Malčište (Macedonian: Малчиште, Albanian: Malçisht) is a village in the municipality of Studeničani, North Macedonia.

The name stems from the Albanian word for mountains, mal[1] According to the 1467-68 Ottoman defter, Malčište appears as being inhabited by an Orthodox Christian population.

[2] In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village of Malčište was inhabited by 90 Muslim Albanians.

[4] The Yugoslav census of 1953 recorded 194 people of whom 135 were Albanians, 52 Turks and 7 Macedonians.

[5] The 1981 Yugoslav census recorded 69 people of whom were 47 Turks, 17 Albanians, 1 Macedonian and 4 others.