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Maltese
Alternative forms
- xebaħ (unofficial, but common)
Etymology
From Arabic شَبِهَ (šabiha), أَشْبَهَ (ʔašbaha).
Pronunciation
Verb
xebah (imperfect jixbah)
- to resemble; to be similar to
Conjugation
- The sound /ħ/ is kept in all conjugated forms. The spelling is h instead of ħ because this fortition has not been generalised throughout the root (compare xbieha /ˈʒbɪːja/).
- The perfect tense is highly archaic and not part of contemporary standard Maltese. It is replaced with kien + imperfect.
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