malva

From the genus name, or in some Spanish or Portuguese contexts, from the Spanish or Portuguese word.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmæl.və/

malva (plural malvas)

1. Any plant of the genus Malva, a mallow.
   • 1989, Country Life, page 235:

     Another malva to note is M. moschata Alba, the white form of our native musk mallow.

   • 2000, Rosalind Creasy, Edible Mexican Garden, Tuttle Publishing, →ISBN, page 59:

     How to prepare: Cook the malvas the same way as amaranth and most other greens in Mexico are prepared[,] that is, briefly cooked with tomatoes or tomatillos and onions ...

   • 2004, Frances Manos, Midwest Cottage Gardening, Big Earth Publishing, →ISBN, page 79:

     If your hollyhocks are attacked by rust, and if hibiscus flowers are too tropical looking and gaudy for your taste, investigate another branch of the mallow family — the malvas. [...] This spring I started seeds of another malva named M. sylvestris 'Mauritiana', and every seed came up.

• malva rose
• malva pudding

• “malva”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

From Latin malva.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈmal.βə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈmal.və]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈmal.va]

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malva f (plural malves)

1. mallow
2. mauve

• “malva”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “malva”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “malva” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “malva” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmalva/
• Rhymes: -alva
• Hyphenation: mal‧va

malva (accusative singular malvan, plural malvaj, accusative plural malvajn)

1. mauve colored
   mauve:  
2. related to a mallow plant

• malvo (“mauve”)

From Latin malva.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑlʋɑ/, [ˈmɑ̝lʋɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑlʋɑ
• Syllabification^(key): mal‧va
• Hyphenation^(key): mal‧va

malva

1. mallow (flowering plant in the taxonomic family Malvaceae, especially in the genus Malva)

• “malva”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

• Valma

From Latin malva.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmalβɐ]

malva f (plural malvas)

1. mallow (any plant of the family Malvaceae)

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “malva”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “malva”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “malva”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

malva

1. inflection of malvar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

From Latin malva, of Semitic origin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmal.va/
• Rhymes: -alva
• Hyphenation: màl‧va

malva f (plural malve)

1. mallow (plant)

malva m (invariable)

1. mauve

malva (invariable)

1. mauve

• malvone / malvarosa

Unknown, but likely a substrate word related to Hebrew מַלּוּחַ (mallū́aḥ, “saltbush”) and Ancient Greek μαλάχη (malákhē, “mallow”).^[1] Compare also Middle Armenian բաղբակ (baġbak) and Georgian ბალბა (balba, “mallow”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmaɫ.wa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmal.va]

malva f (genitive malvae); first declension

1. mallow

First-declension noun.

• malvāceus

• “malva”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “malva”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• malva in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “malva”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

From Latin malva.

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malva f (plural malvas)

1. mallow

• mauva (“Gascon, Provençal, vivaro-alpine, Limousin”)

From Latin malva, of Semitic origin.

• Rhymes: -alvɐ, -awvɐ
• Hyphenation: mal‧va

malva f (plural malvas)

1. mallow (any plant of the family Malvaceae)

Inherited from Latin malva, of Semitic origin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmalba/ [ˈmal.β̞a]
• Rhymes: -alba
• Syllabification: mal‧va

malva f (plural malvas)

1. mallow
2. mauve (color)

malva m or f (masculine and feminine plural malvas)

1. mauve (color)

• “malva”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Borrowed from Latin malva.

malva c

1. mallow

• malva in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
• malva in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)