ملاط

Arabic
مِلَاط

Etymology

Aramaic borrowing, found as Jewish Babylonian Aramaic הַמְלָטָא (hamlāṭā, “disputed meaning: mortar; row of bricks; beam”), Classical Syriac ܡܠܴܛܳܐ (mlāṭā, “mortar”). Also found as Hebrew מֶלֶט (meleṭ, “mortar”) in the Book of Jeremiah, 43:9, Middle Armenian մաղթ (maġtʻ, “a designation of various natural gums and resins”), as well as Ancient Greek μάλθα, μάλθη (máltha, málthē, “a kind of mixture of tar and wax for caulking ships and coating wax tablets”), whence Latin maltha (“a kind of natural tar; a kind of varnish or putty for coating containers”). Pliny the Elder describes the natural tar maltha in his Natural History 2:235 as a substance oozed up from pools at Samosata and used by the Commagenes to defend Samosata’s walls by pouring it on opponents, sticking on them and kindled by water; so its origin must be sought in a substrate there.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /mi.laːtˤ/

Noun

مِلَاط • (milāṭ) m (plural مُلُط (muluṭ))

  1. the binding agent used for constructing buildings, mortar, plaster

Declension
Declension of noun مِلَاط (milāṭ)
Singular basic singular triptote
Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal مِلَاط
milāṭ		 الْمِلَاط
al-milāṭ		 مِلَاط
milāṭ
Nominative مِلَاطٌ
milāṭun		 الْمِلَاطُ
al-milāṭu		 مِلَاطُ
milāṭu
Accusative مِلَاطًا
milāṭan		 الْمِلَاطَ
al-milāṭa		 مِلَاطَ
milāṭa
Genitive مِلَاطٍ
milāṭin		 الْمِلَاطِ
al-milāṭi		 مِلَاطِ
milāṭi
Dual Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal مِلَاطَيْن
milāṭayn		 الْمِلَاطَيْن
al-milāṭayn		 مِلَاطَيْ
milāṭay
Nominative مِلَاطَانِ
milāṭāni		 الْمِلَاطَانِ
al-milāṭāni		 مِلَاطَا
milāṭā
Accusative مِلَاطَيْنِ
milāṭayni		 الْمِلَاطَيْنِ
al-milāṭayni		 مِلَاطَيْ
milāṭay
Genitive مِلَاطَيْنِ
milāṭayni		 الْمِلَاطَيْنِ
al-milāṭayni		 مِلَاطَيْ
milāṭay
Plural basic broken plural triptote
Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal مُلُط
muluṭ		 الْمُلُط
al-muluṭ		 مُلُط
muluṭ
Nominative مُلُطٌ
muluṭun		 الْمُلُطُ
al-muluṭu		 مُلُطُ
muluṭu
Accusative مُلُطًا
muluṭan		 الْمُلُطَ
al-muluṭa		 مُلُطَ
muluṭa
Genitive مُلُطٍ
muluṭin		 الْمُلُطِ
al-muluṭi		 مُلُطِ
muluṭi

Derived terms
  • مَلَطَ (malaṭa, “to mortar, to plaster”)
  • مَلَّطَ (mallaṭa, “to mortar, to plaster”)

References
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 10–11
  • Freytag, Georg (1837) “ملاط”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 207
  • Guidi, Ignazio (1879) Della sede primitiva dei popoli semitici (in Italian), Rome: Tipi del Salviucci, page 16
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ملاط”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎ (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 1149
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ملاط”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1220
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