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Maltese
- xebbaħ (unofficial, but common)
Etymology
From Arabic شَبَّهَ (šabbaha).
Pronunciation
Verb
xebbah (imperfect jxebbah, past participle mxebbah)
- to liken, to compare (to declare a similarity between to things, be it actual or figurative)
- Xebbahhom mal-ilpup. ― He likened them to wolves.
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/).
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