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Mahalo vs Mahal - What's the difference?

mahalo | mahal |

As an interjection mahalo

is thank you.

As a noun mahal is

a summer house.

As a proper noun Mahal is

the Dhivehi language.

mahalo

English

Interjection

(en interjection)
  • (Hawaiian English) thank you.

    • Usage notes

    The word is widely used in public notices in Hawaii, most visibly on trash cans, leading some to infer the meaning as "trash can".

    References

    * Hawaiian Words, accessed on 2005-05-25 English terms derived from Hawaiian ----

    mahal

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a summer house
  • private lodgings
  • a territorial division of pre-independence India
  • a division of a farm
  • a division of a hunting preserve

    • Anagrams

    * ----