malleable

See also: malléable

English

Etymology

From Middle French malléable, borrowed from Late Latin malleābilis, derived from malleāre (“to hammer”), from malleus (“hammer”), from Proto-Indo-European *mal-ni- (“crushing”), an extended variant of Proto-Indo-European *melH₂- (“crush, grind”).

Pronunciation

(US) IPA^(key): /ˈmæli.əbəl/
Audio (US) (file)
Hyphenation: mal‧le‧a‧ble

Adjective

malleable (comparative more malleable, superlative most malleable)

Able to be hammered into thin sheets; capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers.
(figuratively) Flexible, liable to change.
My opinion on the subject is malleable.
(cryptography, of an algorithm) in which an adversary can alter a ciphertext such that it decrypts to a related plaintext

Coordinate terms

ductile

Related terms

malleability
malleableness
malleably
malleate

Translations

able to be hammered into thin sheets

Bulgarian: ковък (bg) (kovǎk)
Catalan: mal·leable
Chinese:
Mandarin: 可锻造的
Czech: kujný (cs)
Dutch: hamerbaar, smeedbaar (nl)
Finnish: taottava (fi)
French: malléable (fr)
German: hämmerbar, schmiedbar (de), formbar, verformbar (de), dehnbar (de), plastisch (de), biegsam (de), biegbar, weich (de), geschmeidig (de), veränderbar (de), gestaltbar, knetbar
Hungarian: nyújtható
Italian: malleabile (it)

Maori: māngohe
Norwegian: bøyelig (no), fleksibel, smidig (no)
Persian: چکش خور‎ (chakosh khor)
Polish: kowalny m, kujny (pl) m
Portuguese: maleável (pt)
Romanian: maleabil (ro)
Russian: ко́вкий (ru) (kóvkij), пластичный (ru) (plastičnyj)
Slovak: kujný
Spanish: maleable
Swedish: smidbar (sv)
Tagalog: pukpukin

liable to change

Czech: měnitelný m, poddajný (cs) m, tvarovatelný m, tvárný m
Dutch: kneedbaar (nl)
Esperanto: ŝanĝebla
Finnish: mukautuvainen
German: veränderlich (de), flexibel (de), formbar, dehnbar (de), beeinflußbar (de)
Hungarian: képlékeny (hu)
Italian: malleabile (it), forgiabile (it)

Manx: so-lhoobagh, so-chummeydagh
Norwegian: fleksibel, smidig (no)
Persian: قابل انعطاف‎ (fa) (ghabel-e en'etaf), انعطاف پذیر‎ (en'etaf pazir)
Polish: podatny (pl) m
Portuguese: maleável (pt)
Romanian: maleabil (ro)
Russian: пода́тливый (ru) (podátlivyj), восприимчивый (ru) (vospriimčivyj)

References

malleable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.