malt

See also: MALT, målt, malț, and Mal't

English

Etymology

From Middle English malt, from Old English mealt, from Proto-West Germanic *malt, from Proto-Germanic *maltą (“malt”), from *maltaz (“soft; nesh; weak; squashy; melting”), from Proto-Indo-European *meld-, *mled- (“to crush; grind; make weak”).

Cognate with Saterland Frisian Moalt (“malt”), Dutch mout (“malt”), German Malz (“malt”), Swedish malt (“malt”), Old Church Slavonic младъ (mladŭ, “tender; young”), Russian молодой (molodoj, “young; fresh; new”). The Proto-Germanic noun was borrowed into Proto-Slavic as *malta; compare Ukrainian мо́лот (mólot), Czech mláto. More at melt.

Pronunciation

(US) IPA^(key): /mɑlt/, /mɔlt/
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -ɔːlt

Noun

malt (countable and uncountable, plural malts)

Malted grain (sprouted grain) (usually barley), used in brewing and otherwise.
Malt liquor, especially malt whisky.
- 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, LXII:
  Oh many a peer of England brews
  Livelier liquor than the Muse,
  And malt does more than Milton can
  To justify God's ways to man.
(US, informal) A milkshake with malted milk powder added for flavor.
- 1992, Toni Morrison, Jazz, Vintage (2016), page 89:
  Afterward she sat in the drugstore sucking malt through a straw.
Synonym: malted
Maltose-rich sugar derived from malted grain.

Derived terms

double malt
malt-kiln
malt liquor
maltose
malty
single malt
triple malt

Translations

sprouted grain used in brewing

Arabic: مَلْت‎ (ar) m (malt)
Armenian: ածիկ (hy) (acik)
Belarusian: со́лад m (sólad)
Bulgarian: слад m (slad), малц m (malc)
Catalan: malt (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 麥芽／麦芽 (zh) (màiyá)
Czech: slad (cs) m
Danish: malt c or n
Dutch: mout (nl) m or n
Estonian: linnas (et)
Finnish: mallas (fi)
French: malt (fr) m
Galician: malte (gl) m
Georgian: ალაო (alao)
German: Malz (de) n
Greek: βύνη (el) f (výni)
Ancient Greek: βύνη f (búnē)
Hebrew: לֶתֶת‎ (he) (létet)
Hungarian: maláta (hu)
Irish: braich f
Italian: malto (it) m
Japanese: 麦芽 (ja) (ばくが, bakuga)
Korean: 엿기름 (ko) (yeotgireum)
Latvian: iesals m
Lithuanian: salyklas m
Macedonian: слад m (slad)
Malay: malta
Maori: morota
Norwegian:
Bokmål: malt n
Nynorsk: malt n
Old English: mealt (ang) n
Persian: مالت‎ (fa) (mâlt)
Polish: słód (pl) m
Portuguese: malte (pt) m
Russian: со́лод (ru) m (sólod)
Serbo-Croatian: slȃd (sh) m, слад m
Slovak: slad m
Slovene: slad (sl) m
Spanish: malta (es) f
Swedish: malt (sv) c or n
Tagalog: malta (tl)
Tajik: сумалак (tg) (sumalak)
Turkish: malt (tr)
Ukrainian: со́лод m (sólod)
Uzbek: sumalak (uz)
Vietnamese: mạch nha (vi)
Volapük: malt (vo)
Welsh: brag m

malt liquor

Bulgarian: малцово уиски n (malcovo uiski)
Chinese:
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Finnish: mallasjuoma, mallasviski (fi)

malted milkshake

Chinese:
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Finnish: mallastettu pirtelö
Spanish: malteada (es) f

maltose-rich sugar

Chinese:
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Finnish: mallassokeri (fi)

Verb

malt (third-person singular simple present malts, present participle malting, simple past and past participle malted)

(transitive) To convert a cereal grain into malt by causing it to sprout (by soaking in water) and then halting germination (by drying with hot air) in order to develop enzymes that can break down starches and proteins in the grain.
(intransitive) To become malt.
(intransitive, dated, humorous) To drink malt liquor.

Translations

to convert grain into malt

Albanian: ndërroj (sq)
Chinese:
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Danish: malte
Dutch: mouten (nl)
Finnish: mallastaa (fi)
French: malter (fr)
German: mälzen
Italian: maltare
Norwegian:
Bokmål: malte
Nynorsk: malta, malte
Portuguese: maltar
Swedish: mälta (sv)
Volapük: maltön (vo)

Anagrams

MLAT, Mat'l, matl

Catalan

Etymology

From English malt.

Pronunciation

(Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈmalt/

(Central) IPA^(key): /ˈmal/

Noun

malt m (plural malts)

malt

Derived terms

maltar

Danish

Verb

malt

past participle of male

Dutch

Pronunciation

Audio (file)
Rhymes: -ɑlt

Noun

malt m or n (plural malts, diminutive maltje n)

(especially in diminutive) malt beer

French

Etymology

From English malt

Noun

malt m (plural malts)

malt

Descendants

→ Turkish: malt

German

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /maːlt/
Audio (file)

Verb

malt

inflection of malen:
1. third-person singular present
2. second-person plural present
3. plural imperative

Latvian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *mélˀtei. See also Proto-Slavic *moldъ.

Verb

malt (tr., 1st conj., pres. maļu, mal, maļ, past malu)

to grind
to mill
to mince
to purr

Conjugation

conjugation of malt

	INDICATIVE (īstenības izteiksme)				IMPERATIVE (pavēles izteiksme)
		Present (tagadne)	Past (pagātne)	Future (nākotne)	IMPERATIVE (pavēles izteiksme)
1st pers. sg.	es	maļu	malu	malšu	—
2nd pers. sg.	tu	mal	mali	malsi	mal
3rd pers. sg.	viņš, viņa	maļ	mala	mals	lai maļ
1st pers. pl.	mēs	maļam	malām	malsim	malsim
2nd pers. pl.	jūs	maļat	malāt	malsiet, malsit	maliet
3rd pers. pl.	viņi, viņas	maļ	mala	mals	lai maļ

RENARRATIVE (atstāstījuma izteiksme)			PARTICIPLES (divdabji)
Present	maļot		Present Active 1 (Adj.)		maļošs
Past	esot malis		Present Active 2 (Adv.)		maldams
Future	malšot		Present Active 3 (Adv.)		maļot
Imperative	lai maļot		Present Active 4 (Obj.)		maļam
CONDITIONAL (vēlējuma izteiksme)			Past Active		malis
Present	maltu		Present Passive		maļams
Past	būtu malis		Past Passive		malts
DEBITIVE (vajadzības izteiksme)			NOMINAL FORMS
Indicative	(būt) jāmaļ		Infinitive (nenoteiksme)		malt
Conjunctive 1	esot jāmaļ		Negative Infinitive		nemalt
Conjunctive 2	jāmaļot		Verbal noun		malšana

Middle English

Alternative forms

malte, maltt, mault, maulte

Etymology

From Old English mealt, from Proto-West Germanic *malt, from Proto-Germanic *maltą.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /malt/, /mau̯lt/

Noun

malt (uncountable)

malt (malted grain)
- c. 1375, “Book V”, in Iohne Barbour, De geſtis bellis et uirtutibus domini Roberti de Brwyß […] (The Brus, Advocates MS. 19.2.2)‎, Ouchtirmunſye: Iohannes Ramſay, published 1489, folio 17, verso, lines 408-410; republished at Edinburgh: National Library of Scotland, c. 2010:
  All þe wictalis owtane ſalt / Als quheyt and flour ⁊ meill ⁊ malt / In þe wyne sellar geꝛt he bꝛyng […]
  All the food except for salt, / like wheat, flour, meal, and malt, / he went to put in the wine-cellar […]

Derived terms

maltestere

Descendants

English: malt
Scots: maut
Yola: mault

References

“malt, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse malt.

Noun

malt n (definite singular maltet)

malt (grain prepared for brewing and distilling)

Verb

malt

past participle of male

References

“malt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse malt.

Noun

malt n (definite singular maltet)

malt (grain prepared for brewing and distilling)

References

“malt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse malt, from Proto-Germanic *maltą.

Noun

malt c or n

malt

Declension

Declension of malt
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	malt	malten	—	—
Genitive	malts	maltens	—	—

Declension of malt
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	malt	maltet	—	—
Genitive	malts	maltets	—	—

Derived terms

maltig

Verb

malt

supine of mala.

Anagrams

lamt

Turkish

Etymology

From French malt, itself borrowed from English malt.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [malt]

Noun

malt (definite accusative maltı, plural maltlar)

malt

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	malt
Definite accusative	maltı
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	malt	maltlar
Definite accusative	maltı	maltları
Dative	malta	maltlara
Locative	maltta	maltlarda
Ablative	malttan	maltlardan
Genitive	maltın	maltların

Volapük

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [malt]

Noun

malt (nominative plural malts)

malt (malted grain)

Declension

declension of malt

	singular	plural
nominative	malt	malts
genitive	malta	maltas
dative	malte	maltes
accusative	malti	maltis
vocative ¹	o malt!	o malts!
predicative ²	maltu	maltus

¹ status as a case is disputed
² in later, non-classical Volapük only

Synonyms

malet (obsolete)

Derived terms

Terms derived from "malt"

hodamalt
hodamaltel
maltabir
maltakaf
maltan
maltasetrat
maltavin
maltik
maltisägüköm
maltosin
maltön vt

malt

English

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Catalan

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Danish

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French

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German

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Latvian

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Middle English

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Swedish

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Turkish

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Volapük

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