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mahal

nounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//məˈhɑːl//
  • //məˈhəl//
  • /[mɛ.ɦɛl]/

A summerhouse.

noun

  1. 1

    A summerhouse.

  2. 2

    Private lodgings.

  3. 3

    historicalA territorial division of pre-independence India.

  4. 4

    A division of a farm.

  5. 5

    A division of a hunting preserve.

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi महल (mahal), from Arabic مَحَلّ (maḥall, “place”).

Forms

plural
mahals
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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