minn bejn l-imwiet

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic مِنْ بَيْنِ الْأَمْواتِ (min bayni al-ʔamwāti, “from the dead”), used with the same wording by Arabic-speaking Christians. It preserves an old broken plural of mejjet (“dead”), which has otherwise been regularized to mejtin in Maltese.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪnn ˈbɛjn lɪmˈwɪːt/

Adverb

minn bejn l-imwiet

1. (Christianity) from the dead (construed with qam)

   Sidna Ġesù Kristu qam minn bejn l-imwiet.

   Our Lord Jesus Christ has risen from the dead.