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Type Country & Island
Usage Maltese, Arabic, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, English, German, Dutch, Afrikaans, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Estonian, Finnish, Basque, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Albanian, Romanian, Greek, Latvian, Lithuanian, Turkish, Azerbaijani, Armenian, Georgian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tajik, Turkmen, Uzbek, Indonesian, Malay, Mongolian
Scripts مالطا(Arabic) Мальта(Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Mongolian Cyrillic) Малта(Serbian, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Tajik, Uzbek) Μάλτα(Greek) Մալթա(Armenian) მალტა(Georgian)
Pronounced Pron. /ˈmaːl.ta/(Maltese) /ˈmaːl.tˤaː/(Arabic) /ˈmal.ta/(Italian, Spanish, German, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Romanian) /ˈmaɫ.tɐ/(European Portuguese) /ˈmaw.tɐ/(Brazilian Portuguese) /ˈmal.tə/(Catalan) /ˈmɑl.tə/(American English) /ˈmɒl.tə/(British English) /ˈmɑl.taː/(Dutch) /ˈmɑl.tɑ/(Estonian, Finnish) /ˈmɑlʲ.tɐ/(Russian, Ukrainian) /ˈmalʲ.ta/(Belarusian) /mɑl.ˈtʰɑ/(Armenian) /mɑl.tʼɑ/(Georgian)
Meaning & History
From Arabic مالطا (Mālṭā), possibly from Greek μέλι (meli) meaning "honey". This is the name of a European island nation in the Mediterranean Sea.