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ملاط

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Arabic

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مِلَاط
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Etymology

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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.

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Noun

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مِلَاط (milāṭm (plural مُلُط (muluṭ))

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

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References

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  • 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[1] (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[2] (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[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1220