mallar

Catalan

Etymology

From mall +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [məˈʎa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [maˈʎaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Northwestern) [maˈʎa]

Verb

mallar (first-person singular present mallo, first-person singular preterite mallí, past participle mallat)

1. (transitive) to hammer, to forge
2. (transitive, dialectal) to thresh

Conjugation

    Central Catalan conjugation of mallar (first conjugation)

infinitive			mallar
gerund			mallant
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		mallat		mallada
		plural		mallats		mallades
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		jo	tu	ell/ella vostè	nosaltres nós	vosaltres vós	ells/elles vostès
	present	mallo	malles	malla	mallem	malleu	mallen
	imperfect	mallava	mallaves	mallava	mallàvem	mallàveu	mallaven
	future	mallaré	mallaràs	mallarà	mallarem	mallareu	mallaran
	preterite	mallí	mallares	mallà	mallàrem	mallàreu	mallaren
	conditional	mallaria	mallaries	mallaria	mallaríem	mallaríeu	mallarien
subjunctive		jo	tu	ell/ella vostè	nosaltres nós	vosaltres vós	ells/elles vostès
	present	malli	mallis	malli	mallem	malleu	mallin
	imperfect	mallés	mallessis	mallés	malléssim	malléssiu	mallessin
imperative		—	tu	vostè	nosaltres	vosaltres vós	vostès
	affirmative	—	malla	malli	mallem	malleu	mallin
	negative (no)	—	no mallis	no malli	no mallem	no malleu	no mallin

Derived terms

• maller

Further reading

• “mallar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Galician

Alternative forms

• malhar (reintegrationist)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maˈɟaɾ/ [maˈɟaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Hyphenation: ma‧llar

Etymology 1

From mallo (“hammer; flail”).

mallando

Verb

mallar (first-person singular present mallo, first-person singular preterite mallei, past participle mallado)

1. (agriculture) to thresh

   Synonym: trillar

   • 1302, Miguel Romaní Martínez (ed.), La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira. Santiago: Tórculo Edicións (1989, 1989, 1993), page 1253:

     et cada natal III soldos de leoneses ou a quantia deles et un dia de segar et outro de mallar en a grangia sobredita.

     and every Christmas [you'll give] III Leonese soldos, or their equivalent value, and a day of harvest and a day of threshing in the aforementioned farm

2. to hammer

   Synonym: mazar

3. (figurative) to beat up

   Synonyms: bourar, brear, cascar, mazar

   Mallaron en min canto quixeron! ― They beat me up as much as they wanted to!

4. (figurative) to exhaust

   Synonyms: cansar, fatigar, moer

   Estou mallado! ― I'm exhausted!

Conjugation

    Conjugation of mallar

	Singular			Plural
	First-person (eu)	Second-person (ti)	Third-person (el / ela / Vde.)	First-person (nós)	Second-person (vós)	Third-person (eles / elas / Vdes.)
Infinitive
Impersonal	mallar
Personal	mallar	mallares	mallar	mallarmos	mallardes	mallaren
Gerund
	mallando
Past participle
Masculine	mallado			mallados
Feminine	mallada			malladas
Indicative
Present	mallo	mallas	malla	mallamos	mallades	mallan
Imperfect	mallaba	mallabas	mallaba	mallabamos	mallabades	mallaban
Preterite	mallei	mallaches	mallou	mallamos	mallastes	mallaron
Pluperfect	mallara	mallaras	mallara	mallaramos	mallarades	mallaran
Future	mallarei	mallarás	mallará	mallaremos	mallaredes	mallarán
Conditional	mallaría	mallarías	mallaría	mallariamos	mallariades	mallarían
Subjunctive
Present	malle	malles	malle	mallemos	malledes	mallen
Imperfect	mallase	mallases	mallase	mallásemos	mallásedes	mallasen
Future	mallar	mallares	mallar	mallarmos	mallardes	mallaren
Imperative
Affirmative		malla	malle	mallemos	mallade	mallen
Negative (non)		non malles	non malle	non mallemos	non malledes	non mallen

Derived terms

• mallada
• malladoira
• Malladoira
• malladoiro
• Malladoiro
• Malladoura

Related terms

• malla
• malleira
• mallo

Etymology 2

From malla (“net”).

Verb

mallar (first-person singular present mallo, first-person singular preterite mallei, past participle mallado)

1. (fishing, transitive) to net, capture fish with a net
2. (fishing, intransitive) to get caught by a net

   Synonym: enredar

Conjugation

    Conjugation of mallar

	Singular			Plural
	First-person (eu)	Second-person (ti)	Third-person (el / ela / Vde.)	First-person (nós)	Second-person (vós)	Third-person (eles / elas / Vdes.)
Infinitive
Impersonal	mallar
Personal	mallar	mallares	mallar	mallarmos	mallardes	mallaren
Gerund
	mallando
Past participle
Masculine	mallado			mallados
Feminine	mallada			malladas
Indicative
Present	mallo	mallas	malla	mallamos	mallades	mallan
Imperfect	mallaba	mallabas	mallaba	mallabamos	mallabades	mallaban
Preterite	mallei	mallaches	mallou	mallamos	mallastes	mallaron
Pluperfect	mallara	mallaras	mallara	mallaramos	mallarades	mallaran
Future	mallarei	mallarás	mallará	mallaremos	mallaredes	mallarán
Conditional	mallaría	mallarías	mallaría	mallariamos	mallariades	mallarían
Subjunctive
Present	malle	malles	malle	mallemos	malledes	mallen
Imperfect	mallase	mallases	mallase	mallásemos	mallásedes	mallasen
Future	mallar	mallares	mallar	mallarmos	mallardes	mallaren
Imperative
Affirmative		malla	malle	mallemos	mallade	mallen
Negative (non)		non malles	non malle	non mallemos	non malledes	non mallen

Related terms

• enmallar
• malla

References

• “mallar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “malhar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “mallar”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “mallar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “mallar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “mallar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “mallar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Old Leonese

Etymology

Derived from Latin malleus, through a form like *mallo. Found in a text (De Proprietatibus Rerum), a translation from Latin to Spanish with very heavy influence from Leonese.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maˈʝaɾ/
  • (Bragança, Zamora) IPA^(key): /maˈʎaɾ/

Verb

mallar

1. to crush

Descendants

• Asturian: mayar
• Leonese: mayare, machare

Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /maˈʝaɾ/ [maˈʝaɾ]

• IPA^(key): /maˈʝaɾ/ [maˈʝaɾ] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)
• IPA^(key): /maˈʎaɾ/ [maˈʎaɾ] (rustic northern Spain, northern and central Andes Mountains (except central Ecuador), Bolivia, Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, Philippines)
• IPA^(key): /maˈʃaɾ/ [maˈʃaɾ] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /maˈʒaɾ/ [maˈʒaɾ] (central Ecuador, Santiago del Estero and environs, elsewhere in Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay)
• IPA^(key): /maˈjaɾ/ [maˈjaɾ] (northern Mexico, Yucatán, Central America (except Panama))

• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ma‧llar

Verb

mallar (first-person singular present mallo, first-person singular preterite mallé, past participle mallado)

1. synonym of enmallar
2. alternative form of majar

Conjugation

    Conjugation of mallar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			mallar
gerund			mallando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		mallado		mallada
		plural		mallados		malladas
		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	mallo	mallastú mallásvos	malla	mallamos	malláis	mallan
	imperfect	mallaba	mallabas	mallaba	mallábamos	mallabais	mallaban
	preterite	mallé	mallaste	malló	mallamos	mallasteis	mallaron
	future	mallaré	mallarás	mallará	mallaremos	mallaréis	mallarán
	conditional	mallaría	mallarías	mallaría	mallaríamos	mallaríais	mallarían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	malle	mallestú mallésvos2	malle	mallemos	malléis	mallen
	imperfect (ra)	mallara	mallaras	mallara	malláramos	mallarais	mallaran
	imperfect (se)	mallase	mallases	mallase	mallásemos	mallaseis	mallasen
	future1	mallare	mallares	mallare	malláremos	mallareis	mallaren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		mallatú mallávos	malle	mallemos	mallad	mallen
	negative		no malles	no malle	no mallemos	no malléis	no mallen

¹Rare; now chiefly used in legal language.
²Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tuteo-form for the present subjunctive.

    Selected combined forms of mallar

These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.

		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
with infinitive mallar	dative	mallarme	mallarte	mallarle, mallarse	mallarnos	mallaros	mallarles, mallarse
	accusative	mallarme	mallarte	mallarlo, mallarla, mallarse	mallarnos	mallaros	mallarlos, mallarlas, mallarse
with gerund mallando	dative	mallándome	mallándote	mallándole, mallándose	mallándonos	mallándoos	mallándoles, mallándose
	accusative	mallándome	mallándote	mallándolo, mallándola, mallándose	mallándonos	mallándoos	mallándolos, mallándolas, mallándose
with informal second-person singular tuteo imperative malla	dative	mállame	mállate	mállale	mállanos	not used	mállales
	accusative	mállame	mállate	mállalo, mállala	mállanos	not used	mállalos, mállalas
with informal second-person singular voseo imperative mallá	dative	mallame	mallate	mallale	mallanos	not used	mallales
	accusative	mallame	mallate	mallalo, mallala	mallanos	not used	mallalos, mallalas
with formal second-person singular imperative malle	dative	málleme	not used	mállele, mállese	mállenos	not used	málleles
	accusative	málleme	not used	mállelo, mállela, mállese	mállenos	not used	mállelos, mállelas
with first-person plural imperative mallemos	dative	not used	mallémoste	mallémosle	mallémonos	mallémoos	mallémosles
	accusative	not used	mallémoste	mallémoslo, mallémosla	mallémonos	mallémoos	mallémoslos, mallémoslas
with informal second-person plural imperative mallad	dative	malladme	not used	malladle	malladnos	mallaos	malladles
	accusative	malladme	not used	malladlo, malladla	malladnos	mallaos	malladlos, malladlas
with formal second-person plural imperative mallen	dative	mállenme	not used	mállenle	mállennos	not used	mállenles, mállense
	accusative	mállenme	not used	mállenlo, mállenla	mállennos	not used	mállenlos, mállenlas, mállense

Further reading

• “mallar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• Seco, Manuel; Andrés, Olimpia; Ramos, Gabino (2023), “mallar”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA

Swedish

Noun

mallar

1. indefinite plural of mall

Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /malˈlaɾ/
• Hyphenation: mal‧lar

Noun

mallar

1. nominative plural of mal