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x-h-r |
8 terms |
From Arabic شَهَرَ (šahara), أَشْهَرَ (ʔašhara, “to announce, spread, make public”). The contemporary sense developed in the context of death or specifically the announcement of a person’s passing by ritualised lamentation, which is found in some countries and formerly existed also in Malta.
xeher (imperfect jixher, past participle mixhur, active participle xieher, verbal noun xhir or xehir)
Conjugation of xeher | ||||||||
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singular | plural | |||||||
1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |||
perfect | m | xhert | xhert | xeher | xherna | xhertu | xehru | |
f | xehret | |||||||
imperfect | m | nixher | tixher | jixher | nixhru | tixhru | jixhru | |
f | tixher | |||||||
imperative | ixher | ixhru |