# malt
## 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: /mɒlt/, /mɔːlt/
* (US) IPA: /mɔlt/
** (cot–caught merger) IPA: /mɑlt/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɒlt, -ɔːlt

### Noun

malt (countable and uncountable, plural malts)
* Malted grain (sprouted grain) (usually barley), used in brewing and otherwise.
* 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.
* (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.
* 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 sauna
* malt shop
* malt sugar
* malt tea
* malt vinegar
* malt whiskey
* malty
* rice malt
* single malt
* triple malt

#### See also

* mash
* wort

### Verb

malt (third-person singular simple present malts, present participle malting, simple past and past participle malted)
* (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.
* (intransitive) To become malt.
* (intransitive, dated, humorous) To drink malt liquor.

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* MLAT, Mat'l, matl

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from English malt.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈmal]
* IPA: (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmalt]

### Noun

malt m (plural malts)
* malt

#### Derived terms

* maltar

### Further reading

* “malt” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Danish
### Verb

malt
* past participle of male

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɑlt

### Noun

malt m or n (plural malts, diminutive maltje n)
* (especially in diminutive) malt beer

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from English malt.

### Noun

malt m (plural malts)
* malt

#### Descendants

* → Turkish: malt

### Further reading

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

## German
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maːlt/
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

malt
* inflection of malen:
** third-person singular present
** second-person plural present
** 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)
* to grind
* to mill
* to mince
* to purr

#### Conjugation
## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* malte, maltt, mault, maulte

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /malt/, (later) /mau̯lt/

### Noun

malt (uncountable)
* 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)‎, 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)
* malt (grain prepared for brewing and distilling)

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

malt
* past participle of male

### References

* “malt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Old Norse malt.

### Noun

malt n (definite singular maltet)
* 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
* malt

#### Derived terms

* maltig

### Verb

malt
* supine of mala

### Anagrams

* lamt

## Turkish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [malt]

### Noun

malt (definite accusative maltı, plural maltlar)
* malt [from 19th c.]

#### Declension
### Further reading

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

## Volapük
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [malt]

### Noun

malt (nominative plural malts)
* malt (malted grain)

#### Declension

$^1$ status as a case is disputed $^2$ in later, non-classical Volapük only

#### Synonyms

* malet (obsolete)

#### Derived terms

* hodamalt
* hodamaltel
* maltabir
* maltakaf
* maltan
* maltasetrat
* maltavin
* maltik
* maltisägüköm
* maltosin
* maltön (transitive verb)

#### See also

* bir
* humul