għagħa
Appearance
Maltese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Arabic غَاغَة (ḡāḡa, “mob, crowd”). The word is an extreme example of how the loss/vowelisation of għ has weakened the phonetic shapes of many words in Maltese. One might think that għagħa would subsequently have come out of use, but it remains common.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]għagħa m or f
Usage notes
[edit]- Originally and still often feminine, but because of the now monosyllabic pronunciation it may also be construed as a masculine.
Verb
[edit]għagħa (imperfect jgħagħi)
Conjugation
[edit]Categories:
- Maltese terms belonging to the root għ-għ-j
- Maltese terms inherited from Arabic
- Maltese terms derived from Arabic
- Maltese 1-syllable words
- Maltese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Maltese 2-syllable words
- Maltese lemmas
- Maltese nouns
- Maltese masculine nouns
- Maltese terms spelled with Għ
- Maltese feminine nouns
- Maltese nouns with multiple genders
- Maltese verbs
- Maltese terms with obsolete senses
- Maltese form-III verbs
- Maltese final-weak form-III verbs
- Maltese final-weak verbs