malt

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See also: MALT, målt, malț, and Mal't

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

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.

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Verb[edit]

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.

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Catalan[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English malt.

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Noun[edit]

malt m (plural malts)

  1. malt

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Danish[edit]

Verb[edit]

malt

  1. past participle of male

Dutch[edit]

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Noun[edit]

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

  1. (especially in diminutive) malt beer

French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English malt.

Noun[edit]

malt m (plural malts)

  1. malt

Descendants[edit]

  • Turkish: malt

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German[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

malt

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

Latvian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Verb[edit]

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

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

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Middle English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

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

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Noun[edit]

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 []

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Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia no

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old Norse malt.

Noun[edit]

malt n (definite singular maltet)

  1. malt (grain prepared for brewing and distilling)

Etymology 2[edit]

Verb[edit]

malt

  1. past participle of male

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Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nn

Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse malt.

Noun[edit]

malt n (definite singular maltet)

  1. malt (grain prepared for brewing and distilling)

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Swedish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

malt c or n

  1. malt

Declension[edit]

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[edit]

Verb[edit]

malt

  1. supine of mala

Anagrams[edit]

Turkish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

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Noun[edit]

malt (definite accusative maltı, plural maltlar)

  1. malt [from 19th c.]

Declension[edit]

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

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Volapük[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

malt (nominative plural malts)

  1. malt (malted grain)

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