Stall

See also: stall and ställ

German

Etymology

From Middle High German stal, from Old High German stal, from Proto-Germanic *stallaz.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ʃtal/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -al

Noun

Stall m (strong, genitive Stalles or Stalls, plural Ställe, diminutive Ställchen n)

  1. stable, sty, shed, barn (building for keeping animals of all sorts); stall, sty (compartment within such a building); (loosely) pen (small outdoors area for keeping animals, properly Pferch)
  2. Ellipsis of Hosenstall (“fly of trousers”)
  3. (obsolete) synonym of Stelle, place something is situated, stead (occasionally with implication that something is “standing”, gestellt)
  4. (castle studies) ellipsis of Burgstall (“a meagre remainder of a castle less than a ruin”) (originally “the place of a castle”)
  5. (archaic or regional) stale, i.e. the urine of horses or their act of urination (so called because they micturate, stallen, while standing, whereas they defecate in locomotion)

Declension
Declension of Stall [masculine, strong]
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative ein der Stall die Ställe
genitive eines des Stalles, Stalls der Ställe
dative einem dem Stall, Stalle1 den Ställen
accusative einen den Stall die Ställe

1Now rare, see notes.

Further reading
  • “Stall” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • “Stall” in Duden online

Hunsrik

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ʃtal/

Noun

Stall m (plural Stell, diminutive Stellche)

  1. pen; stable

Further reading

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Old High German stal, from Proto-Germanic *stallaz.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ʃtɑl/
  • Rhymes: -ɑl

Noun

Stall m (plural Ställ)

  1. stable
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