malleable

From Middle French malléable, borrowed from Late Latin malleābilis, derived from Latin malleāre (“to hammer”), from malleus (“hammer”), from Proto-Indo-European *mal-ni- (“crushing”), an extended variant of *melh₂- (“crush, grind”).

IPA^(key): /ˈmæl.iː.ə.bəl/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [ˈmaɫiəbəɫ]
- (General American) IPA^(key): [ˈmæɫiəbɫ̩]
- (New Zealand) IPA^(key): [ˈmɛɫiəbɫ̩], [-bɯ]
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Hyphenation: mal‧le‧a‧ble

malleable (comparative more malleable, superlative most malleable)

Able to be hammered into thin sheets; capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers.
(figurative) Flexible, liable to change.
My opinion on the subject is malleable.
- 2024 May 11, Lorna Camus, Kirsty Jones, Emily O’Dowd, Bonnie Auyeung, Gnanathusharan Rajendran, Mary Elizabeth Stewart, “Autistic Traits and Psychosocial Predictors of Depressive Symptoms”, in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, →DOI:
  The psychosocial factors in this study are malleable and provide target areas for enhancing mental health in those with high levels of autistic traits.
(cryptography, of an algorithm) in which an adversary can alter a ciphertext such that it decrypts to a related plaintext

able to be hammered into thin sheets

Azerbaijani: döyülə bilən
Bulgarian: ковък (bg) (kovǎk)
Catalan: mal·leable (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 可锻造的
Czech: kujný (cs)
Dutch: hamerbaar, smeedbaar (nl)
Esperanto: maleebla
Finnish: taottava (fi)
French: malléable (fr)
German: hämmerbar (de), schmiedbar (de), formbar (de), verformbar (de), dehnbar (de), plastisch (de), biegsam (de), biegbar (de), weich (de), geschmeidig (de), veränderbar (de), gestaltbar, knetbar (de)
Hungarian: nyújtható (hu)
Italian: malleabile (it)
Macedonian: ко́влив (kóvliv)
Maori: māngohe
Norwegian: bøyelig (no), fleksibel, smidig (no)
Persian: چکش خور (čakoš xor)
Polish: kowalny m, kujny (pl) m
Portuguese: maleável (pt)
Romanian: maleabil (ro)
Russian: ко́вкий (ru) (kóvkij), пластичный (ru) (plastičnyj)
Slovak: kujný
Spanish: maleable (es)
Swedish: smidbar (sv)
Tagalog: pukpukin
Turkish: dövülgen (tr)

liable to change

Bulgarian: податлив (bg) (podatliv)
Czech: měnitelný m, poddajný (cs) m, tvarovatelný m, tvárný (cs) m
Dutch: kneedbaar (nl), beïnvloedbaar (nl)
Esperanto: ŝanĝebla
Finnish: mukautuvainen
German: veränderlich (de), flexibel (de), formbar (de), dehnbar (de), beeinflussbar (de)
Hungarian: képlékeny (hu)
Italian: malleabile (it), forgiabile (it)
Macedonian: по́датлив (pódatliv), ме́нлив (ménliv)
Manx: so-lhoobagh, so-chummeydagh
Norwegian: fleksibel, smidig (no), formbar (no)
Persian: قابل انعطاف (fa) (qâbel-e en'etâf), انعطاف پذیر (en'etâf pazir)
Polish: podatny (pl) m
Portuguese: maleável (pt)
Romanian: maleabil (ro)
Russian: пода́тливый (ru) (podátlivyj), восприимчивый (ru) (vospriimčivyj)
Swedish: smidbar (sv)

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