ملاط

Meaning

the binding agent used for constructing buildings, mortar, plaster

mortar

حمأة

pasta aguada

medio pastoso

harç

Pronounced as (IPA)

/mi.laːtˤ/

Aramaic borrowing, found as Jewish Babylonian Aramaic הַמְלָטָא (hamlāṭā, “disputed meaning: mortar; row of bricks; beam”), Classical Syriac ܡܠܴܛܳܐ (mlāṭā, “mortar”). Also found as Hebrew מֶלֶט (meleṭ, “mortar”) in the Book of Jeremiah, 43:9, Middle Armenian մաղթ (maġtʻ, “a designation of various natural gums and resins”), as well as Ancient Greek μάλθα, μάλθη (máltha, málthē, “a kind of mixture of tar and wax for caulking ships and coating wax tablets”), whence Latin maltha (“a kind of natural tar; a kind of varnish or putty for coating containers”). Pliny the Elder describes the natural tar maltha in his Natural History 2:235 as a substance oozed up from pools at Samosata and used by the Commagenes to defend Samosata’s walls by pouring it on opponents, sticking on them and kindled by water; so its origin must be sought in a substrate there.