malen

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaː.lə(n)/
• Hyphenation: ma‧len
• Rhymes: -aːlən
• Homophone: Malen

From Middle Dutch mālen, from Old Dutch *malan, from Proto-West Germanic *malan, from Proto-Germanic *malaną.

malen

1. (transitive) to grind
2. (intransitive, informal) to worry, overthink

   Synonym: tobben

• Afrikaans: maal
• Berbice Creole Dutch: mali
• Negerhollands: maal

From Middle Dutch mâlen, from Old Dutch *mālon, denominative of *māl (“spot, stain”), from Proto-West Germanic *māl (modern maal).

malen

1. (obsolete) to paint

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

malen

1. plural of maal
2. plural of male

• mahlen (obsolete)

From Middle High German mālen, from Old High German mālōn, mālēn, denominative of māl (“spot, stain”), from Proto-West Germanic *mālijan, from Proto-Germanic *mēlijaną (compare Dutch maal), from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“dark color”) (compare Lithuanian mė́las (“black”), Ancient Greek μέλας (mélas, “dark-colored, black”)).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaːlən/, [maːl̩n] (Germany)

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• IPA^(key): /ˈmaːlɛn/, [maːl̩n] (Austria, Southern Germany, Switzerland)
• Hyphenation: ma‧len
• Rhymes: -aːlən, -aːlɛn
• Homophone: mahlen

malen (weak, third-person singular present malt, past tense malte, past participle gemalt, auxiliary haben)

1. (intransitive) to paint (do paintwork)
2. (transitive or intransitive) to paint (create a painting)
3. (loosely) to draw, depict (with a pencil, computer program, etc.)

   Synonym: (more strictly correct) zeichnen

• anmalen
• bemalen

• → Polish: malować
• → Romanian: molări
• → Russian: малевать (malevatʹ)
• → Ukrainian: малювати (maljuvaty)

• “malen”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)
• “malen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “malen” in Duden online
• “malen” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
• “malen” in OpenThesaurus.de
• malen on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

From Old Dutch *malan, from Proto-West Germanic *malan, from Proto-Germanic *malaną.

mālen

1. to grind
2. to mill

• Dutch: malen
  • Afrikaans: maal
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: mali
  • Negerhollands: maal
• Limburgish: male

From Old Dutch *mālon, denominative of *māl (“spot, stain”), from Proto-West Germanic *māl (modern maal).

mâlen

1. to paint
2. to sculpt

• Dutch: malen
• Limburgish: maole

• “malen (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “malen (III)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “malen (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “malen (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page II

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈmalən/

malen (class 6 strong, third-person singular present melet, past tense muol, past participle gemalen, past subjunctive müele, auxiliary hān)

1. alternative form of maln

malen m sg

1. definite singular of mal

malen m sg

1. definite singular of mal

Variant of mal, from mal +‎ -en.

• IPA^(key): /mǎlen/
• Hyphenation: mal‧en

màlen (Cyrillic spelling ма̀лен, definite màlenī, comparative mȁnjī)

1. small

   Antonym: velik

• mȃl
• manjina

• “malen”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

• (verb form) IPA^(key): [ˈmɑːlˌɛn]
• (noun form) IPA^(key): [ˈmɑːl.ən]

malen

1. past participle of mala

malen

1. definite singular of mal

• almen, lemna