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^[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 C^ie, 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