malleable

See also: malléable

English

Etymology

From Middle French malléable, borrowed from Late Latin malleābilis, derived from Latin malleāre (“to hammer”), from malleus (“hammer”), from Proto-Indo-European *mal-ni- (“crushing”), an extended variant of *melh₂- (“crush, grind”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmæl.iː.ə.bəl/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): [ˈmæɫiəbɫ̩]
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [ˈmaɫiəbəɫ]
  • (New Zealand) IPA^(key): [ˈmɛɫiəbɫ̩], [-bɯ]

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• Hyphenation: mal‧le‧a‧ble

Adjective

malleable (comparative more malleable, superlative most malleable)

1. Able to be hammered into thin sheets; capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers.
2. (figurative) Flexible, liable to change.

   My opinion on the subject is malleable.

3. (cryptography, of an algorithm) in which an adversary can alter a ciphertext such that it decrypts to a related plaintext

Coordinate terms

• ductile

Derived terms

• malleable iron
• malleableize

 

Related terms

• malleability
• malleableness
• malleably
• malleate

Translations

able to be hammered into thin sheets

• Azerbaijani: döyülə bilən
• Bulgarian: ковък (bg) (kovǎk)
• Catalan: mal·leable (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 可锻造的

• Czech: kujný (cs)
• Dutch: hamerbaar, smeedbaar (nl)
• Esperanto: maleebla
• Finnish: taottava (fi)
• French: malléable (fr)
• German: hämmerbar (de), schmiedbar (de), formbar (de), verformbar (de), dehnbar (de), plastisch (de), biegsam (de), biegbar (de), weich (de), geschmeidig (de), veränderbar (de), gestaltbar, knetbar (de)
• Hungarian: nyújtható (hu)
• Italian: malleabile (it)
• Macedonian: ко́влив (kóvliv)
• Maori: māngohe
• Norwegian: bøyelig (no), fleksibel, smidig (no)
• Persian: چکش خور (čakoš xor)
• Polish: kowalny m, kujny (pl) m
• Portuguese: maleável (pt)
• Romanian: maleabil (ro)
• Russian: ко́вкий (ru) (kóvkij), пластичный (ru) (plastičnyj)
• Slovak: kujný
• Spanish: maleable (es)
• Swedish: smidbar (sv)
• Tagalog: pukpukin
• Turkish: dövülgen (tr)

liable to change

• Bulgarian: податлив (bg) (podatliv)
• Czech: měnitelný m, poddajný (cs) m, tvarovatelný m, tvárný (cs) m
• Dutch: kneedbaar (nl), beïnvloedbaar (nl)
• Esperanto: ŝanĝebla
• Finnish: mukautuvainen
• German: veränderlich (de), flexibel (de), formbar (de), dehnbar (de), beeinflußbar (de)
• Hungarian: képlékeny (hu)
• Italian: malleabile (it), forgiabile (it)
• Macedonian: по́датлив (pódatliv), ме́нлив (ménliv)
• Manx: so-lhoobagh, so-chummeydagh
• Norwegian: fleksibel, smidig (no), formbar (no)
• Persian: قابل انعطاف (fa) (qâbel-e en'etâf), انعطاف پذیر (en'etâf pazir)
• Polish: podatny (pl) m
• Portuguese: maleável (pt)
• Romanian: maleabil (ro)
• Russian: пода́тливый (ru) (podátlivyj), восприимчивый (ru) (vospriimčivyj)
• Swedish: smidbar (sv)

References

• “malleable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.