malleable

See also: malléable

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmæli.əbəl/

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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

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)
• Esperanto: maleebla
• 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)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• 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)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• 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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.