malt

See also: Appendix:Variations of "malt"

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mɒlt/, /mɔːlt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /mɔlt/
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /mɑlt/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɒlt, -ɔːlt

Noun

malt (countable and uncountable, plural malts)

1. Malted grain (sprouted grain) (usually barley), used in brewing and otherwise.
2. Malt liquor, especially malt whisky.
   • 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, section 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.

3. (US, informal) A milkshake with malted milk powder added for flavor.

   Synonym: malted

   • 1992, Toni Morrison, Jazz, Vintage (2016), page 89:

     Afterward she sat in the drugstore sucking malt through a straw.

4. Maltose-rich sugar derived from malted grain.

Derived terms

• ball of malt
• double malt
• maltase
• malt dust
• malternative
• maltery
• malt floor
• malt-forward
• malthouse, malt house
• maltin
• malting
• maltitol
• malt-kiln
• maltless
• malt liquor
• malt loaf
• maltman
• maltol
• malt-o-meal
• maltose
• malt sauna
• malt shop
• maltster
• malt sugar
• malt tea
• malt vinegar
• malt whiskey
• maltworm
• malty
• rice malt
• single malt
• triple malt

Translations

sprouted grain used in brewing

Arabic: مَلْت (ar) m (malt) Armenian: ածիկ (hy) (acik) Bashkir: ҡур (qur) Belarusian: со́лад m (sólad) Bulgarian: слад m (slad), малц (bg) 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 (ka) (alao) German: Malz (de) n Greek: βύνη (el) f (výni) Ancient Greek: βύνη f (búnē) Hebrew: לֶתֶת (he) (létet) Hungarian: maláta (hu) Ingrian: mallas, iys Irish: braich f Italian: malto (it) m Japanese: 麦芽 (ja) (ばくが, bakuga) Kashubian: słód m Korean: 엿기름 (ko) (yeotgireum), 보리길금 (borigilgeum) (North Korea) Kyrgyz: угут (ugut) Latin: maltum n Latvian: iesals (lv) m Lithuanian: salyklas m Macedonian: слад m (slad) Malay: malta Māori: 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 Southern Altai: уут (uut) Spanish: malta (es) f Swedish: malt (sv) c or n Tagalog: malta (tl) Tajik: сумалак (tg) (sumalak) Turkish: malt (tr) Udmurt: ӵужъем (čužjem) Ukrainian: со́лод m (sólod) Uyghur: оғут (oghut) Uzbek: sumalak (uz) Vietnamese: mạch nha (vi) Volapük: malt (vo) Welsh: brag m Yoruba: bọ̀tí

malt liquor

Bulgarian: малцово уиски n (malcovo uiski) Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Danish: please add this translation if you can Finnish: mallasjuoma (fi), mallasviski (fi)

malted milkshake

Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Danish: please add this translation if you can Finnish: mallastettu pirtelö Spanish: malteada (es) f

maltose-rich sugar

Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Danish: please add this translation if you can Finnish: mallassokeri (fi)

See also

• mash
• wort

Verb

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

1. (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.
2. (intransitive) To become malt.
3. (intransitive, dated, humorous) To drink malt liquor.

Derived terms

• maltable
• maltase
• malternative
• maltery
• maltin
• maltitol
• maltman
• maltol
• maltster
• maltworm

Translations

to convert grain into malt

Albanian: ndërroj (sq) Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can 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

Borrowed from English malt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Central, Northwestern) [ˈmal]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmalt]

Noun

malt m (plural malts)

1. malt

Derived terms

• maltar

Further reading

• “malt”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Danish

Verb

malt

1. past participle of male

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɑlt

Noun

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

1. (especially in diminutive) malt beer

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English malt.

Noun

malt m (plural malts)

1. malt

Descendants

• → Turkish: malt

Further reading

• “malt”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maːlt/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Verb

malt

1. 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 (transitive, 1st conjugation, present maļu, mal, maļ, past malu)

1. to grind
2. to mill
3. to mince
4. to purr

Conjugation

Conjugation of malt (1st)

	indicative (īstenības izteiksme)	imperative (pavēles izteiksme)
		present (tagadne)	past (pagātne)	future (nākotne)
1st person sg	es	maļu	malu	malšu	—
2nd person sg	tu	mal	mali	malsi	mal
3rd person sg	viņš, viņa	maļ	mala	mals	lai maļ
1st person pl	mēs	maļam	malām	malsim	malsim
2nd person pl	jūs	maļat	malāt	malsiet, malsit	maliet
3rd person 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/, (later) /mau̯lt/

Noun

malt (uncountable)

1. 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)‎^[1], 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 […]

   • 1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “The Somnours Tale”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published [c. 1400–1410], →OCLC, folio 80, recto:

     Ẏıf vs a buſſhel whete / Malt oꝛ Reẏe / A goddes kechẏl / oꝛ a trẏp[e] of cheeſe / Oꝛ ellıs what ẏow lẏſt / we maẏ nat cheſe […]

     "Give us a bushel of wheat, malt, or rye, a God's cake, a bit of cheese / or anything that you want; we don't need to choose […] "

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)

1. malt (grain prepared for brewing and distilling)

Etymology 2

Verb

malt

1. past participle of male

References

• “malt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse malt.

Noun

malt n (definite singular maltet)

1. malt (grain prepared for brewing and distilling)

References

• “malt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɑlt/, [mɑɫt]
• Rhymes: -ɑlt

Noun

malt n

1. alternative form of mealt

Swedish

Etymology

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

Noun

malt c or n

1. malt

Declension

Declension of malt

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	malt	malts
definite	malten	maltens
plural	indefinite	—	—
definite	—	—

Declension of malt

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	malt	malts
definite	maltet	maltets
plural	indefinite	—	—
definite	—	—

Derived terms

• maltig

Verb

malt

1. supine of mala

Anagrams

• lamt

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish مالت (malt), from French malt, itself borrowed from English malt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [malt]

Noun

malt (definite accusative maltı, plural maltlar)

1. malt [from 19th c.]

Declension

Declension of malt

	singular	plural
nominative	malt	maltlar
definite accusative	maltı	maltları
dative	malta	maltlara
locative	maltta	maltlarda
ablative	malttan	maltlardan
genitive	maltın	maltların

Further reading

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “malt”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [malt]

Noun

malt (genitive malta, plural malts)

1. malt (malted grain)

Declension

Declension of malt

	Singular	Plural
Nominative	malt	malts
Genitive	malta	maltas
Dative	malte	maltes
Accusative	malti	maltis
Predicative1	maltu	maltus
Vocative	o malt	o malts

1. Introduced in Volapük Nulik.

Synonyms

• malet (obsolete)

Derived terms

• hodamalt
• hodamaltel
• maltabir
• maltakaf
• maltan
• maltasetrat
• maltavin
• maltik
• maltisägüköm
• maltosin
• maltön (transitive verb)

See also

• bir
• humul

Further reading

• “malt”, in Vödabuk (in English, Esperanto, and Volapük)