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mall
shopping mall /ˈmol/
noun#4570 most common
Also: shopping center, mall building
Example sentences
Mergem la mall.
We're going to the mall.
Mallul este aproape de casă.
The mall is close to home.
Sâmbătă am fost la mall cu prietenii.
On Saturday I went to the mall with my friends.
În acest oraș s-au construit mai multe mall-uri în ultimii zece ani.
Several malls have been built in this city over the last ten years.
Parcarea mallului de lângă gară a fost extinsă anul trecut.
The parking lot of the mall near the train station was expanded last year.
Proliferarea mallurilor din periferia bucureșteană a schimbat radical obiceiurile de cumpărături ale locuitorilor.
The proliferation of malls in the outskirts of Bucharest has radically changed residents' shopping habits.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | mall / mallul | mall-uri / mallurile |
| Genitive | mallului | mallurilor |
| Accusative | mall / mallul | mall-uri / mallurile |
| Vocative | None | None |
Word family
mallshopping mall (indefinite)
mallulthe mall (definite singular)
mall-urimalls (plural)
shoppingcolloquial synonym for a shopping center, as in "mergem la shopping"
Etymology
Romanian borrowed "mall" directly from English in the 1990s and 2000s, when Western-style shopping centers first appeared after the fall of communism. English "mall" originally meant a shaded public walkway, named after the game of pall-mall, in which players struck a ball with a mallet through a hoop. That game name came via Italian "pallamaglio," from "palla" (ball) and "maglio" (mallet), which traces back to Latin "malleus," meaning hammer.
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