"j'ai mal à la [xxxx] = my [body part] aches
The prefix mal means bad or evil.
It means bad.
Mal means times, as in "three times a day" or "two times two is four" It can also mean Meal, but then it would be with a capital "M". It is sometimes part of a phrase like "warte mal" - "wait a bit" or "schau mal!" - "just look!"
speak evil of them
Mal.
mal = bad
it means,bad.
The prefix in the word maladjusted is mal-. This prefix means bad.
Mal means bad, or badly.
The prefix 'mal' means 'bad' in Greek. the word 'func' means 'to work' and the 'tion' suffix means 'a state of'. In this case, the word 'malfunction' literally means 'a state of working badly'.
Mal voisin means bad neighbour