hall

See also: háll, håll, Hall, häll, and Häll

English

Etymology

From Middle English halle, from Old English heall (“hall, dwelling, house; palace, temple; law-court”), from Proto-Germanic *hallō (“hall”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to hide, conceal”). Cognate with Scots hall, haw (“hall”), Dutch hal (“hall”), German Halle (“hall”), Norwegian hall (“hall”), Swedish hall (“hall”), Icelandic höll (“palace”), Latin cella (“room, cell”), Sanskrit शाला (śā́lā, “house, mansion, hall”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /hɔːl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /hɔl/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /hɑl/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɔːl
• Homophone: haul

Noun

hall (plural halls)

1. A corridor; a hallway.

   The drinking fountain was out in the hall.

   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 13, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time.

2. A meeting room.

   The hotel had three halls for conferences, and two were in use by the convention.

3. A manor house (originally because a magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion).

   The duke lived in a great hall overlooking the sea.

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4. A building providing student accommodation at a university.

   The student government hosted several social events so that students from different halls would intermingle.

5. The principal room of a secular medieval building.
6. (obsolete) Cleared passageway through a crowd, as for dancing.
   • 1633, Ben Jonson, A Tale of a Tub

     Then cry, a hall, a hall! Come, father Rosin, with your fiddle now.

7. A place for special professional education, or for conferring professional degrees or licences.

   a Divinity Hall; Apothecaries' Hall

8. (India) A living room.

Derived terms

• BHK
• booking hall
• city hall
• Forest Hall
• great hall
• Hall Green
• hall monitor
• hall of fame
• hall of shame
• hall pass
• hallway
• Hams Hall
• Lea Hall
• Lostock Hall
• Meadowhall
• Midge Hall
• Newton Hall
• Northop Hall
• Park Hall
• Scale Hall
• sports hall
• ticket hall
• town hall
• village hall

 

Descendants

• → Japanese: ホール (hōru)
• → Russian: холл (xoll)

Translations

corridor or a hallway

• Armenian: միջանցք (hy) (miǰancʿkʿ)
• Belarusian: пярэ́дні пако́й m (pjarédni pakój)
• Bulgarian: вестибюл (bg) m (vestibjul)
• Catalan: corredor (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 走廊 (zh) (zǒuláng)

• Czech: chodba (cs) f, ulička (cs) f
• Dutch: hal (nl) m, gang (nl) m
• Finnish: käytävä (fi), eteinen (fi)
• French: couloir (fr) m, corridor (fr) m
• German: Flur (de) m, Korridor (de) m, Diele (de) f
• Greek: χολ (el) n (chol), διάδρομος (el) (diádromos) (formally)
• Irish: halla m
• Italian: corridoio (it) m

• Japanese: 玄関 (ja) (げんかん, genkan), 廊下 (ja) (ろうか, rōka)
• Korean: 회관 (ko) (hoegwan)
• Latin: auditorium
• Persian: هال‎ (fa) (hâl), تالار‎ (fa) (tâlâr)
• Polish: hol (pl) m, przedpokój (pl) m, sala (pl) f
• Portuguese: corredor (pt) m
• Russian: коридо́р (ru) m (koridór), приёмная (ru) f (prijómnaja), вестибю́ль (ru) m (vestibjúlʹ), фойе́ (ru) n (fojé), холл (ru) m (xoll)
• Slovak: chodba f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: wjaža f

• Spanish: pasillo (es) m
• Turkish: koridor (tr), hol (tr)
• Walloon: poice (wa) m, colidôr (wa) m

meeting room

• Albanian: sallë (sq) f
• Arabic: قَاعَة‎ f (qāʿa), صَالَة‎ f (ṣāla)
• Armenian: սրահ (hy) (srah), դահլիճ (hy) (dahlič)
• Azerbaijani: zal (az)
• Belarusian: за́ла f (zála)
• Bulgarian: за́ла (bg) f (zála), аула (bg) f (aula)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 大廳 (zh), 大厅 (zh) (dàtīng), 廳堂 (zh), 厅堂 (zh) (tīngtáng), 會堂 (zh), 会堂 (zh) (huìtáng)

• Danish: sal (da) c
• Dutch: zaal (nl) m
• Esperanto: halo (eo) sg
• Finnish: sali (fi)
• French: salle (fr) f, salon (fr) m
• Georgian: დარბაზი (ka) (darbazi), ზალა (ka) (zala)
• German: Halle (de) f, Saal (de) m, Aula (de) m
• Greek: αίθουσα (el) f (aíthousa)
• Hungarian: terem (hu)
• Icelandic: salur m
• Irish: halla m
• Italian: sala (it) f

• Japanese: ホール (ja) m (hōru)
• Kazakh: зал (zal)
• Korean: 홀 (ko) (hol)
• Kyrgyz: зал (ky) (zal)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sal (no) m

• Persian: سالن‎ (fa) (sâlon), تالار‎ (fa) (tâlâr)
• Plautdietsch: Haul f
• Polish: sala (pl) f
• Portuguese: salão (pt) m
• Romanian: sală (ro) f
• Russian: зал (ru) m (zal), за́ла (ru) f (zála) (dated)
• Spanish: salón (es) m, vestibulo m
• Swedish: sal (sv) c
• Tagalog: bulwagan
• Tajik: толор (tg) (tolor), зал (zal)
• Turkish: salon (tr)
• Ukrainian: зал m (zal)
• Uzbek: zal (uz)
• Vietnamese: phòng (vi)

manor house

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 甲第 (zh) (jiǎdì)

• Dutch: villa (nl) f, herenhuis (nl) n
• Finnish: kartano (fi)
• French: manoir (fr) m

• German: Herrenhaus (de) n
• Greek: μέγαρο (el) n (mégaro)
• Irish: teach mór m
• Polish: rezydencja (pl) f
• Russian: уса́дьба (ru) f (usádʹba), поме́стье (ru) n (poméstʹje)

building providing student accommodation

• Dutch: studentenflat (nl) m
• Finnish: asuntola (fi)
• French: foyer (fr) m, résidence universitaire (fr) f

• German: Studentenwohnheim (de) n
• Greek: φοιτητική εστία f (foititikí estía)
• Hungarian: kollégium (hu)
• Welsh: neuadd (cy)

principal room of a secular medieval building

• Armenian: սրահ (hy) (srah)
• Dutch: zaal (nl) m
• Finnish: sali (fi)
• French: salle (fr) f

• German: Saal (de) m, Halle (de) f
• Portuguese: saguão (pt) m
• Russian: зал (ru) m (zal), за́ла (ru) f (zála) (dated)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} hall (fr) m
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 강당 (ko) (gangdang)}

• Norman: ^{(please verify)} allée f (Jersey)
• Old Norse: ^{(please verify)} hǫll f (1)

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Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)kel- (compare English shallow, Middle High German hel (“tired, weak”), Ancient Greek σκέλλω (skéllō, “to dry up”), σκληρός (sklērós, “hard, harsh”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /haɫ/

Noun

hall m (indefinite plural halle, definite singular halli, definite plural hallet)

1. trouble

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Chinese

Etymology

From English hall.

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ho¹

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: ho¹
    • Yale: hō
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ho¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ho¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɔː⁵⁵/

Noun

hall

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) assembly hall; auditorium
2. (Hong Kong Cantonese) residence hall; dormitory

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Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English hall. Doublet of hal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [hɒːl]

Noun

hall c (singular definite hallen, plural indefinite haller)

1. hall (a corridor or a hallway)

Inflection

Declension of hall

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	hall	hallen	haller	hallerne
genitive	halls	hallens	hallers	hallernes

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Estonian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *halla, from pre-Finnic *šalna, from Proto-Balto-Slavic [Term?]. Compare Latvian salna, Lithuanian šalna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɑlː/

Noun

hall (genitive halla, partitive halla)

1. frost

Declension

Declension of hall (type õrn)

	singular	plural
nominative	hall	hallad
genitive	halla	hallade
partitive	halla	hallu / hallasid
illative	halla / hallasse	halladesse
inessive	hallas	hallades
elative	hallast	halladest
allative	hallale	halladele
adessive	hallal	halladel
ablative	hallalt	halladelt
translative	hallaks	halladeks
terminative	hallani	halladeni
essive	hallana	halladena
abessive	hallata	halladeta
comitative	hallaga	halladega

Etymology 2

From Proto-Finnic *halli (compare Finnish halli), from Balto-Slavic. Compare Latvian salnis, Lithuanian šalnis (“off-white, roan”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɑlʲː/

Adjective

hall (genitive halli, partitive halli)

1. grey (color)

Declension

Declension of hall (type riik)

	singular	plural
nominative	hall	hallid
genitive	halli	hallide
partitive	halli	halle / hallisid
illative	halli / hallisse	hallidesse
inessive	hallis	hallides
elative	hallist	hallidest
allative	hallile	hallidele
adessive	hallil	hallidel
ablative	hallilt	hallidelt
translative	halliks	hallideks
terminative	hallini	hallideni
essive	hallina	hallidena
abessive	hallita	hallideta
comitative	halliga	hallidega

Derived terms

• hallitama

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɑlʲː/

Noun

hall (genitive halli, partitive halli)

1. hall (large room or building)

Declension

Declension of hall (type riik)

	singular	plural
nominative	hall	hallid
genitive	halli	hallide
partitive	halli	halle / hallisid
illative	halli / hallisse	hallidesse
inessive	hallis	hallides
elative	hallist	hallidest
allative	hallile	hallidele
adessive	hallil	hallidel
ablative	hallilt	hallidelt
translative	halliks	hallideks
terminative	hallini	hallideni
essive	hallina	hallidena
abessive	hallita	hallideta
comitative	halliga	hallidega

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from English hall.

Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /ol/

• Audio

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Noun

hall m (plural halls)

1. hall
   • 2018 July 6, Elh Kmer (lyrics), “Bonaparte”, in Antidote:

     Les keufs barodent
     Parce qu’ils barodent, j’suis caché dans l’hall

     The pigs walk around
     And because they walk around I am hidden in the hall

2. lobby

Further reading

• “hall” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hal/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -al

Verb

hall

1. singular imperative of hallen
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of hallen

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈhɒlː]

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ɒlː

Etymology 1

From the conflation of Proto-Uralic *kontale- (compare Old Hungarian hadl (“hear”), Mansi хӯнтли (hūntli), Finnish kuunnella) and Proto-Uralic *kule- (compare Mansi хӯлуӈкве (hūluňkve) and Finnish kuulla).

Verb

hall

2. (intransitive) to hear (to perceive sounds through the ear)
3. (transitive) to hear (to perceive with the ear)

   Hallottam egy hangot a szobából. ― I heard a sound from the room.

Usage notes

This verb is a member of one of those (few) quasi-homonymous verb pairs that exist both with and without an -ik ending. All (intransitive) suffixed forms of these pairs are identical (sometimes they can even have derived forms that coincide), with the exception of their dictionary form (the third-person singular indicative present, with or without -ik). However, the meaning of these pairs is usually distinct, sometimes unrelated. Examples include (fel)áldoz–(le)áldozik, bán–bánik, (meg)bíz–(meg)bízik, ér–érik, esz (rare)–eszik, hajol–hajlik, (felül)múl–(el)múlik, (hozzá)nyúl–nyúlik, (el)vesz–(el)veszik~(el)vész, and tör–törik (along with their verbal prefixes), hall–hallik (archaic), érez–érzik (archaic), sometimes with some difference: (el)hibáz–hibádzik, (le)torkol–torkollik. Therefore one may well need to check the context and the arguments to ascertain which member of the verb pair is relevant.

Conjugation

conjugation of hall

			1st person sg	2nd person sg informal	3rd person sg, 2nd p. sg formal	1st person pl	2nd person pl informal	3rd person pl, 2nd p. pl formal
Indica­tive mood	Pre­sent	Indef.	hallok	hallasz	hall	hallunk	hallotok	hallanak
		Def.	hallom	hallod	hallja	halljuk	halljátok	hallják
		2nd-p. o.	hallak	―
	Past	Indef.	hallottam	hallottál	hallott	hallottunk	hallottatok	hallottak
		Def.	hallottam	hallottad	hallotta	hallottuk	hallottátok	hallották
		2nd-p. o.	hallottalak	―
Condi­tional mood	Pre­sent	Indef.	hallanék	hallanál	hallana	hallanánk	hallanátok	hallanának
		Def.	hallanám	hallanád	hallaná	hallanánk	hallanátok	hallanák
		2nd-p. o.	hallanálak	―
Sub­junc­tive mood	Pre­sent	Indef.	halljak	hallj or halljál	halljon	halljunk	halljatok	halljanak
		Def.	halljam	halld or halljad	hallja	halljuk	halljátok	hallják
		2nd-p. o.	halljalak	―
Infinitive	hallani		hallanom	hallanod	hallania	hallanunk	hallanotok	hallaniuk
Other nonfinite verb forms			Verbal noun	Present participle	Past participle	Future part.	Adverbial part.	Potential
			hallás	halló	hallott	hallandó	hallva	hallhat

Derived terms

• hallatszik
• hallgat
• hallható
• hallomás

 

(With verbal prefixes):

• áthall
• belehall
• keresztülhall
• kihall
• meghall

Expressions

• se lát, se hall

 

Etymology 2

Borrowed from German Halle.

Noun

hall (plural hallok)

2. middle-sized, windowless room, entryway, hallway (in a private flat/apartment, with a size not smaller than 8 m² [86 sq ft], with space for people, but without affording them privacy due to its being an entry to other rooms)

   Synonym: előtér

   Coordinate terms: szoba, helyiség, félszoba, alkóv, gardrób, előszoba, hálószoba, nappali

3. lobby, foyer, lounge (e.g. in a hotel or an opera house)

   Synonyms: társalgó, előcsarnok

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	hall	hallok
accusative	hallt	hallokat
dative	hallnak	halloknak
instrumental	hallal	hallokkal
causal-final	hallért	hallokért
translative	hallá	hallokká
terminative	hallig	hallokig
essive-formal	hallként	hallokként
essive-modal	hallul	hallokul
inessive	hallban	hallokban
superessive	hallon	hallokon
adessive	hallnál	halloknál
illative	hallba	hallokba
sublative	hallra	hallokra
allative	hallhoz	hallokhoz
elative	hallból	hallokból
delative	hallról	hallokról
ablative	halltól	halloktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	hallé	halloké
non-attributive possessive - plural	halléi	hallokéi

Possessive forms of hall
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	hallom	halljaim
2nd person sing.	hallod	halljaid
3rd person sing.	hallja	halljai
1st person plural	hallunk	halljaink
2nd person plural	hallotok	halljaitok
3rd person plural	halljuk	halljaik

Derived terms

• hallos

 

Compound words

• egyszoba-hallos
• kétszoba-hallos
• háromszoba-hallos

 

Further reading

• (to hear): hall in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• (entryway): hall in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

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Ludian

Etymology

Akin to Finnish halla.

Noun

hall

1. frost

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse hǫll.

Noun

hall m (definite singular hallen, indefinite plural haller, definite plural hallene)

1. a hall (a building or very large room)

Derived terms

• idrettshall
• ishall
• svømmehall

References

• “hall” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɑlː/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hǫll. Akin to English hall.

Noun

hall m (definite singular hallen, indefinite plural hallar, definite plural hallane)
or
hall f (definite singular halla, indefinite plural haller, definite plural hallene)

1. a hall (a building or very large room)

Derived terms

• idrettshall
• ishall
• svømmehall, symjehall

Etymology 2

From Old Norse hallr.

Noun

hall n (definite singular hallet, indefinite plural hall, definite plural halla)

1. a slope, sloping terrain

Derived terms

• bakhall
• grashall

References

• “hall” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English hall.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈhɔw/

Noun

hall m (plural halls)

1. (architecture) lobby; entrance hall (room in a building used for entry from the outside)

Derived terms

• hall da fama

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Spanish

Etymology

From English hall.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxol/, [ˈxol]

Noun

hall m (plural halls)

1. hall, lobby, lounge

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Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse hǫll, from Proto-Germanic *hallō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel-. Compare English hall. Related to Latin cella and English cellar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hal/

• audio

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Noun

hall c

1. a hallway
2. a lounge
3. a corridor
4. an entryway
5. short for any of the words:

   • simhall
   • ishall
   • sporthall
   • verkstadshall
   • mässhall

Declension

Declension of hall
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	hall	hallen	hallar	hallarna
Genitive	halls	hallens	hallars	hallarnas

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Westrobothnian

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hallr. Cognate with Icelandic hallur.

Adjective

hall

1. sloping, inclined, oblique

Derived terms

• hallfata
• hallläst
• hallsätt

 

Etymology 2

From Old Norse hǫll, from Proto-Germanic *hallō

Noun

hall f

1. area where no particularly large forest exist