indicate the level to which a name has been verified.
Type Country & Island
Usage Maltese, Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, Georgian, German, Greek, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Kurdish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malay, Mongolian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Tajik, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Uzbek
Scripts مالطا(Arabic) Մալթա(Armenian) Мальта(Belarusian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Mongolian Cyrillic, Russian, Ukrainian) Малта(Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian, Tajik, Uzbek Cyrillic) მალტა(Georgian) Μάλτα(Greek) مالتا(Kazakh Arabic) ماڵتا(Kurdish Sorani)
Pronounced Pron. /ˈmɐl.tɐ/(Maltese) /maːl.ˈtˤaː/(Arabic) /mɑl.ˈtʰɑ/(Armenian) /ˈmalʲ.ta/(Belarusian) /ˈmal.tə/(Catalan) /ˈmal.ta/(Catalan, Czech, German, Polish, Romanian, Spanish) /ˈmɑɫ.ta/(Dutch) /ˈmɑl.ta/(Dutch) /ˈmɔːl.tə/(British English) /ˈmɑl.tə/(American English) /ˈmɔl.tə/(American English) /mɑl.tʼɑ/(Georgian) /ˈmaɫ.tɐ/(European Portuguese) /ˈmɑlʲ.tɐ/(Russian, Ukrainian) /ˈmaɫ.ta/(Slovak) /ˈmaɫ.tʰa/(Turkish) [key·simplify]
Other Forms FormsMalt'a (Armenian, Georgian)
Meaning & History
Uncertain, possibly derived from Greek μέλι (meli) meaning "honey". This is the name of an island nation in southern Europe.