mnieħer

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Maltese

Root
n-ħ-r
3 terms

Alternative forms

  • imnieħer (after a consonant, mostly also after a pause)

Etymology

From Arabic مَناخِير (manāḵīr), plural of مِنْخار (minḵār, “nostril”), whence Maltese minħar. Arabic dialects have widely lost the word أَنْف (ʔanf, “nose”) and replaced it with this word (either the plural as in Maltese, or the singular).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /(ɪ)mˈnɪː.ħɛr/

Noun

mnieħer m (plural (rare ad-hoc formations) mneħrijiet or mniħrijiet)

  1. (anatomy) nose

Inflection

    Inflected forms
Personal-pronoun-
including forms 		singular plural
m f
1st person mnieħri mneħirna, mniħirna
2nd person mnieħrek mneħirkom, mniħirkom
3rd person mnieħru mneħirha, mniħirha mneħirhom, mniħirhom

Noun

mnieħer

  1. (archaic) plural of minħar (“nostril”)
    Synonym: (usual) mnifsejn
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