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• rhymes with -eɪl
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• homophone: male
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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /meɪl/
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• US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• India, North: /mel/
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• India, South: /mɛj(ɪ)l/
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• CMU ARPABET: M EY1 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *molko-der.? Thracianbor.? Proto-Germanic *malhō Frankish *malhabor. Medieval Latin malader. Anglo-Norman malebor. ▲ Old French malebor. Middle English male English mail From Middle English male, from Anglo-Norman male, Old French male (“bag, wallet”), from Frankish *malha (“bag”), from Proto-Germanic *malhō (“bag, pouch”), from Proto-Indo-European *molko- (“leather pouch”). Compare Dutch maal.

From Middle English mayle (“mail armor”), borrowed from Old French maille (“loop, stitch”), from Vulgar Latin *macla, from Latin macula (“blemish, mesh”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *smh1-tleh2, from *smeh1- (“smear, rub”). Compare maillot.

From Middle English mal, male from Old English māl (“speech, contract, agreement”) from Old Norse mál (“agreement, speech, lawsuit”). Akin to Old English mǣl (“speech”). Related to Old English mǣlan (mell), maþelian (“to speak out, declare”). From *maþlą (“meeting-place”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *meh2d- (“to encounter, come”), if so, related to meet, and moot.

261 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: postë — postal delivery system
• Amharic: ፖስታ (posta) — postal delivery system
• Arabic: بَرِيد (barīd) — postal delivery system
• Arabic: بريد (barīd) — postal delivery system
• Arabic: بوسطة (busṭa) — postal delivery system
• Arabic: بريد (barīd) — postal delivery system
• Arabic: بوسطة (bosṭa) — postal delivery system
• Armenian: փոստ (pʻost) — postal delivery system
• Assamese: ডাক (dak) — postal delivery system
• Azerbaijani: poçta — postal delivery system
• Belarusian: по́шта (póšta) — postal delivery system
• Bengali: ডাক (ḍak) — postal delivery system
• Central Bikol: surat — postal delivery system
• Bulgarian: по́ща (póšta) — postal delivery system
• Burmese: စာပို့ (capui.) — postal delivery system
• Burmese: စာပို့ဆက်သွယ်ရေး (capui.hcakswaire:) — postal delivery system
• Burmese: စာပို့စနစ် (capui.ca.nac) — postal delivery system
• Catalan: correu — postal delivery system
• Chinese Cantonese: 郵件 /邮件 — postal delivery system
• Chinese Cantonese: 郵政 /邮政 — postal delivery system
• Chinese: юҗү (iužü) — postal delivery system
• Chinese: почта (počta) — postal delivery system
• Chinese Mandarin: 郵件 /邮件 (yóujiàn) — postal delivery system
• Chinese Mandarin: 郵政 /邮政 (yóuzhèng) — postal delivery system
• Czech: pošta — postal delivery system
• Danish: post — postal delivery system
• Dutch: post — postal delivery system
• Esperanto: poŝto — postal delivery system
• Estonian: post — postal delivery system
• Finnish: posti — postal delivery system
• French: poste — postal delivery system
• French: courrier — postal delivery system
• Galician: correo — postal delivery system
• Georgian: ფოსტა (posṭa) — postal delivery system
• German: Post — postal delivery system
• Greek: ταχυδρομείο (tachydromeío) — postal delivery system
• Hebrew: דואר \ דֹּאַר (dóar) — postal delivery system
• Hindi: डाक (ḍāk) — postal delivery system
• Hungarian: posta — postal delivery system
• Icelandic: póstur — postal delivery system
• Ido: posto — postal delivery system
• Indonesian: pos — postal delivery system
• Ingrian: posti — postal delivery system
• Italian: posta — postal delivery system
• Japanese: 郵便 (yūbin) — postal delivery system
• Kazakh: пошта (poşta) — postal delivery system
• Khmer: ប្រៃសណីយ៍ (praysaʼnii) — postal delivery system
• Korean: 우편 (upyeon) — postal delivery system
• Northern Kurdish: poste — postal delivery system
• Northern Kurdish: berîd — postal delivery system
• Kyrgyz: почта (pocta) — postal delivery system
• Lao: ໄປສະນີ (pai sa nī) — postal delivery system
• Latvian: pasts — postal delivery system
• Lithuanian: paštas — postal delivery system
• Macedonian: пошта (pošta) — postal delivery system
• Malay: pos — postal delivery system
• Mongolian: шуудан (šuudan) — postal delivery system
• Norman: courrier — postal delivery system
• Norwegian Bokmål: post — postal delivery system
• Norwegian Nynorsk: post — postal delivery system
• Pannonian Rusyn: пошта (pošta) — postal delivery system
• Pashto: ډاګ (ḍāg) — postal delivery system
• Pashto: پوسته (posta) — postal delivery system
• Iranian Persian: پُسْت (post) — postal delivery system
• Plautdietsch: Post — postal delivery system
• Polish: poczta — postal delivery system
• Portuguese: correio — postal delivery system
• Romanian: poștă — postal delivery system
• Russian: по́чта (póčta) — postal delivery system
• Serbo-Croatian: по̏шта — postal delivery system
• Serbo-Croatian: pȍšta — postal delivery system
• Sinhalese: තැපැල (tæpæla) — postal delivery system
• Slovak: pošta — postal delivery system
• Slovene: pošta — postal delivery system
• Spanish: correo — postal delivery system
• Swedish: post — postal delivery system
• Tagalog: koreo — postal delivery system
• Tajik: почта (počta) — postal delivery system
• Telugu: తపాలా (tapālā) — postal delivery system
• Thai: ไปรษณีย์ (bprai-sà-nii) — postal delivery system
• Turkish: posta — postal delivery system
• Ottoman Turkish: پوسته (posta) — postal delivery system
• Turkmen: poçta — postal delivery system
• Ukrainian: по́шта (póšta) — postal delivery system
• Urdu: ڈاک (ḍāk) — postal delivery system
• Uyghur: پوچتا (pochta) — postal delivery system
• Uzbek: pochta — postal delivery system
• Vietnamese: bưu chính — postal delivery system
• Vietnamese: bưu điện — postal delivery system
• Yiddish: פּאָסט (post) — postal delivery system
• Armenian: փոստ (pʻost) — organisation
• Belarusian: по́шта (póšta) — organisation
• Bulgarian: по́ща (póšta) — organisation
• Bulgarian: по́щенска слу́жба (póštenska slúžba) — organisation
• Czech: pošta — organisation
• Danish: postvæsenet — organisation
• Danish: posten — organisation
• Finnish: posti — organisation
• French: poste — organisation
• Galician: correo — organisation
• German: Post — organisation
• Greek: ταχυδρομείο (tachydromeío) — organisation
• Hungarian: posta — organisation
• Italian: poste — organisation
• Latvian: pasts — organisation
• Lithuanian: paštas — organisation
• Plautdietsch: Post — organisation
• Portuguese: correio — organisation
• Russian: по́чта (póčta) — organisation
• Slovak: pošta — organisation
• Spanish: correo — organisation
• Swedish: post — organisation
• Ottoman Turkish: پوسته (posta) — organisation
• Ukrainian: по́шта (póšta) — organisation
• Yiddish: פּאָסט (post) — organisation
• Armenian: փոստ (pʻost) — parcels and letters
• Belarusian: по́шта (póšta) — parcels and letters
• Belarusian: карэспандэ́нцыя (karespandéncyja) — parcels and letters
• Bulgarian: по́ща (póšta) — parcels and letters
• Bulgarian: пра́тка (prátka) — parcels and letters
• Catalan: correu — parcels and letters
• Catalan: correspondència — parcels and letters
• Chichewa: makalata — parcels and letters
• Chinese Mandarin: 郵件 /邮件 (yóujiàn) — parcels and letters
• Czech: pošta — parcels and letters
• Danish: post — parcels and letters
• Finnish: posti — parcels and letters
• French: courrier — parcels and letters
• French: correspondance — parcels and letters
• Galician: correo — parcels and letters
• Georgian: ფოსტა (posṭa) — parcels and letters
• German: Post — parcels and letters
• Greek: αλληλογραφία (allilografía) — parcels and letters
• Greek: ταχυδρομείο (tachydromeío) — parcels and letters
• Hungarian: posta — parcels and letters
• Ingrian: posti — parcels and letters
• Interlingua: posta — parcels and letters
• Italian: posta — parcels and letters
• Japanese: 郵便 (yūbin) — parcels and letters
• Khmer: សំបុត្រ (sɑmbot) — parcels and letters
• Korean: 우편 (upyeon) — parcels and letters
• Latvian: pasts — parcels and letters
• Lithuanian: paštas — parcels and letters
• Māori: mēra — parcels and letters
• Plautdietsch: Post — parcels and letters
• Portuguese: correspondência — parcels and letters
• Russian: по́чта (póčta) — parcels and letters
• Russian: корреспонде́нция (korrespondéncija) — parcels and letters
• Slovak: pošta — parcels and letters
• Spanish: correspondencia — parcels and letters
• Spanish: correo — parcels and letters
• Swedish: post — parcels and letters
• Ottoman Turkish: پوسته (posta) — parcels and letters
• Ukrainian: по́шта (póšta) — parcels and letters
• Ukrainian: кореспонде́нція (korespondéncija) — parcels and letters
• Vietnamese: bưu điện — parcels and letters
• Yiddish: פּאָסט (post) — parcels and letters
• Bulgarian: по́ща (póšta) — electronic mail
• Bulgarian: електро́нна по́ща (elektrónna póšta) — electronic mail
• Bulgarian: имейл (imejl) — electronic mail
• Catalan: correu electrònic — electronic mail
• Danish: mail — electronic mail
• Danish: e-mail — electronic mail
• Danish: e-post — electronic mail
• Esperanto: retpoŝto — electronic mail
• Finnish: sähköposti — electronic mail
• French: courrier électronique — electronic mail
• French: courriel — electronic mail
• French: e-mail — electronic mail
• German: E-Mail — electronic mail
• Greek: ηλεκτρονικό ταχυδρομείο (ilektronikó tachydromeío) — electronic mail
• Hungarian: e-mail — electronic mail
• Hungarian: ímél — electronic mail
• Hungarian: villanyposta — electronic mail
• Hungarian: villámposta — electronic mail
• Hungarian: drótposta — electronic mail
• Ido: e-posto — electronic mail
• Indonesian: surel — electronic mail
• Italian: posta elettronica — electronic mail
• Italian: e-mail — electronic mail
• Italian: mail — electronic mail
• Latvian: e-pasts — electronic mail
• Latvian: (qoloquial) mails — electronic mail
• Lithuanian: el-paštas — electronic mail
• Iranian Persian: پُسْتِ اِلِکْتِرونیک (post-e elekteronik) — electronic mail
• Iranian Persian: ایمِیل (imeyl) — electronic mail
• Iranian Persian: رایانامِه (râyânâme) — electronic mail
• Portuguese: correio eletrônico — electronic mail
• Portuguese: e-mail — electronic mail
• Russian: электро́нная по́чта (elektrónnaja póčta) — electronic mail
• Russian: по́чта (póčta) — electronic mail
• Russian: мы́ло (mýlo) — electronic mail
• Spanish: correo electrónico — electronic mail
• Spanish: mail — electronic mail
• Swedish: mejl — electronic mail
• Swedish: mail — electronic mail
• Tagalog: sulatroniko — electronic mail
• Albanian: thurak — armour consisting of metal rings or plates linked together
• Bashkir: һауыт (hawıt) — armour consisting of metal rings or plates linked together
• Bulgarian: ризница (riznica) — armour consisting of metal rings or plates linked together
• Catalan: cota de malles — armour consisting of metal rings or plates linked together
• Chinese Mandarin: 鎖子甲 /锁子甲 (suǒzijiǎ) — armour consisting of metal rings or plates linked together
• Danish: brynje — armour consisting of metal rings or plates linked together
• Dutch: maliënkolder — armour consisting of metal rings or plates linked together
• Finnish: rengaspanssari — armour consisting of metal rings or plates linked together
• Finnish: silmukkapanssari — armour consisting of metal rings or plates linked together
• French: cotte de mailles — armour consisting of metal rings or plates linked together
• Galician: cota — armour consisting of metal rings or plates linked together
• Galician: loriga — armour consisting of metal rings or plates linked together
• Galician: cota de malla — armour consisting of metal rings or plates linked together
• German: Ringpanzerhemd — armour consisting of metal rings or plates linked together
• German: Kettengeflecht — armour consisting of metal rings or plates linked together
• German: Kettenpanzer — armour consisting of metal rings or plates linked together
• German: Kettenhemd — armour consisting of metal rings or plates linked together
• Greek: θώρακας (thórakas) — armour consisting of metal rings or plates linked together
• Greek: πανοπλία (panoplía) — armour consisting of metal rings or plates linked together
• Hungarian: páncél — armour consisting of metal rings or plates linked together
• Ingrian: rautapaita — armour consisting of metal rings or plates linked together
• Italian: maglia — armour consisting of metal rings or plates linked together
• Italian: cotta — armour consisting of metal rings or plates linked together
• Italian: cotta di maglia — armour consisting of metal rings or plates linked together
• Japanese: 鎖帷子 (kusarikatabira) — armour consisting of metal rings or plates linked together
• Korean: 쇄자갑 (swaejagap) — armour consisting of metal rings or plates linked together
• Latin: sūta — armour consisting of metal rings or plates linked together
• Middle English: mayle — armour consisting of metal rings or plates linked together
• Polish: kolczuga — armour consisting of metal rings or plates linked together
• Portuguese: malha — armour consisting of metal rings or plates linked together
• Russian: кольчу́га (kolʹčúga) — armour consisting of metal rings or plates linked together
• Spanish: malla — armour consisting of metal rings or plates linked together
• Spanish: cota de malla — armour consisting of metal rings or plates linked together
• Swedish: brynja — armour consisting of metal rings or plates linked together
• Ukrainian: кольчу́га (kolʹčúha) — armour consisting of metal rings or plates linked together
• Arabic: بريد — to send via the post
• Catalan: enviar — to send via the post
• Chinese Cantonese: 寄 (gei3) — to send via the post
• Finnish: postittaa — to send via the post
• French: poster — to send via the post
• German: mailen — to send via the post
• German: versenden — to send via the post
• German: schicken — to send via the post
• German: verschicken — to send via the post
• Greek: ταχυδρομώ (tachydromó) — to send via the post
• Hungarian: elküld — to send via the post
• Hungarian: felad — to send via the post
• Hungarian: postáz — to send via the post
• Interlingua: postar — to send via the post
• Interlingua: inviar — to send via the post
• Italian: inviare — to send via the post
• Italian: impostare — to send via the post
• Lithuanian: siųsti — to send via the post
• Māori: pōhi — to send via the post
• Polish: wysyłać — to send via the post
• Polish: wysłać — to send via the post
• Portuguese: postar — to send via the post
• Portuguese: enviar — to send via the post
• Portuguese: remeter — to send via the post
• Portuguese: expedir — to send via the post
• Serbo-Croatian: послати — to send via the post
• Serbo-Croatian: poslati — to send via the post
• Spanish: enviar (por correo) — to send via the post
• Swedish: posta — to send via the post