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maline

French, noun/ma.lin/

maline is a French feminine noun meaning “spring tide” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Grandes marées qui ont lieu à la nouvelle et à la pleine lune, et dont les plus considérables arrivent aux…”.

What does maline mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininespring tide

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Grandes marées qui ont lieu à la nouvelle et à la pleine lune, et dont les plus considérables arrivent aux équinoxes. On l’emploie surtout au pluriel.

noun: 1. Cachette pratiquée par les Juifs pour échapper aux Nazis pendant l'Holocauste.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of maline

  • malines plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce maline?

  • /ma.lin/
  • \ma.lin\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is maline in French?

maline appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).