 'business center'. |
| Japanese | In Japanese, "モール" can also refer to the mole skin fabric or the act of molting. |
| Javanese | "Mal" in Javanese not only means "mall", but also "village" or "city." |
| Kannada | The Kannada word 'ಮಾಲ್' ('maḷ') derives from the Persian word 'مال' ('maal'), which originally meant 'property, goods, wealth', and later acquired the specific meaning of 'shopping mall'. |
| Kazakh | In English, the word "mall" can also refer to an area of a city or a gathering place. |
| Korean | In Korean, "쇼핑 센터" can also refer to individual stores or shops, not just the entire shopping center complex. |
| Kurdish | In Kurdish, "mall" can also mean "wealth" or "property." |
| Latin | The Latin word "vir" also means "man" or "hero." |
| Latvian | The word "tirdzniecības centrs" is derived from the words "tirdzniecība" (trade) and "centrs" (center), and originally referred to a centralized marketplace. |
| Lithuanian | "Prekybos centras" literally means "trading center" in Lithuanian. |
| Macedonian | The word 'трговски центар' comes from the Serbian language and means 'trade center' or 'shopping center'. |
| Malagasy | "Mall" in Malagasy can also mean "a small village". |
| Malay | The word "pusat membeli-belah" literally means "shopping center" in Malay, but can also refer to a specific type of shopping mall that is a large, enclosed, and climate-controlled retail space. |
| Malayalam | The Malayalam word "മാൾ" derives from the Hindustani word "मॉल" and ultimately the Dutch word "Maal," meaning "cargo" or "goods". |
| Maltese | The word "mall" in Maltese also means "post". |
| Maori | The word "hokomaha" has the dual meaning of "to shop" and "a place to shop" in Maori and is used to describe markets, shops, and shopping malls. |
| Marathi | In Marathi, "मॉल" means a flower garden or a marketplace, unlike its modern meaning in English, which refers to a shopping mall. |
| Nepali | The Nepali word "मल" (mal) can also refer to feces, dirt, or impurity. |
| Norwegian | Kjøpesenter comes from the verb 'å kjøpe' ('to buy') and the noun 'senter' ('center'). |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | In Nyanja, the word "kumsika" can also refer to a type of market or trading center. |
| Pashto | "مال" means both "wealth" and "village" in Pashto. |
| Persian | "مرکز خرید" (mall) literally means "shopping center" in Persian. |
| Polish | Centrum handlowe derives from the New Latin word centrum, meaning "center", and the Polish word handlowe, meaning "commercial." |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The word "shopping" in Portuguese can also refer to a small store or a street where there are many shops. |
| Punjabi | The Punjabi word 'ਮਾਲ' (mall) derives from the Persian word 'mål,' meaning 'wealth' or 'property.' |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "centru comercial" is derived from the Latin word "centrum", meaning "center" or "hub", and the French word "commercial", referring to a place of business or trade. |
| Russian | 'Торговый центр' is also used to refer to a 'shopping center' |
| Samoan | The Samoan word 'faleoloa' comes from the Polynesian root word 'fale', meaning 'house', and 'loa', meaning 'long', indicating the extended structure of a shopping mall. |
| Scots Gaelic | The word "mall" in Scots Gaelic can also refer to a gathering or assembly of people. |
| Serbian | "Тржни центар" has the alternate meaning "market center" |
| Sesotho | The word mabenkele in Sesotho is derived from the word mabantlele, meaning 'small houses'. |
| Shona | In Shona, "mall" can refer to a strip mall or a small neighborhood shopping center, similar to the English usage. |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi word "مال" (mall) shares a common origin with the English word "mall" and refers to a large open public space in a city. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | Originally derived from the Dutch word "saal," meaning "hall," and commonly used to refer to a large room or hall, especially one used for public gatherings. |
| Slovak | The word "nákupné centrum" literally means "shopping center" in Slovak. |
| Slovenian | "Nakupovalni center" in Slovenian consists of two words. "Nakupovanje" means "shopping" and "center" is derived from the Latin "centrum" meaning "point". So, literally translated, "nakupovalni center" means "shopping point". |
| Somali | The word "suuqa" can also refer to a marketplace or a bazaar. |
| Spanish | "Centro comercial" literally means "commercial center" and can also refer to a shopping center or a business district. |
| Sundanese | The Sundanese word "mall" can also refer to a valley or ravine. |
| Swahili | The Swahili word "maduka" can also refer to shops or a marketplace |
| Swedish | The word 'köpcenter' is a loanword from English and means 'shopping center'. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The Tagalog term "mall" is derived from Spanish "paseo" (promenade), originating from Latin "ambulare" (to walk), alluding to its usage as recreational walking space. |
| Tajik | The word "фурӯшгоҳ" is derived from the Persian word "فروشگاه", which means "shop" or "store". |
| Tamil | The word மால் (Mall) also denotes the Tamil god Vishnu and wealth or riches in Tamil |
| Telugu | "మాల్" is also a word for `wealth` in Telugu, originating from Persian `māl` meaning `property, goods`. |
| Thai | "ห้างสรรพสินค้า" derives from an Old Mon word "hansa" (house for storing merchandise) through Middle Khmer into Old Thai. |
| Turkish | The word alışveriş merkezi is a compound word composed of the Turkish words "alış" (buying) and "veriș" (selling), hence its meaning of "shopping center". |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian word "торговий центр" also means "shopping center". |
| Urdu | The word "مال" can also mean "wealth" or "property" in Urdu. |
| Uzbek | In Uzbek, "savdo markazi" directly translates to "trade center," but commonly refers to what is known as a "mall" in English. |
| Vietnamese | The word "trung tâm mua sắm" is derived from the Italian word "macello", meaning "slaughterhouse". In English, "mall" also refers to a paved pedestrian walkway, typically lined with trees. |
| Welsh | The word "mall" in Welsh also means "a place to buy animals for slaughter". |
| Xhosa | Ivenkile is an alternative term for 'shopping centre' in Xhosa, derived from the English word 'even-keel'. |
| Yiddish | The word "מאָל" in Yiddish derives from the German "Mahl", meaning "time" or "meal". |
| Yoruba | The word "Ile Itaja" was originally used to describe the large, open areas outside the city walls where markets were held; its literal meaning is "house of the city wall". |
| Zulu | The word 'yezitolo' is also used to describe a shopping centre, plaza, or market. |
| English | The word mall derives from the Latin word malleus, meaning hammer, and its initial meaning was a gathering place, such as a public building, a promenade, or a walk. |