My last name starts with “Mal”. I wrote it on my sandwich bag in the company fridge. A co-worker told me “mal” means “bad” in spanish. Cool.
Here’s how other languages translate “mal”. There’s quite a range.
- Afrikaans mold
- Albanian mountain
- Azerbaijani beef
- Catalan bad
- Dutch mold
- Filipino kapok
- French evil
- Galician evil
- German times
- Haitian evil
- Italian ache
- Maltese with
- Norwegian template
- Portuguese evil
- Romanian shore
- Slovak had
- Spanish wrong
- Swedish moth?
- Turkish goods
- Welsh blaze?