noun, feminine/mal/plural: malles
large suitcase; trunk
“Sors tes habits de la malle et range-les dans l'armoire !” — Take your clothes out of the suitcase and put them away in the cupboard!
Related: mallette, se faire la malle
Inherited from Middle French malle, from Old French male (“leather bag, leather or wooden travel-case”), from Frankish *malha (“leather bag”), from Proto-Germanic *malhō (“leather bag”), from Proto-Indo-European *molko- (“leather bag”). Cognate with Old High German malha, malaha (“leather bag”), Middle Dutch male (“trunk, travel bag”). More at mail.