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maali

Pronunciation: /ˈmɑːli/

“maali” is a Finnish word. Its 9 meanings in English:

noun

  1. paint
  2. target
  3. bogey (enemy aircraft)
  4. goal, aim, end
  5. goal
  6. finish (the location where a race ends)
  7. popinjay (target to shoot at, typically stuffed with feathers or plumage)
  8. ending (one of the different endings for a repeated section)
  9. touchdown

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Swedish māl (“paint”), from māla (“to paint”), itself borrowed from Middle Low German mâlen (“to paint”), from Proto-Germanic *mēlijaną (“to mark, stain, paint”).

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