What does "malta" mean?
A non-alcoholic carbonated malt beverage, popular in Latin America.
Malta
/ˈmɑl.tə/ name, noun
name, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A non-alcoholic carbonated malt beverage, popular in Latin America.
- Grammar: malta is listed as name, noun.
- Nearest alternatives: congress, country, island nation, mediterranean country.
- Useful contrasts: colony, dependent territory.
- Usage evidence: What language is spoken in Malta?
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A non-alcoholic carbonated malt beverage, popular in Latin America. uncountable
"I toasted him with my glass of malta."
Proper Noun
- 1 An archipelago and country in Southern Europe, in the Mediterranean Sea. Official name: Republic of Malta. Capital: Valletta.
"Over the following decades, the EEC became the European Union, and expanded from the original six nations to today’s 27 members, from Finland in the north to Malta in the south."
- 2 The largest island in the Maltese Archipelago.
- 3 A small city, the county seat of Phillips County, Montana, United States.
Synonyms
All synonymsAntonyms
colonydependent territory
Example
"What language is spoken in Malta?"
Common questions
What is a synonym for "malta"?
Common synonyms include: congress, country, island nation, mediterranean country.
How do you use "malta" in a sentence?
What language is spoken in Malta?
How do you pronounce "malta"?
Pronounced /ˈmɑl.tə/.
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Italian and Maltese Malta, from Arabic مَالِطَة (māliṭa, “Māliṭa”) etc., from Latin Melita, from Ancient Greek Μελίτη (Melítē), apparently from μέλι (méli, “honey”) + -η (-ē, “-a: forming feminine place names”) although its use for the island of Malta is considered uncertain. Some scholars consider it to represent the importance of the islands' indigenous bees and their output. Others consider it a transcription of Phoenician 𐤌𐤋𐤈 (mlṭ, “Grand Harbor, Cospicua”), from 𐤌𐤋𐤈 (mlṭ, “refuge, port”), reapplied first to the island and then, after the Punic Wars, to its Roman seat of government at Mdina. Note however that Latin Malta is already attested in some medieval manuscripts of the Antonine Itinerary. See Wikipedia's articles on Melite and Malta. Doublet of Meleda and Mljet.
Etymology 2
From Spanish malta, in turn from German Malzbier.