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Maltese
Etymology
From xemx (“sun”) + -i. As such perhaps inherited from Arabic شَمْسِيّ (šamsiyy, “solar”), but in the grammatical sense a calque of the Arabic.
Pronunciation
Adjective
xemxi (feminine singular xemxija, plural xemxin)
- sunny
- (rare) solar
- Synonym: solari
- Antonyms: lunari, qamri
- (grammar, of a consonant) assimilating to the definite article il- (which see)
- Antonym: qamri