hall

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• Received-Pronunciation: /hɔːl/
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• Australian, British, New-Zealand, Southern, Standard: /hoːl/
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• /hɔl/ without the cot–caught merger
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• cot-caught-merger: /hɑl/
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• US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• Scotland: /hɔl/
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• Northumbria: /haːl/
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• rhymes with -ɔːl
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• homophone: haul
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• CMU ARPABET: HH AO1 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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* As an English, Scottish, Irish, German, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish surname: all from the noun hall. The name was likely reinforced by similar sounding words such as Swedish häll (“rock slab”). * As a Chinese surname, variant Romanization of 何, 賀 /贺 (hè), see He. ** (locomotive): The locomotives were named after English and Welsh country houses with 'Hall' in their titles. ** (British and Scandinavian surnames): From the buildings, halls

Inherited from Middle English halle (“hall”), from Old English heall (“hall, dwelling, house, palace, temple, law-court”), from Proto-West Germanic *hallu (“hall”), 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”), Danish hal (“hall, sports centre”), Faroese høll (“hall, palace”), Icelandic höll (“palace”), Norwegian hall (“hall”), Swedish hall (“hall”), Latin cella (“room, cell”), Sanskrit शाला (śā́lā, “house, mansion, hall”). Doublet of cell and cella.

168 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Armenian: միջանցք (miǰancʻkʻ) — corridor or a hallway
• Belarusian: пярэ́дні пако́й (pjarédni pakój) — corridor or a hallway
• Bulgarian: вестибю́л (vestibjúl) — corridor or a hallway
• Catalan: corredor — corridor or a hallway
• Chinese Mandarin: 走廊 (zǒuláng) — corridor or a hallway
• Czech: chodba — corridor or a hallway
• Czech: ulička — corridor or a hallway
• Dutch: hal — corridor or a hallway
• Dutch: gang — corridor or a hallway
• Finnish: käytävä — corridor or a hallway
• Finnish: eteinen — corridor or a hallway
• French: couloir — corridor or a hallway
• French: corridor — corridor or a hallway
• Galician: corredor — corridor or a hallway
• German: Flur — corridor or a hallway
• German: Gang — corridor or a hallway
• German: Korridor — corridor or a hallway
• German: Diele — corridor or a hallway
• Greek: χολ (chol) — corridor or a hallway
• Greek: διάδρομος (diádromos) — corridor or a hallway
• Hebrew: מִסְדְּרוֹן (misdrón) — corridor or a hallway
• Hebrew: פְּרוֹזְדוֹר (prozdór) — corridor or a hallway
• Irish: halla — corridor or a hallway
• Italian: corridoio — corridor or a hallway
• Japanese: 玄関 (genkan) — corridor or a hallway
• Japanese: 廊下 (rōka) — corridor or a hallway
• Korean: 회관 (hoegwan) — corridor or a hallway
• Latin: auditorium — corridor or a hallway
• Oromo: galma — corridor or a hallway
• Iranian Persian: هال (hâl) — corridor or a hallway
• Iranian Persian: تالار (tâlâr) — corridor or a hallway
• Polish: hol — corridor or a hallway
• Polish: przedpokój — corridor or a hallway
• Polish: sala — corridor or a hallway
• Portuguese: corredor — corridor or a hallway
• Romanian: coridor — corridor or a hallway
• Romanian: hol — corridor or a hallway
• Russian: коридо́р (koridór) — corridor or a hallway
• Russian: приёмная (prijómnaja) — corridor or a hallway
• Russian: вестибю́ль (vestibjúlʹ) — corridor or a hallway
• Russian: фойе́ (fojjé) — corridor or a hallway
• Russian: холл (xoll) — corridor or a hallway
• Slovak: chodba — corridor or a hallway
• Lower Sorbian: wjaža — corridor or a hallway
• Spanish: pasillo — corridor or a hallway
• Spanish: hall (hol) — corridor or a hallway
• Spanish: jol — corridor or a hallway
• Spanish: antesala — corridor or a hallway
• Spanish: zaguán — corridor or a hallway
• Tamil: நடைபாதை (naṭaipātai) — corridor or a hallway
• Turkish: koridor — corridor or a hallway
• Turkish: hol — corridor or a hallway
• Turkish: dalan — corridor or a hallway
• Ottoman Turkish: دهلیز (dehliz, dihliz) — corridor or a hallway
• Ukrainian: передпо́кій (peredpókij) — corridor or a hallway
• Ukrainian: хол (xol) — corridor or a hallway
• Ukrainian: фойє́ (fojjé) — corridor or a hallway
• Ukrainian: прийма́льня (pryjmálʹnja) — corridor or a hallway
• Walloon: poice — corridor or a hallway
• Walloon: colidôr — corridor or a hallway
• Albanian: sallë — large meeting room
• Southern Altai: зал (zal) — large meeting room
• Arabic: قَاعَة (qāʕa) — large meeting room
• Arabic: صَالَة (ṣāla) — large meeting room
• Armenian: սրահ (srah) — large meeting room
• Armenian: դահլիճ (dahlič) — large meeting room
• Azerbaijani: zal — large meeting room
• Belarusian: за́ла (zála) — large meeting room
• Bulgarian: за́ла (zála) — large meeting room
• Bulgarian: ау́ла (aúla) — large meeting room
• Chinese Mandarin: 大廳 /大厅 (dàtīng) — large meeting room
• Chinese Mandarin: 廳堂 /厅堂 (tīngtáng) — large meeting room
• Chinese Mandarin: 會堂 /会堂 (huìtáng) — large meeting room
• Danish: sal — large meeting room
• Dutch: zaal — large meeting room
• Esperanto: halo — large meeting room
• Estonian: aula — large meeting room
• Estonian: saal — large meeting room
• Finnish: sali — large meeting room
• French: salle — large meeting room
• French: salon — large meeting room
• French: hall — large meeting room
• Galician: salón — large meeting room
• Georgian: დარბაზი (darbazi) — large meeting room
• Georgian: ზალა (zala) — large meeting room
• German: Halle — large meeting room
• German: Saal — large meeting room
• German: Aula — large meeting room
• Greek: αίθουσα (aíthousa) — large meeting room
• Hebrew: אוּלָם (ulám) — large meeting room
• Hungarian: terem — large meeting room
• Icelandic: salur — large meeting room
• Indonesian: aula — large meeting room
• Irish: halla — large meeting room
• Italian: sala — large meeting room
• Japanese: ホール (hōru) — large meeting room
• Kazakh: зал (zal) — large meeting room
• Korean: 홀 (hol) — large meeting room
• Kyrgyz: зал (zal) — large meeting room
• Norwegian Bokmål: sal — large meeting room
• Iranian Persian: سالُن (sâlon) — large meeting room
• Iranian Persian: تالار (tâlâr) — large meeting room
• Plautdietsch: Haul — large meeting room
• Polish: sala — large meeting room
• Portuguese: salão — large meeting room
• Romanian: sală — large meeting room
• Russian: зал (zal) — large meeting room
• Russian: за́ла (zála) — large meeting room
• Spanish: salón — large meeting room
• Spanish: vestíbulo — large meeting room
• Spanish: hall (hol) — large meeting room
• Spanish: jol — large meeting room
• Swedish: sal — large meeting room
• Tagalog: bulwagan — large meeting room
• Tajik: толор (tolor) — large meeting room
• Tajik: зал (zal) — large meeting room
• Tamil: அரங்கம் (araṅkam) — large meeting room
• Tamil: மன்றம் (maṉṟam) — large meeting room
• Turkish: salon — large meeting room
• Ukrainian: зал (zal) — large meeting room
• Uzbek: zal — large meeting room
• Vietnamese: phòng — large meeting room
• Yiddish: זאַל (zal) — large meeting room
• Chinese Mandarin: 甲第 (jiǎdì) — manor house
• Dutch: villa — manor house
• Dutch: herenhuis — manor house
• Estonian: mõis — manor house
• Finnish: kartano — manor house
• French: manoir — manor house
• Galician: pazo — manor house
• German: Herrenhaus — manor house
• Greek: μέγαρο (mégaro) — manor house
• Irish: teach mór — manor house
• Polish: rezydencja — manor house
• Russian: уса́дьба (usádʹba) — manor house
• Russian: поме́стье (poméstʹje) — manor house
• Arabic: مَهْجَع (mahjaʕ) — building providing student accommodation
• Belarusian: інтэрна́т (internát) — building providing student accommodation
• Bulgarian: общежи́тие (obštežítie) — building providing student accommodation
• Chinese Mandarin: 宿舍 (sùshè) — building providing student accommodation
• Dutch: studentenflat — building providing student accommodation
• Estonian: õpilaselamu — building providing student accommodation
• Estonian: ühikas — building providing student accommodation
• Finnish: asuntola — building providing student accommodation
• French: foyer — building providing student accommodation
• French: résidence universitaire — building providing student accommodation
• Galician: residencia universitaria — building providing student accommodation
• German: Studentenwohnheim — building providing student accommodation
• Greek: φοιτητική εστία (foititikí estía) — building providing student accommodation
• Greek: φοιτητική εστία (foititikí estía) — building providing student accommodation
• Hungarian: kollégium — building providing student accommodation
• Japanese: 寮 (ryō) — building providing student accommodation
• Japanese: 宿舎 (shukusha) — building providing student accommodation
• Korean: 기숙사 (gisuksa) — building providing student accommodation
• Russian: общежи́тие (obščežítije) — building providing student accommodation
• Ukrainian: гурто́житок (hurtóžytok) — building providing student accommodation
• Welsh: neuadd — building providing student accommodation
• Armenian: սրահ (srah) — principal room of a secular medieval building
• Bulgarian: за́ла (zála) — principal room of a secular medieval building
• Dutch: zaal — principal room of a secular medieval building
• Estonian: saal — principal room of a secular medieval building
• Finnish: sali — principal room of a secular medieval building
• French: salle — principal room of a secular medieval building
• German: Saal — principal room of a secular medieval building
• German: Halle — principal room of a secular medieval building
• Portuguese: saguão — principal room of a secular medieval building
• Russian: зал (zal) — principal room of a secular medieval building
• Russian: за́ла (zála) — principal room of a secular medieval building