malax

malax (third-person singular simple present malaxes, present participle malaxing, simple past and past participle malaxed)

1. To malaxate.

• xalam

• alamax, palamax

Borrowed from Spanish palomas (“doves”), plural of paloma (“dove”). C.f. Spanish palomilla (“moth”).

malax

1. butterfly, moth

• bʼalam malax, bʼalamax

• Brown, R. McKenna; Maxwell, Judith M.; Little, Walter E. (2006), ¿La ütz awäch? Introduction to Kaqchikel Maya Language, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 230
• Ruyán Canú, Déborah; Coyote Tum, Rafael; Munson L., Jo Ann (1991), Diccionario cakchiquel central y español‎^[1] (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano de Centroamérica, page 6

From Proto-East Cushitic *malħ- (“pus”). Compare Egyptian mnḥ (“beewax”) (whence Bohairic Coptic ⲙⲟⲩⲗϩ (moulh)).

Cognate with Jiiddu melé. Oromo malaa, Hadiyya mara, Yaaku mileh.

• IPA^(key): /mɑ̀ˈlɑ́ħ/

maláx f

1. pus