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Malley¹

Where it comes from

* As an Irish surname, shortened form of O'Malley.

* As an English surname of Norman origin, from several places in France named Mailly, from Latin Mallius, a nomen.

* As a Carpathian Rusyn surname, Americanized from Mlej; see Malay. Similar Slavic variants exist such as Polish Mały, Czech and Slovak Malý, Slovene Malý; see Maly.

* Also as a Slovene and Slovak surname, from Malej; see Maley.

proper noun Malleys · Maley · Mally · Mealey · Mealy

  1. A surname from Irish.

malley²

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Hindi माली (mālī).

noun malleys · mali · mallee · molly

  1. India, obsolete A gardener. […] not one-third of the work was done under the direction of the Garden Purvoe and Head Malley only, […]

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@misc{malley_2026,
  title = {malley},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/malley},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}