maalé

See also: maale and måle

Ladino

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish محله (mahalle, “station, parish, ward”), from Arabic مَحَلَّة (maḥalla).

Noun

maalé f (Latin spelling)

  1. quarter, neighborhood, street
    • 1883 August 3, La Epoka‎, number 734, ⁨Thessaloniki⁩, page 5:
      איל איסטאדﬞו אין כואל סי טופאבﬞח לח ּּּּּמאאלי […]
      El estado en kual se topava la maale […]
      The condition of the neighborhood […]

Derived terms

References
  • Aitor García Moreno, editor (2013–), “mahalé”, in Diccionario Histórico Judeoespañol (in Spanish), CSIC
  • Joseph Nehama, Jesús Cantera (1977) “maalé”, in Dictionnaire du Judéo-Espagnol (in French), Madrid: CSIC, →ISBN, page 334
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