ġab
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See also: gab
Maltese
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ġ-j-b |
7 terms |
Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From common dialectal Arabic جَاب (jāb), from a univerbation of جاءَ بِ (jāʔa bi-, literally “to come with”). By surface analysis, ġie + b’. The vowel -a- is irregular; the expected form is the less common variant ġieb.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]ġab (imperfect jġib, past participle miġjub, verbal noun ġejbien)
- to bring, to carry
- 1970, Anton Buttigieg, “Lis-Sena l-Ġdida 1964”, in Fl-Arena:
- X’sejra ġġibilna ġewwa l-fardal tiegħek.
ja Sena Ġdida?
Ah! biegħed minna
il-għelt, il-ġlied,
id-demm bejn l-aħwa;
rażżan ir-regħba u l-ġibdiet tal-ħakma,
rattab l-irjus u l-qlub,
ġibilna s-sabar ta’ xulxin, l-imħabba,
ġibilna l-għaqda,
ġibilna s-sliem,
ġibilna l-ħelsien!- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- to procure, to cause
- to fetch (a price), to sell for
- to form, to give shape (to something)
- to work out, to form, to calculate; to guess, to succeed
- to turn, to change (something)
- to translate
- to render [with b’ ‘something’]
- to publish, to make public (in newspapers); to expose to people's gossip
- to imagine
- to esteem
- (reflexive) to behave
- (reflexive) to grow
- to cause sexual orgasm
Conjugation
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- Maltese terms belonging to the root ġ-j-b
- Maltese terms inherited from Arabic
- Maltese terms derived from Arabic
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