محل

Apparent noun of place from the root ح ل ل (ḥ l l); compare حَلَّ (ḥalla, “to solve, loosen”).

• IPA^(key): /ma.ħall/

مَحَلّ • (maḥall) m (plural مَحَالّ (maḥāll) or مَحَلَّات (maḥallāt))

1. place, location, spot, station

   هُمَا مَحَلَّانِ مَا لِلنَّاسِ غَيْرُهُمَـا فَٱنْظُرْ لِنَفْسِك مَاذَا أَنْتَ مُخْتَارُ

   humā maḥallāni mā li-n-nāsi ḡayruhumā fa-nẓur li-nafsik māḏā ʔanta muḵtāru

   They are two places, people have none other than them. So look for yourself, which one will you choose?

2. store, shop

   Synonym: مَتْجَر (matjar)

3. residence, abode, quarter
4. time and opportunity
5. delay, respite
6. assembly in the house of a dead person

• مَحَلِّيّ (maḥalliyy, “local”)
• مَحَلَّة (maḥalla, “neighborhood”)

• → Bashkir: мәл (məl)
• → Kyrgyz: маал (maal)
• → Persian: محل
  • → Hindi: महल (mahal)
  • → Marathi: महाल (mahāl)
  • → Punjabi:

    Gurmukhi script: ਮਹਿਲ (mahil)

    Shahmukhi script: محل (mahal)

  • → Urdu: مَحَل (mahal)
• → Hausa: màhâllī
• → Ottoman Turkish: محل
  • → Turkish: mahal
• → Uyghur: مەھەل (mehel)
• → Uzbek: mahal

مَحَلَ or مَحِلَ • (maḥala or maḥila) I (non-past يَمْحَلُ (yamḥalu), verbal noun مَحْل (maḥl) or مِحَال (miḥāl))
مَحُلَ • (maḥula) I (non-past يَمْحُلُ (yamḥulu), verbal noun مَحْل (maḥl) or مِحَال (miḥāl))

1. to plot, to scheme [with بِ (bi) ‘against someone’]

مَحْل • (maḥl) m

1. verbal noun of مَحَلَ (maḥala, “to plot, to scheme”) (form I)
2. verbal noun of مَحِلَ (maḥila, “to plot, to scheme”) (form I)
3. verbal noun of مَحُلَ (maḥula, “to plot, to scheme”) (form I)

مَحَلَ or مَحِلَ • (maḥala or maḥila) I (non-past يَمْحَلُ (yamḥalu), verbal noun مَحْل (maḥl) or مُحُول (muḥūl))
مَحُلَ • (maḥula) I (non-past يَمْحُلُ (yamḥulu), verbal noun مَحَالَة (maḥāla))

1. to be sterile, to be barren (of land)

مَحْل • (maḥl) m

1. verbal noun of مَحَلَ (maḥala, “to be sterile, to be barren”) (form I)
2. verbal noun of مَحِلَ (maḥila, “to be sterile, to be barren”) (form I)
3. verbal noun of مَحُلَ (maḥula, “to be sterile, to be barren”) (form I)
4. sterility, barrenness, dearth
5. an unidentified fish
   • 1154, al-ʾIdrīsīy, نزهة المشتاق في اختراق الآفاق, الإقليم الأول - الجزء الثاني; commented by Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne, Goeje, Michael Jan (1866) Description de l'Afrique et de l'Espagne par Edrîsî‎^[1] (in French), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 378:

     وهذه البحيرة من أعاجيب الدنيا وذلك أن بها اثني عشر نوعاً من السمك يوجد منها في كل شهر نوع واحد لا يمتزج بغيره من أصناف السمك فإذا تم الشهر لم يوجد شيء من ذلك النوع في الشهر الآتي ثم يوجد في الشهر الآتي صنف من السمك آخر غير الصنف الأول لا يمتزج بغيره هكذا لكل شهر نوع من السمك لا يمتزج بسمك غيره إلى كمال السنة هكذا في كل عام وهذه الاثنا عشر نوع من الحوت التي ذكرناها هي البوري والقاجوج والمحل والطلنط والاشبلينيات والشلبة والقاروض واللاج والجوجة والكحلاء والطنفلو والقلا.

     This lake is one of the wonders of the world, for it has twelve species of fish, each month one is found therein, not mixing with any other species than itself, and when the month ends, nothing of that fish is found in the coming month, then in the coming month an other kind of fish is encountered, different from the first kind and not mixing with anything other than itself, thus every month a species of fish that does not mix with other fish, up to completion of a year and so every year, and these twelve species of fish that we have related are [a list of fish follows, some of which are unidentifiable].

From Ancient Greek μοχλός (mokhlós, “bar, lever”)..

• مُخْل (muḵl), مَحَال (maḥāl), مَحَالَة (maḥāla), مَخَال / مِخَال / مُخَال (maḵāl), مِيخَال (mīḵāl)

مُحْل • (muḥl) m

1. (archaic) block and tackle, muffle, lever
   • a. 943, سنان بن ثابت, edited by Mohammed Abattouy, On the Theory of Simple Machines, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin MS 3306‎^[2]:

     المحل: لا فرق بينه وبين القرسطون في حكمه

     The lever: There is no difference between it and the steelyard.

   • 1377, Ibn Khaldun, Prolegomena‎^[3]:

     وَرُبَّمَا يَتَوَهَّمُ كَثِيرٌ مِنَ ٱلنَّاسِ إِذَا نَظَرَ إِلَى آثَارِ ٱلْأَقْدَمِينَ وَمَصَانِعِهِمِ ٱلْعَظِيمَةِ مِثْلَ إِيوَانِ كِسْرَى وَأَهْرَامِ مِصْرَ وَحَنَايَا ٱلْمُعَلَّقَةِ وَشَرْشَالَ بِٱلْمَغْرِبِ إِنَّمَا كَانَتْ بِقَدْرِهِمْ مُتَفَرِّقِينَ أَوْ مُجْتَمِعِينَ فَيَتَخَيَّلُ لَهُمْ أَجْسَامًا تُنَاسِبُ ذَٰلِكَ، أَعْظَمُ مِنْ هَٰذِهِ بِكَثِيرٍ فِي طُولِهَا وَقَدْرِهَا لِتُنَاسِبَ بَيْنَهَا وَبَيْنَ ٱلْقَدْرِ ٱلَّتِي صَدَرَتْ تِلْكَ ٱلْمَبَانِي عَنْهَا، وَيَغْفُلُ عَنْ شَأْنِ ٱلْهِنْدَامِ وَٱلْمُخَالِ وَمَا ٱقْتَضَتْهُ فِي ذَٰلِكَ ٱلصِّنَاعَةُ ٱلْهَنْدَسِيَّةُ.

     warubbamā yatawahhamu kaṯīrun mina n-nāsi ʔiḏā naẓara ʔilā ʔāṯāri l-ʔaqdamīna wamaṣāniʕihimi l-ʕaẓīmati miṯla ʔīwāni kisrā waʔahrāmi miṣra waḥanāyā l-muʕallaqati wašaršāla bi-l-maḡribi ʔinnamā kānat biqadrihim mutafarriqīna ʔaw mujtamiʕīna fayataḵayyalu lahum ʔajsāman tunāsibu ḏālika, ʔaʕẓamu min hāḏihi bikaṯīrin fī ṭūlihā waqadrihā litunāsiba baynahā wabayna l-qadri llatī ṣadarat tilka l-mabānī ʕanhā, wayaḡfulu ʕan šaʔni l-hindāmi wal-muḵāli wamā qtaḍathu fī ḏālika ṣ-ṣināʕatu l-handasiyyatu.

     Perhaps, if many think about the remnants of the ancients and their great buildings like the arcade-yard of Khusrow and the pyramids of Egypt and the connected cambers and Cherchell in the Maghreb, they were in their size piecemeal or collective work and one has to imagine their bodies to match that, much so in their length and scale to find an analogy between them and between the scale from which these buildings have risen; one fails to pay heed to the employment of machines duplicating power and the block and tackle and that which one availed oneself of in such engineering work.

From Arabic مَحَلّ (maḥall).

• IPA^(key): [mæhæll]

محل • (maḥall) m

1. store

From Arabic مَحَلّ (maḥall).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaħall/, [ˈmaħal]

مَحَل • (maḥall) m (plural مَحَلَّات (maḥallāt))

1. shop, store

   Synonym: دُكَّان (dukkān)

2. place, location

   Synonym: مَكَان (makān)

From Arabic مَحَلّ (maḥall).

• IPA^(key): /maħalː/

محل • (maḥall) m (plural محلات (maḥallāt))

1. place, location

   Synonyms: بلاصة (blāṣa), موضع (mūḍaʕ, mūṭaʕ)

2. store

   Synonym: حانوت (ḥānūt)

Borrowed from Arabic مَحَلّ (maḥall).

مَحَلّ • (mahall)

1. place, location

   Synonyms: مَکان (makân), جا (jâ)

   مَحَلِّ کار ― mahall-e kâr ― workplace

   محل تصادف ― mahall-e tasâdof ― location of the accident

   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 3786:

     در محل قهر این رحمت ز چیست
     اژدها را دست‌‌دادن راه کیست

     dar mahall-i qahr īn rahmat za čīst
     aždahā rā dast-dādan rāh kīst

     Wherefore this mercy in the place of vengeance?
     Whose way is it to give the hand to a dragon?”

2. residence, quarter

• → Hindi: महल (mahal)
• → Marathi: महाल (mahāl)
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਮਹਿਲ (mahil)

  Shahmukhi script: محل (mahal)

• → Urdu: مَحَل (mahal)

Borrowed from Classical Persian محل (mahall), from Arabic مَحَلّ (maḥall).

• (Standard Punjabi) Phonetic: mǣ́lă IPA^(key): /mɛː˦lə̆/

محل • (mahal) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਮਹਿਲ)

1. mansion, palace
2. wife

From Arabic مَحَلّ (maḥall).

• IPA^(key): /ma.ħall/, [maˈħal]

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محلّ • (maḥall) m (plural محلّات (maḥallāt))

1. place, room

   Synonyms: مكان (makān), مطرح (maṭraḥ)

2. shop, store, department store

   Synonym: دكّان (dukkān)

Borrowed from Classical Persian محل (mahall), from Arabic مَحَلّ (maḥall).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /mə.ɦəl/, [mɛ.ɦɛl]
• Rhymes: -ɛl, -əl

مَحَل • (mahal) m (formal plural محلات, Hindi spelling महल)

1. palace
2. woman's quarters

• “محل”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “محل”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “محل”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.