Stall

See also: stall and ställ

German

Etymology

From Middle High German stal, from Old High German stal, from Proto-Germanic *stallaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃtal/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -al

Noun

Stall m (strong, genitive Stalles or Stalls, plural Ställe, diminutive Ställchen n)

1. stable, sty, shed, barn (building for keeping animals of all sorts); stall, sty (compartment within such a building); (loosely) pen (small outdoors area for keeping animals, properly Pferch)
2. Ellipsis of Hosenstall (“fly of trousers”)
3. (obsolete) synonym of Stelle, place something is situated, stead (occasionally with implication that something is “standing”, gestellt)
4. (castle studies) ellipsis of Burgstall (“a meagre remainder of a castle less than a ruin”) (originally “the place of a castle”)
5. (archaic or regional) stale, i.e. the urine of horses or their act of urination (so called because they micturate, stallen, while standing, whereas they defecate in locomotion)

Declension

Declension of Stall [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Stall	die	Ställe
genitive	eines	des	Stalles, Stalls	der	Ställe
dative	einem	dem	Stall, Stalle1	den	Ställen
accusative	einen	den	Stall	die	Ställe

¹Now rare, see notes.

Related terms

• Bullenstall
• Gänsestall
• Hühnerstall
• Kuhstall
• Pferdestall
• Rinderstall
• Schafstall
• Schweinestall
• Stallbox
• Stallbursche
• stallen
• Stallknecht
• Stallmeister
• Stalltür
• Viehstall
• Ziegenstall

 

Further reading

• “Stall” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Stall” in Duden online

Hunsrik

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃtal/

Noun

Stall m (plural Stell, diminutive Stellche)

1. pen; stable

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Old High German stal, from Proto-Germanic *stallaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃtɑl/
• Rhymes: -ɑl

Noun

Stall m (plural Ställ)

1. stable