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Maltese
Etymology
From Arabic رَكِبَ (rakiba).
Pronunciation
Verb
rikeb (imperfect jirkeb, active participle riekeb, verbal noun rkib or rikbien or rkub)
- 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.
- to mount a horse, a vehicle
- to enslave, to subjugate
- to contract a disease
- to copulate
- to overlap
Conjugation