English Online Dictionary. What means hall? What does hall mean?
English
Etymology
From Middle English halle, from Old English heall (“hall, dwelling, house; palace, temple; law-court”), from Proto-West Germanic *hallu, from Proto-Germanic *hallō (“hall”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to hide, conceal”).
Cognate with Scots hall, haw (“hall”), Dutch hal (“hall”), German Halle (“hall”), Norwegian hall (“hall”), Swedish hall (“hall”), Icelandic höll (“palace”), Latin cella (“room, cell”), Sanskrit शाला (śā́lā, “house, mansion, hall”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /hɔːl/
- (US) IPA(key): /hɔl/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /hɑl/
- Rhymes: -ɔːl
- Homophone: haul
Noun
hall (plural halls)
- A corridor; a hallway.
- A meeting room.
- A manor house (originally because a magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion).
- A building providing student accommodation at a university.
- The principal room of a secular medieval building.
- (obsolete) Cleared passageway through a crowd, as for dancing.
- A place for special professional education, or for conferring professional degrees or licences.
- a Divinity Hall; Apothecaries' Hall
- (India) A living room.
- (Oxbridge) A college's canteen, which is often but not always coterminous with a traditional hall.
- (Oxbridge slang) A meal served and eaten at a college's hall.
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Greek: χολ (chol), χωλ (chol), χωλλ (choll)
- → Japanese: ホール (hōru)
- → Korean: 홀 (hol)
- → Russian: холл (xoll)
Translations
Albanian
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *(s)kel- (compare English shallow, Middle High German hel (“tired, weak”), Ancient Greek σκέλλω (skéllō, “to dry up”), σκληρός (sklērós, “hard, harsh”)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /haɫ/
Noun
hall m (indefinite plural halle, definite singular halli, definite plural hallet)
- trouble
References
Chinese
Etymology
From English hall.
Pronunciation
Noun
hall
- (Hong Kong Cantonese) assembly hall; auditorium
- (Hong Kong Cantonese) residence hall; dormitory
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from English hall. Doublet of hal.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [hɒːl]
Noun
hall c (singular definite hallen, plural indefinite haller)
- hall (a corridor or a hallway)
Inflection
Estonian
Etymology 1
From Proto-Finnic *halla, from pre-Finnic *šalna, from Proto-Balto-Slavic [Term?]. Compare Latvian salna, Lithuanian šalna.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhɑlː/, [ˈ(h)ɑlː]
Noun
hall (genitive halla, partitive halla)
- frost
Declension
Etymology 2
From Proto-Finnic *halli (compare Finnish halli), from Balto-Slavic. Compare Latvian salnis, Lithuanian šalnis (“off-white, roan”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhɑlʲː/, [ˈ(h)ɑlʲː]
Adjective
hall (genitive halli, partitive halli, comparative hallim, superlative kõige hallim)
- grey (color)
Declension
Derived terms
- hallitama
See also
Etymology 3
German Halle.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhɑlʲː/, [ˈ(h)ɑlʲː]
Noun
hall (genitive halli, partitive halli)
- hall (large room or building)
Declension
Further reading
- hall in Sõnaveeb
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English hall.
Pronunciation
- (aspirated h) IPA(key): /ol/
Noun
hall m (plural halls)
- hall
- lobby
Further reading
- “hall”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hal/
- Rhymes: -al
Verb
hall
- singular imperative of hallen
- (colloquial) first-person singular present of hallen
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈhɒlː]
- Rhymes: -ɒlː
Etymology 1
From the conflation of Proto-Uralic *kontale- (compare Old Hungarian hadl (“hear”), Mansi хӯнтли (hūntli), Finnish kuunnella) and Proto-Uralic *kule- (compare Mansi хӯлуӈкве (hūluňkwe) and Finnish kuulla).
Verb
hall
- (intransitive) to hear (to perceive sounds through the ear)
- (transitive) to hear (to perceive with the ear)
- Hallottam egy hangot a szobából. ― I heard a sound from the room.
Usage notes
This verb is a member of one of those (few) quasi-homonymous verb pairs that exist both with and without an -ik ending. All (intransitive) suffixed forms of these pairs are identical (sometimes they can even have derived forms that coincide), with the exception of their dictionary form (the third-person singular indicative present, with or without -ik). However, the meaning of these pairs is usually distinct, sometimes unrelated. Examples include (fel)áldoz–(le)áldozik, bán–bánik, (meg)bíz–(meg)bízik, ér–érik, esz (rare)–eszik, hajol–hajlik, (felül)múl–(el)múlik, (hozzá)nyúl–nyúlik, (el)vesz–(el)veszik~(el)vész, and tör–törik (along with their verbal prefixes), hall–hallik (archaic), érez–érzik (archaic), sometimes with some difference: (el)hibáz–hibádzik, (le)torkol–torkollik. Therefore one may well need to check the context and the arguments to ascertain which member of the verb pair is relevant.
Conjugation
Derived terms
(With verbal prefixes):
Etymology 2
Borrowed from German Halle.
Noun
hall (plural hallok)
- middle-sized, windowless room, entryway, hallway (in a private flat/apartment, with a size not smaller than 8 m² [86 sq ft], with space for people, but without affording them privacy due to its being an entry to other rooms)
- Synonym: előtér
- Coordinate terms: szoba, helyiség, félszoba, alkóv, gardrób, előszoba, hálószoba, nappali
- lobby, foyer, lounge (e.g. in a hotel or an opera house)
- Synonyms: társalgó, előcsarnok
Declension
Derived terms
References
Further reading
- (to hear): hall in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
- (entryway): hall in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
Ludian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *halla, borrowed from Baltic. Cognates include Finnish halla.
Noun
hall
- frost
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse hǫll.
Noun
hall m (definite singular hallen, indefinite plural haller, definite plural hallene)
- a hall (a building or very large room)
Derived terms
- idrettshall
- ishall
- svømmehall
References
- “hall” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hɑlː/
Etymology 1
From Old Norse hǫll. Akin to English hall.
Noun
hall m (definite singular hallen, indefinite plural hallar, definite plural hallane)
hall f (definite singular halla, indefinite plural haller, definite plural hallene)
- a hall (a building or very large room)
Derived terms
- idrettshall
- ishall
- svømmehall, symjehall
Etymology 2
From Old Norse hallr.
Noun
hall n (definite singular hallet, indefinite plural hall, definite plural halla)
- a slope, sloping terrain
Derived terms
- bakhall
- grashall
References
- “hall” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English hall.
Pronunciation
Noun
hall m (plural halls)
- (architecture) lobby; entrance hall (room in a building used for entry from the outside)
- Synonyms: átrio, entrada
Derived terms
- hall da fama
Romanian
Noun
hall n (plural halluri)
- Obsolete form of hol.
Declension
References
- hall in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN
Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English hall.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈxol/ [ˈxol]
- Rhymes: -ol
Noun
hall m (plural halls)
- hall, lobby, lounge
Usage notes
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Further reading
- “hall”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse hǫll, from Proto-Germanic *hallō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel-. Compare English hall. Related to Latin cella and English cellar.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hal/
Noun
hall c
- a hallway
- a lounge
- a corridor
- an entryway
- short for any of the words:
- simhall
- ishall
- sporthall
- verkstadshall
- mässhall
Usage notes
Most commonly refers to a small room just inside the front door of a residential building, where shoes and outerwear are taken off or put on.