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male

See also: Male, malé, Malé, mâle, malë, måle, małe, málé, and mäle

male - English

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) enPR: māl, IPA: /meɪl/
  • Homophone: mail

Adjective

male (not generally comparable, comparative maler or more male, superlative malest or most male)

  1. Belonging to the sex which typically produces sperm, or to the gender which is typically associated with it.
    • male writers
    • the leading male and female singers
    • a male bird feeding a seed to a female
    • in bee colonies, all drones are male
    • intersex male patients
  2. Characteristic of this sex/gender. (Compare masculine, manly.)
    • stereotypically male interests, an insect with typically male coloration
  3. Tending to lead to or regulate the development of sexual characteristics typical of this sex.
    • the male chromosome;   like testes, ovaries also produce testosterone and some other male hormones
  4. (grammar, less common than 'masculine') Masculine; of the masculine grammatical gender.
  5. (of bacteria) Having the F factor; able to impart DNA into another bacterium which does not have the F factor (a female).
  6. (figuratively) Of instruments, tools, or connectors: designed to fit into or penetrate a female counterpart, as in a connector, pipe fitting or laboratory glassware.

Synonyms

Coordinate terms

Translations

Noun

male (plural males)

  1. One of the male (masculine) sex or gender.
    1. A human member of the masculine sex or gender.
    2. An animal of the sex that has testes.
    3. A plant of the masculine sex.
  2. A bacterium which has the F factor.
  3. A male connector, pipe fitting, etc.

Usage notes

Similar to objections over the usage of female(s) as a noun, some people find it dehumanizing to refer to men as "male(s)" due to its zoological use, especially in non-technical contexts. It is frequently used in police blotters, dispatches, reports, and medical or physiological documents to encompass boys and men, further fueling aversion through this association with criminality and/or vice.

Antonyms

Hyponyms

Translations

  • Arabic: ذَكَر‎ (ar) m (ḏakar)
    • Egyptian Arabic: ذكر‎ m (dakar or zakar or ðakar)
  • Bulgarian: (doesn't exist)
  • Czech: samec (cs) m
  • Danish: hanplante c
  • Dutch: mannetje (nl) n, mannetjesplant m or f
  • Finnish: koiras (fi)
  • Greek: αρσενικός (el) (arsenikós)
  • Hebrew: זכר \ זָכָר‎ (he) m (zakhár)
  • Hungarian: hím (hu)
  • Indonesian: jantan (id)
  • Kazakh: еркек (kk) (erkek)
  • Kurdish:
    • Central Kurdish: نێر‎ (ckb) (nêr)
    • Northern Kurdish: nêr (ku)
  • Malay:
  • Norwegian:
    • Bokmål: hannplante m or f
    • Nynorsk: hannplante m or f
  • Portuguese: planta-pai f
  • Scottish Gaelic: fireannach m
  • Swedish: hanplante c, hanväxt c
  • Turkish: erkek (tr)
  • Volapük: hiplan

Derived terms

terms derived from adjective or noun

Anagrams

male - Afar

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mʌˈle/
  • Hyphenation: ma‧le

Particle

malé

  1. Alternative form of maléey

male - Danish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈmaːlə/, [ˈmɛːlə]

Verb

male (imperative mal, present maler, past malede or malte, past participle malet or malt)

  1. To paint.

Derived terms

Verb

male (imperative mal, infinitive at male, present tense maler, past tense malede, perfect tense er/har malet)

  1. To grind, mill.

Derived terms

male - Dutch

Noun

male

  1. (archaic) Dative singular form of maal

Verb

male

  1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of malen

male - Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [ˈmale]
  • Hyphenation: ma‧le

Adverb

male

  1. on the contrary
  2. opposingly; in opposition
    • male ol... ― as opposed to...

male - Estonian

Noun

male (genitive male, partitive malet)

  1. (board games) chess

Declension

singular plural
nominative male maled
accusative male maled
genitive male malede
partitive malet malesid
illative malle malesse maledesse
inessive males maledes
elative malest maledest
allative malele maledele
adessive malel maledel
ablative malelt maledelt
translative maleks maledeks
terminative maleni maledeni
essive malena maledena
abessive maleta maledeta
comitative malega maledega

male - German

Verb

male

  1. inflection of malen:
    1. first-person singular present
    2. singular imperative
    3. first/third-person singular subjunctive I

male - Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈma.le/
  • Hyphenation: mà‧le

Adverb

male (comparative peggio, superlative malissimo)

  1. badly, wrongly

Noun

male m (plural mali)

  1. evil, harm
  2. pain, ache, illness, sickness, disease

Antonyms

Derived terms

Adjective

male

  1. (archaic) feminine plural of malo (“bad”)

Anagrams

male - Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA: /ˈma.le/, [ˈmäɫ̪ɛ]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈma.le/, [ˈmäːle]

Adverb

male (comparative pēius, superlative pessimē)

  1. badly
  2. wrongly
  3. cruelly, wickedly
  4. not much; feebly

Derived terms

Descendants

male - Limburgish

Alternative forms

  • maale (Eupen, Krefeld)
    • mooehle (Krefeld)
    • maole (Maastricht)

Verb

male

  1. To mill.

Conjugation

non-finite forms infinitive gerund present participle past participle adjective adverb
(tö) male 't male n malendj höbbe gemale gemaledje, gemaledjer, gemaledjes gemaledj, gemaledjelik
number & tense verb-second order verb-first order
present past subjunctive present past subjunctive
first person singular male maledje male male maledje-n male-n
second person singular males maledjes male males maledjes maler
third person singular maletj maledje male maletj'r maledje maler
first person plural male maledje male maletj maledje male
second person plural maletj maledje male maletj maledje maletj
third person plural male maledje male male maledje maler
other forms noun imperative singular impolite imperative singular polite imperative dual imperative plural inclusive
't gemale n male! maletj! maletj, maletj! maletj! malem

male - Middle English

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈmaːl(ə)/, /ˈmaːdlə/, /ˈmaːdəl/

Noun

male (plural males)

  1. A man; a male human or animal.
  2. (rare) A "male" gem or plant.
  3. (rare) Manhood; the state of being male.

Descendants

Adjective

male

  1. male (of masculine sex or gender)
  2. Used in extended reference to supposedly "male" gems, plants, or astrological portents.

Descendants

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈmaːl(ə)/

Noun

male (plural males)

  1. A bag, pack, or wallet.
  2. The belly or one of its contents; a gut.

Descendants

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /maːl/

Noun

male

  1. (chiefly Late Middle English, uncommon) The appletree (Malus domestica) or its fruit.

Noun

male

  1. Alternative form of mayle

Noun

male

  1. (Northern) Alternative form of mel

male - Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

male (imperative mal, present tense maler, passive males, simple past malte, past participle malt, present participle malende)

  1. To paint.

Verb

male (imperative mal, present tense maler, passive males, simple past mol or malte, past participle malt, present participle malende)

  1. To grind or mill (to make smaller by breaking with a device).
  2. To purr (of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in its throat when contented)

Derived terms

male - Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

male (present tense mel, past tense mol, supine male, past participle malen, present participle malande, imperative mal)

  1. Alternative form of mala

Verb

male (present tense malar, past tense mala, past participle mala, passive infinitive malast, present participle malande, imperative male/mal)

  1. (pre-2012) alternative form of måle, to paint.

male - Old French

Alternative forms

Noun

male f (oblique plural males, nominative singular male, nominative plural males)

  1. pack, bag

Descendants

male - Pali

Alternative forms

  • 𑀫𑀮𑁂 (Brahmi script)
  • मले (Devanagari script)
  • মলে (Bengali script)
  • මලෙ (Sinhalese script)
  • မလေ (Burmese script)
  • มเล or มะเล (Thai script)
  • ᨾᩃᩮ (Tai Tham script)
  • ມເລ or ມະເລ (Lao script)
  • មលេ (Khmer script)
  • 𑄟𑄣𑄬 (Chakma script)

Noun

male

  1. locative singular of mala (“dirt”)

male - Sardinian

Adverb

male

  1. badly

male - Serbo-Croatian

Adjective

male

  1. inflection of mal:
    1. masculine accusative plural
    2. feminine genitive singular
    3. feminine nominative/accusative/vocative plural

male - Toba Batak

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [maˈlɛ]

Adjective

male

  1. hungry
Meaning and Definition of male
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