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

• (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

• double malt
• malt dust
• malt floor
• malt-forward
• malthouse, malt house
• malting
• malt-kiln
• maltless
• malt liquor
• malt loaf
• malt-o-meal
• maltose
• malt shop
• malt sugar
• malt tea
• malt vinegar
• malt whiskey
• malty
• rice malt
• 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 (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)
• Latvian: iesals (lv) 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
• 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

• 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

• 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.

Translations

to convert grain into malt

• Albanian: ndërroj (sq)
• 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): (Central) [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, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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:

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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

	INDICATIVE (īstenības izteiksme)				IMPERATIVE (pavēles izteiksme)
		Present (tagadne)	Past (pagātne)	Future (nākotne)
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/, (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 […]

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.

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

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

Further reading

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

Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [malt]

Noun

malt (nominative plural malts)

1. 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

See also

• bir
• humul