Bad.
"j'ai mal à la [xxxx] = my [body part] aches
It means bad.
The prefix mal means bad or evil.
speak evil of them
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!"
Mal.
The Latin root mal means bad or evil. Doctors make use of the root mal to deal with all kinds of problems. An example is the word malfunction.
mal = bad
it means,bad.
The prefix in the word maladjusted is mal-. This prefix means bad.
In the word "animal," the stress is on the first syllable, which is pronounced as "AN." The word is phonetically broken down as "AN-i-mal," with the emphasis clearly on the "AN" part.
Mal means bad, or badly.