vall

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈbaʎ]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencian) [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, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “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 Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: 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

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 about for example snow), an embankment, an earthwork

• → Finnish: valli

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

vall c

1. a grassy field, a pasture, a grazing field, a field sown with grass (for hay)

• valla

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

• 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): /vaɫ/, /vɔːɫ/
• Homophone: voal

vall (simple past vell or vele)

1. to fall or begin[1]

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,