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Maltese
Etymology
From Arabic رُكْبَة (rukba). The modern Maltese form with metathesis, gemination and devoicing is a backformation from the plural (or original dual). From the expected *rokba, it would yield *rukbtejn, where the triple consonant cluster was simplified to *rkubtejn. Compare the same in mnifsejn (instead of *minfsejn), plural of minfes (“nostril”).
Pronunciation
Noun
rkoppa f (dual rkupptejn or rkopptejn, plural rkupptejn or rkopptejn or rkopop)
- (anatomy) knee
It-tubu tal-irkoppa għandu żewġ toqob li jillimitaw il-moviment tar-riġel.- The knee tube has two lugs which limit the movement of the lower leg.
Inflection