maleta

Borrowed from Spanish maleta.

• Hyphenation: ma‧le‧ta
• IPA^(key): /maˈleta/ [maˈl̪e.ta]

maléta

1. suitcase, briefcase
2. valise, trunk

   Synonyms: baul, kaban

Borrowed from Old French malete, diminutive of male (“leather bag”). Cognate with contemporary French mallette (“briefcase”).

• IPA^(key): (Central) [məˈlɛ.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [məˈlə.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [maˈle.ta]
• Homophone: meleta

• Audio:

  (file)

maleta f (plural maletes)

1. suitcase

• “maleta”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “maleta”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “maleta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from Spanish maleta (“suitcase”).

maleta

1. rifle case

• Hilton, K. Simón (1993) Diccionario tarahumara de Samachique, Chihuahua, México (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 101)‎^[1] (in Spanish), special corrected and updated edition, Tucson: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 42
• Hilton, K. Simón with Shoemaker, Wes (2016) Diccionario tarahumara actualizado‎^[2] (in Spanish), draft edition, SIL International, page 28

From Spanish maleta (“suitcase”).

maleta

1. suitcase

maleta

1. abessive singular of male

Attested since 1370. Ultimately from Old French malete, displacing maeta (13th century), from male (“leather bag, leather or wooden travel-case”), from Frankish *malha (“leather bag”), from Proto-Germanic *malhō (“leather bag”). Compare English mail.

• IPA^(key): [maˈletɐ]

maleta f (plural maletas)

1. suitcase
   • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana. Introducción e texto, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 417:

     Et poso en suas maletas seu auer, et vesteusse moy rricament

     And she put her belongings in her suitcases, and dressed herself richly

2. (figurative) hunchback
3. (figurative) jobless and lazy person; vagrant

   Synonym: palanquín

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “maleta”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “maleta”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “maleta”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “maleta”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “maleta”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Spanish maleta and Portuguese maleta.

maleta

1. suitcase
2. trunk

• Hyphenation: ma‧le‧ta

maleta f (plural maletas)

1. suitcase
2. bag
3. briefcase (case used for carrying documents)

• valise

From mala (“suitcase”, originally referred to a larger item like a chest or trunk) +‎ -eta (diminutive suffix).

• IPA^(key): /maˈleta/ [maˈle.t̪a]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eta
• Syllabification: ma‧le‧ta

maleta f (plural maletas)

1. suitcase (large piece of luggage)

   Synonyms: valija, petaca

2. (Chile, Venezuela) trunk, boot (of a car)

   Synonyms: maletero, cajuela

• → Bikol Central: maleta
• → Central Tarahumara: maleta
• → Cebuano: maleta
• > Chavacano: maleta (inherited)
• → Tagalog: maleta
• → Tausug: malita
• → Yakan: maleta

• “maleta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Borrowed from Spanish maleta (“suitcase”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /maˈleta/ [mɐˈlɛː.t̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -eta
• Syllabification: ma‧le‧ta

maleta (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜎᜒᜆ)

1. suitcase; valise

• “maleta”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
• “maleta”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Borrowed from Spanish maleta (“suitcase”).

maleta

1. suitcase