malt
pronunciation
How to pronounce malt in British English:
UK [mɔ:lt]
How to pronounce malt in American English:
US [mɔlt]
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- Noun:
- a milkshake made with malt powder
- a lager of high alcohol content; by law it is considered too alcoholic to be sold as lager or beer
- a cereal grain that is kiln-dried after having been germinated by soaking in water; used especially in brewing and distilling
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- Verb:
- treat with malt or malt extract
- turn into malt, become malt
- convert grain into malt
- convert into malt
Word Origin
- malt
- malt: [OE] Malt goes back to prehistoric Germanic *malt-, a variant of which produced English melt. Hence it seems to denote etymologically the ‘softening’ of the barley or other grain by steeping it in water preparatory to germinating it for use in brewing (German malz means ‘soft’ as well as ‘malt’).=> melt
- malt (n.)
- Old English malt (Anglian), mealt (West Saxon), from Proto-Germanic *maltam (cognates: Old Norse malt, Old Saxon malt, Middle Dutch, Dutch mout, Old High German malz, German Malz "malt"), from PIE *meld- (see melt (v.)), extended form of root *mel- "soft," probably via notion of "softening" the grain by steeping it in water before brewing. Finnish mallas, Old Church Slavonic mlato are considered to be borrowed from Germanic.
- malt (v.)
- mid-15c., "to convert grain to malt," from malt (n.). Meaning + "to make with malt" is from c. 1600. Related: Malted; malting. Malt liquor (which is fermented, not brewed) first attested 1690s. Malted "a drink with malted milk" is from 1945.
Example
- 1. Different sorts of beer need differently milled malt .
- 2. First of all , they mill malt with a special mill .
- 3. New century brewing company , which sells the caffeinated malt alcohol beverage moonshot .
- 4. The malt factory is the last relic of the collectively owned industrial complex that was once beihe .
- 5. Water , malt , hop and yeast are main components of the beer production process .