malt

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.

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

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• Rhymes: -ɒlt, -ɔːlt

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.

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.

• MLAT, Mat'l, matl

Borrowed from English malt.

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

malt m (plural malts)

1. malt

• maltar

• “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

malt

1. past participle of male

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• Rhymes: -ɑlt

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

1. (especially in diminutive) malt beer

Borrowed from English malt.

malt m (plural malts)

1. malt

• → Turkish: malt

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

• IPA^(key): /maːlt/

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malt

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

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

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

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

• malte, maltt, mault, maulte

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

• IPA^(key): /malt/, (later) /mau̯lt/

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 […] "

• maltestere

• English: malt
• Scots: maut
• Yola: mault

• “malt, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Old Norse malt.

malt n (definite singular maltet)

1. malt (grain prepared for brewing and distilling)

malt

1. past participle of male

• “malt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse malt.

malt n (definite singular maltet)

1. malt (grain prepared for brewing and distilling)

• “malt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /mɑlt/, [mɑɫt]

malt n

1. alternative form of mealt

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

malt c or n

1. malt

• maltig

malt

1. supine of mala

• lamt

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

• IPA^(key): [malt]

malt (definite accusative maltı, plural maltlar)

1. malt [from 19th c.]

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

• IPA^(key): [malt]

malt (genitive malta, plural malts)

1. malt (malted grain)

• malet (obsolete)

• bir
• humul

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