maltais
French, noun
maltais is spelled M-A-L-T-A-I-S (7 letters) and appears 1.6 times per million words in written French, the 23,487th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Maltais is a French masculine noun meaning “Maltese, the Maltese language” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/second-person singular imperfect indicative of malter. With a capital, Maltais is a different word: “Maltese (resident or native of Malta)”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Langue sémitique parlée à Malte”.
What does maltais mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineMaltese, the Maltese language
adjective
- 1
Maltese
verb
- 1
first/second-person singular imperfect indicative of malter
noun
- 1
masculineMaltese (resident or native of Malta)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Relatif à Malte et à ses habitants.
noun: 1. Langue sémitique parlée à Malte.
noun: 1. Variante de bichon maltais (race de chien). 2. Race de pigeons originaires d’Asie, venus en Europe de Malte, au corps court très relevé, à long cou et longues pattes.
noun: 1. Habitant ou natif de Malte. 2. Peuple qui vit essentiellement en Malte.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of maltais
- maltaise feminine
- maltaises feminine plural
- Maltaise feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to maltais
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is maltais in French?
maltais appears 1.6 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).