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iżda. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word
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iżda in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word
iżda you have here. The definition of the word
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Maltese
Etymology
Uncertain. Perhaps from Arabic أَصْدَق (ʔaṣdaq, “more truthfully”, in the sense of “rather, more properly”). As the emphatic -ṣ- could have been assimilated to the -d- and/or dissimilated against the -q-, the form is entirely regular but for the loss of the final consonant. This loss in turn seems plausible in such a frequently used word (and perhaps also by analogy with the synonymous imma).
Pronunciation
Conjunction
iżda
- but
- Synonyms: imma, (colloquial) però