rikeb

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Maltese

Root
r-k-b
9 terms

Etymology

From Arabic رَكِبَ (rakiba).

Pronunciation

Verb

rikeb (imperfect jirkeb, active participle riekeb, verbal noun rkib or rikbien or rkub)

  1. to ride a horse, a vehicle
    • 1970, Anton Buttigieg, “Il-Pjazza”, in Fl-Arena:
      Kulħadd jimxi, kollox lajma,
      jirkeb biss xi sinjur kbir:
      bini l-għatx u tawni nixrob
      minn ġos-satal fuq il-bir.
      Everyone walks, everything is sluggish,
      only some great lord rides:
      I was thirsty and they gave me a drink
      from the bucket inside the well.
  2. to mount a horse, a vehicle
  3. to enslave, to subjugate
  4. to contract a disease
  5. to copulate
  6. to overlap

Conjugation

Conjugation of rikeb
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
perfect m rkibt rkibt rikeb rkibna rkibtu rikbu
f rikbet
imperfect m nirkeb tirkeb jirkeb nirkbu tirkbu jirkbu
f tirkeb
imperative irkeb irkbu