מַלֵּיתָא, (מְלֵי) filling up, complement. B. Bath. 104ᵇ top [read:] ואי איכא יתירא למ׳ דתשעה וכ׳ (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 40) and if there is a surplus, it must go to make up the nine ḳab