Malul

Malul is a Romanian noun meaning the bank or shore of a body of water, such as a river, lake, or sea. It refers to the edge or embankment adjacent to water and is used in geographic, nautical, and everyday language. The word is used with the definite article, forming malul, meaning “the bank” (for example, malul râului, the riverbank; malul mării, the seashore). In addition to natural shores, malul can denote artificial embankments or levees in civil engineering contexts.

In Romanian grammar, mal is the root word, with the definite article suffixed to form malul. The plural form is maluri, and the definite plural is malurile. The term is common in descriptions of landscapes, transport routes along rivers or coasts, and in literature as a setting or metaphor for boundary and transition.

Beyond its primary geographical sense, malul may appear as a surname or as part of place names in Romanian-speaking areas. It is not widely used as a term in languages outside Romanian, though cognate words with unrelated meanings may exist in other languages.