Malta

Definitions: Malta

Malta

Noun

1. A republic on the island of Malta in the Mediterranean; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1964.

2. A strategically located island south of Sicily in the Mediterranean Sea.

Date "Malta" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references)

Synonym: Malta

Synonym: Republic of Malta (n). (additional references)

Synonym by domain: mla (transportation).

Since 1993, Malta has been subdivided into 68 local councils or localities. These form the most basic form of local government and there are no intermediate levels between it and the national level. The following list divides them by island:

Island of Malta Island of Gozo

Attard
Balzan
Birgu
Birkirkara
Birżebbuġa
Bormla
Dingli
Fgura
Floriana
Gudja
Gżira
Għargħur
Għaxaq
Ħamrun
Iklin
Isla
Kalkara
Kirkop
Lija
Luqa
Marsa
Marsaskala
Marsaxlokk
Mdina
Mellieħa
Mġarr
Mosta

Mqabba
Msida
Mtarfa
Naxxar
Paola
Pembroke
Pietà
Qormi
Qrendi
Rabat (Rabat, Malta)
Safi
Saint Julian's (San Ġiljan)
Saint Lucia's (Santa Luċija)
Saint Paul's Bay (San Pawl il-Baħar)
San Ġwann
Santa Venera
Siġġiewi
Sliema
Swieqi
Ta' Xbiex
Tarxien
Valletta
Xgħajra
Żabbar
Żebbuġ
Żejtun
Żurrieq

Fontana
Għajnsielem
Għarb
Għasri
Kerċem
Munxar
Nadur
Qala
Victoria (Rabat, Gozo)
Saint Lawrence (San Lawrenz)
Sannat
Xagħra
Xewkija
Żebbuġ

Crosswords: Malta

English words defined with "Malta": capital of Malta ♦ Hospitaler ♦ lira ♦ Malta fever, Maltese, Maltese dog, Maltese lira, Maltese monetary unit ♦ Republic of Malta ♦ Valetta, Valletta. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Malta": 43758 ♦ 59538 ♦ 60150 ♦ Barabas ♦ Calypso's Isle ♦ Fair Havens ♦ Melita. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Malta" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Afrikaan (Malta), Czech (Grout, Malta, mortar), Dutch (Malta), Esperanto (Maltese), German (Malta), Italian (Malta, mortar), Manx (Malta), Portuguese (band, gang, malted milk, maltha), Serbo-Croatian (malta, maltha), Spanish (malt, Malta, malts), Swedish (Malta), Turkish (Malta).

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

I Cavalieri di Malta (1971)

The Malta Story (1953)

Message from Malta (1943)

Malta G.C. (1942)

A Gentleman from Malta (1997)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
References	The 2000 Import and Export Market for Tea and Maté in Malta (reference) A Strategic Profile of Malta,1999 edition (reference) Executive Report on Strategies in Malta, 2000 edition (reference) The 2000 Import and Export Market for Cheese and Curd in Malta (reference) The 2001 Malta Economic and Product Market Databook (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Vita quotidiana sulle galere dell'Ordine di Malta nel '700 : la caravana marina di fra' Francesco Antonio Mansi (1728-1729) (reference) Goddess, giantess, farmeress : female images of Malta (reference) Besieged: The World War 2 Ordeal of Malta, 1940-1942 (reference) The future of U.S. antiterrorism policy : hearings and markup of H. Res. 118, To Condemn the Release by the Government of Malta of Convicted Terrorist Mohammed Ali Rezaq, before the Subcommittee on International Security, International Organizations, and (reference) Doctor Faustus and Other Plays (A and B Texts, Tamburlaine parts I and II, The Jew of Malta, Edward II) (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Malta Year Book (reference) Quarterly Review : Central Bank Of Malta (reference) Cerveza Y Malta (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	Crusades and the Knights of Malta (reference) The Malta Story (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Time in Malta / Breathe in (Split CD) (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	The camp at Malta Triangulation party of Wilbur Porter.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.		Figure 8. Skead sounder invented by Francis Skead during telegraph survey operations between Malta and Crete off HMS TARTARUS in 1857. This device was designed to mitigate problems with the Brooke and Bonnici sounders. The first would sink in soft sediment without detaching the weight while the second rarely returned samples.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.
	Hospital at Valletta, Malta. : Headquarters and Hospital of the Hospitallers in Malta.Credit: National Library of Medicine.		In Malta, water samples are taken every day ... for analysis by the public health laboratory. / WHO p.Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by E. Mandelmann..
	Underway in Chesapeake Bay, 29 July 1967, upon her return from the Mediterranean Sea. She had been attacked and seriously damaged by Israeli air and surface forces while operating off the Sinai Peninsula on 8 June 1967, during the "Six-Day War", and was subsequently repaired at Malta.Credit: NAVY.		Watercolor by an unidentified artist, depicting the ship at Malta. This ship of the line was later renamed Alfred.Credit: NAVY.
	HMS Valiant leads the line as the Italian fleet steams into Malta, under the terms of the Italian Armistice. The scene is framed by the after 15-inch guns of HMS Warspite.Credit: NAVY.		Crimean Conference. Admiral Hewitt, President Roosevelt, and Admiral Stark aboard a warship. Malta. / Signal Corps photo.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Evacuation of Malta.Credit: Library of Congress.		Freight train operations on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad between Chicago and Clinton, Iowa. The train rushing through the town of Malta, Illinois on its way to Clinton.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	In the waters of Malta, when a galley was approaching, they heard the song before they heard the oars.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		A "major" market is defined as a country where Malta represents a substantially large share of either imports or exports. (references)
		From these figures, rankings are calculated to allow managers to prioritize Malta compared to other major country markets. (references)
Economic History	Malta	Malta thus became an appendage of Sicily for 440 years. (references)
	Malta	Political parties: Nationalist Party, Malta Labor Party. (references)
	Malta	Malta has two official languages--Maltese (a Semitic language) and English. (references)
Political Economy	Malta	Malta is a constitutional republic and a parliamentary democracy. (references)
Trade	France	The EU has customs union agreements (two-way free trade with common external tariffs) with Turkey, Cyprus, Andorra and Malta. (references)
	Switzerland	Additional such agreements are foreseen for Slovenia, Albania, Macedonia, Egypt, Malta, Morocco, Tunisia, Cyprus, the Palestinian Authority, Jordan and Lebanon. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Madonna	We shot the movie in Malta in Sardinia, and obviously it was, you know, a huge benefit that I was married to the director and so we were together as a family the entire time. And that was fabulous. I loved it.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Malta" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 99.84% of the time. "Malta" is used about 622 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	99.84%	621	10,417
Noun (singular)	0.16%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	622	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "Malta" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Malta	Last name	400	20,113
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

1. Malta, ID (city, FIPS 50230)
Location: 42.30760 N, 113.36969 W
Population (1990): 171 (77 housing units)
Area: 3.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Country: USA

2. Malta, IL (village, FIPS 46279)
Location: 41.93018 N, 88.86309 W
Population (1990): 865 (339 housing units)
Area: 0.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 60150
Country: USA

3. Malta, MT (city, FIPS 47425)
Location: 48.35478 N, 107.86996 W
Population (1990): 2340 (1144 housing units)
Area: 2.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 59538
Country: USA

4. Malta, OH (village, FIPS 46970)
Location: 39.65044 N, 81.86456 W
Population (1990): 802 (328 housing units)
Area: 0.8 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 43758
Country: USA

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Expression: Malta

Expressions using "Malta": capital of Malta ♦ Knight of Malta ♦ Malta Bend ♦ malta fever ♦ Republic of Malta. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "Malta": malta-based, malta-destined.
	Ending with "Malta": After-malta.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Malta

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
malta	2,827
valletta malta	654
malta hotel	443
mellieha malta	278
knight of malta	136
malta map	135
gharb gozo malta	121
air malta	120
malta holiday	101
times of malta	92
malta weather	76
university malta	75
island malta	71
malta mt	62
malta il	56
malta window	56
malta chat	50
flight to malta	50
search malta	50
malta real estate	48
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Malta

Language		Translations for "Malta"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		Malta. (various references)

Albanian		Maltë. (various references)

Bulgarian		Малта. (various references)

Chinese		马耳他. (various references)

Czech		Malta (Grout, mortar). (various references)

Danish		MT (Republic of Malta), Malta (Republic of Malta, The Republic of Malta), republikken Malta (Republic of Malta, The Republic of Malta). (various references)

Dutch		Malta (Republic of Malta, The Republic of Malta). (various references)

Esperanto		Malto. (various references)

Finnish		MT (Republic of Malta), Maltan tasavalta (Republic of Malta), Malta (Republic of Malta). (various references)

French		Malte (Republic of Malta, The Republic of Malta). (various references)

German		Malta (Republic of Malta, The Republic of Malta). (various references)

Greek		MT (mobile terminated, mobile termination, Republic of Malta), όελίτη, όάλτα, Μάλτα (Republic of Malta), �"ημοκρατία της Μάλτας (Republic of Malta). (various references)

Hungarian		Málta. (various references)

Irish		MÚlta. (various references)

Italian		Malta (mortar, Republic of Malta, The Republic of Malta). (various references)

Korean		말타. (various references)

Manx		Malta. (various references)

Pig Latin		altamay

Portuguese		MT (million tons, Republic of Malta), Malta (band, gang, malted milk, maltha, Republic of Malta), Uísque De Malte, República de Malta (Republic of Malta). (various references)

Romanian		brucelozã (brucelliasis, brucellosis, malta fever). (various references)

Russian		Мальта. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		malta (maltha). (various references)

Spanish		Malta (malt, malts, Republic of Malta). (various references)

Swedish		Malta (Republic of Malta). (various references)

Turkish		Malta. (various references)

Ukranian		Мальта. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Malta

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	Melita. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Malta

Derivations
	Words beginning with "Malta": maltase, maltases. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Malta" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Amplitaq, Balta, Kaltbad, Mactay, Majluta, Malak, malat, Malbak, maleta, Malhal, Malita, Malja, Malla, Mallya, Maltas, malto, Malva, Mamta, Matla, Matlala, Mbalya, Mealda, Melga, Melita, melta, Melzak, Mgala, Mhala, Mifta, Mlada, Mlita, Molza, Muleta, multa, Mutla, Mutlu, Qalat. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Malta

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: tamal.
	Words within the letters "a-a-l-m-t"
	-1 letter: alma, atma, lama, malt, tala.
	-2 letters: aal, ala, alt, ama, lam, lat, mat, tam.
	-3 letters: aa, al, am, at, la, ma, ta.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-l-m-t"
	+1 letter: amatol, lactam, malate, maltha, meatal, tamale, tamals.
	+2 letters: amatols, clamant, hematal, lactams, lambast, lemmata, malates, maleate, maltase, malthas, marital, martial, matilda, matinal, oatmeal, palmate, tamable, tamales, tambala, tampala, thalami.
	+3 letters: alarmist, almagest, ambulant, ambulate, antimale, atomical, autumnal, blastema, blastoma, calamint, calamite, calamity, celomata, claimant, climatal, comatula, dalmatic, fatalism, flatmate, gliomata, haematal, hamulate, lambaste, lambasts, laminate, lipomata, maculate, malamute, malapert, maleates, maltases, maltreat, mantilla, material, maternal, matildas, matronal, meatball, meatloaf, metazoal, oatmeals, palmated, playmate, primatal, staminal, stomatal, taillamp, talesman, talisman, tallyman, tambalas, tameable, tampalas, tantalum, thalamic, thalamus, tympanal, ultimata.
	+4 letters: acclimate, adamantly, admiralty, alarmists, almagests, almandite, aluminate, amatively, ambulated, ambulates, amorality, animality, animately, asphaltum, atemporal, atonalism, autosomal, azimuthal, baptismal, blastemal, blastemas, blastomas, calamints, calamites, calmative, cataclysm, cataplasm, cattleman, claimants, clamantly, classmate, coelomata, comatulae, cyclamate, dalmatian, dalmatics, diametral, diplomata, fatalisms, flatmates, glutamate, impartial, lambasted, lambastes, lamellate, laminated, laminates, laminator, lanthanum, maculated, maculates, magistral, malachite, maladroit, malamutes, malaperts, malathion, malignant, maltreats, mantillas, maritally, martially, matambala, matchable, materials, matutinal, mayoralty, meatballs, melismata, metalmark, metalware, militaria, montadale, myelomata, nameplate, palmately, palmation, palmitate, patrolman, plantsman, plasmatic, playmates, primatals, primatial, rampantly, stableman, stalemate, tablemate, taillamps, talismans, tallaisim, tamarillo, tantalums, tularemia, untamable.
	+5 letters: acclimated, acclimates, accumulate, acetabulum, acoelomate, alimentary, almandites, altazimuth, aluminates, amalgamate, ambivalent, ambulating, ambulation, ambulatory, ameliorate, ameloblast, amiability, amyloplast, analemmata, anatomical, animatedly, anticlimax, antifamily, antifemale, antimonial, asphaltums, assimilate, atomically, atonalisms, autumnally, blastemata, blastomata, calamities, calamitous, calmatives, calumniate, campestral, capitalism, catabolism, cataclysms, catamenial, cataplasms, chloasmata, classmates, colobomata, cyclamates, dalmatians, delaminate, dermatomal, dogmatical, emasculate, extramural, factualism, fathomable, flamboyant, fragmental, glutamates, hemiacetal, immaculate, immaterial, intramural, lacrimator, lambasting, lamentable, lamentably, laminating, lamination, laminators, lanthanums, laparotomy, laundromat, loadmaster, lymphomata, maculating, maculation, malachites, maladapted, malapertly, malathions, malefactor, malolactic, maltreated, maltreater, manipulate, marketable, martingale, materially, maternally, matricidal, maximalist, meatloaves, melanomata, metacarpal, metagalaxy, metalmarks, metalwares, metaplasia, metastable, metastably, metatarsal, militiaman, miscatalog, mistakable, montadales, mortadella, multiaxial, mutational, nameplates, naturalism, nonmarital, ommatidial, ophthalmia, ornamental, palmations, palmitates, parliament, phantasmal, platemaker, premarital, scleromata, semantical, spermatial, stablemate, stalagmite, stalemated, stalemates, stomodaeal, tablemates, talismanic, tamarillos, toxoplasma, trawlerman, tularemias, ultrahuman, ultramafic, ultrasmall, ultrasmart.
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Alternative Orthography: Malta

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 61 6C 74 61

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

⁼

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-- .- .-.. - .-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01100001 01101100 01110100 01100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#97 &#108 &#116 &#97

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0061 006C 0074 0061

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4767788667

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Island of Malta		Island of Gozo
Attard Balzan Birgu Birkirkara Birżebbuġa Bormla Dingli Fgura Floriana Gudja Gżira Għargħur Għaxaq Ħamrun Iklin Isla Kalkara Kirkop Lija Luqa Marsa Marsaskala Marsaxlokk Mdina Mellieħa Mġarr Mosta	Mqabba Msida Mtarfa Naxxar Paola Pembroke Pietà Qormi Qrendi Rabat (Rabat, Malta) Safi Saint Julian's (San Ġiljan) Saint Lucia's (Santa Luċija) Saint Paul's Bay (San Pawl il-Baħar) San Ġwann Santa Venera Siġġiewi Sliema Swieqi Ta' Xbiex Tarxien Valletta Xgħajra Żabbar Żebbuġ Żejtun Żurrieq	Fontana Għajnsielem Għarb Għasri Kerċem Munxar Nadur Qala Victoria (Rabat, Gozo) Saint Lawrence (San Lawrenz) Sannat Xagħra Xewkija Żebbuġ

Malta

Definitions: Malta

Malta

Noun

Synonym: Malta

Specialty Definition: Local councils of Malta

Crosswords: Malta

Modern Usage: Malta

Movie/TV Titles

Commercial Usage: Malta

References

Books

Periodicals

Theater & Movies

Music

Image Slideshow: Malta

Photos:Malta

Illustrations:Malta

Computer Images:Malta

Photo Album: Malta

Use in Literature: Malta

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Non-Fiction Usage: Malta

Spoken Usage: Malta

Madonna

Usage Frequency: Malta

Name Usage Frequency: Malta

Cities: Malta

Expression: Malta

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Malta

malta

valletta malta

malta hotel

mellieha malta

knight of malta

malta map

gharb gozo malta

air malta

malta holiday

times of malta

malta weather

university malta

island malta

malta mt

malta il

malta window

malta chat

flight to malta

search malta

malta real estate

Modern Translations: Malta

Afrikaan

Albanian

Bulgarian

Chinese

Czech

Danish

Dutch

Esperanto

Finnish

French

German

Greek

Hungarian

Irish

Italian

Korean

Manx

Pig Latin

Portuguese

Romanian

Russian

Serbo-Croatian

Spanish

Swedish

Turkish

Ukranian

Ancestral Language Translations: Malta

Derivations & Misspellings: Malta

Photos:
Malta

Illustrations:
Malta

Computer Images:
Malta