vall

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈbaʎ]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈvaʎ]

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• Homophone: ball (Central)
• Rhymes: -aʎ

Inherited from Old Catalan vall from Latin vallem. Compare Occitan val, vath.

vall f (plural valls)

1. valley

   Antonym: muntanya

• avall
• vallada

From Latin vallum.

vall m (plural valls)

1. moat

   Synonym: fossat

• “vall”, 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
• “vall” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Middle Low German wal.

• IPA^(key): /vˈɑlʲː/

vall (genitive valli, partitive valli)

1. embankment, earthwork, wall; a defensive fortification made of earth or stone
2. embankment; any long mound of earth, stone, or snow

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɒlː]

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• Hyphenation: vall
• Rhymes: -ɒlː

vall

1. (transitive) to confess, to admit

   Synonyms: bevall, elismer, beismer

   1. (intransitive, law) to testify, to bear witness

      Synonyms: tanúskodik, vallomást tesz

   2. (reflexively, as vallja magát, with definite conjugation, law) to plead (innocent or guilty) (used with -nak/-nek)

      A vádlott ártatlannak vallotta magát. ― The defendant pleaded not guilty.

2. (transitive) to declare (e.g. one’s love)

   Synonyms: elmond, kifejez, kinyilvánít

   1. (transitive) to profess, to avow (a belief or faith)
   2. (transitive) to hold (certain views), to advocate (a principle)
   3. (transitive) to acknowledge, to own (a child as one's own) (used with magáénak)
   4. (reflexively, as vallja magát, with definite conjugation) to profess oneself, to identify as something/someone
3. (intransitive) to show, to speak of, to bespeak, to denote, to indicate, to be indicative of (e.g. good or bad taste or personal interests, deducing them from external clues) (used with -ra/-re)

   Synonyms: mutat, jelez, elárul, árulkodik

(With verbal prefixes):

• vall in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

vall (strong)

1. first/third-person singular past indicative of vella

• (Courland) va'llõ

From Proto-Finnic *valadak.

vall

1. pour

From val (“light”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

vall

1. light

vall f

1. valley

vall

1. past of vella

Inherited from Latin vallis.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvall/

vall f (plural valls)

1. (Guardiol) valley

• vath (Gascon)
• vau (Provençal)
• val (Languedoc)

From Old Swedish valder, from Latin vallum (“rampart”).

vall c

1. a bank (long sloping elevation on the ground), often in the form of a wall (cognate) of earth, gravel, or the like, used as a primitive fortification (but also of for example snow), an embankment, an earthwork

• → Finnish: valli

• mur (“free-standing wall”)
• vägg (“wall of a building”)

From Old Norse vǫllr, from Proto-Germanic *walþuz (“forest”).

vall c

1. a field sown with grass, clover, or the like for haymaking or grazing; a hay meadow, a pasture, a field
2. (in some expressions) grazing
3. (often in names) a sports field, a sports ground

• valla

• vall in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• vall in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• vall in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• From Middle English fallen, from Old English feallan, from Proto-West Germanic *fallan.
• From Middle English fal, from Old English feall.

• vale, vole

• IPA^(key): /val/, /vaːl/, /vɔːl/
• Homophone: voal

vall (simple past vele)

1. to fall or begin^[1]

• valleat

vall

1. fall
   • 1927, “ZONG OF TWI MAARKEET MOANS”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 129, lines 9^[2]:

     Zien, "a blaak vall, a blaak vall, Ich meigh vella knew,

     Saying "a black fall, a black fall——I might well have known,

vall

1. alternative form of wul (“wall”)
   • 1927, “PAUDEEN FOUGHLAAN'S WEDDEEN”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 133, lines 17^[2]:

     A vidler hay shudled wi hade to a vall

     The fiddler he staggered with his head to the wall,