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Maltese
Etymology
From Arabic شَرِبَ (šariba).
Pronunciation
Verb
xorob (imperfect jixrob, past participle mixrub, verbal noun xarb or xrib or xorb)
- to drink
1970, Anton Buttigieg, “Il-Pjazza”, in Fl-Arena:Kulħadd jimxi, kollox lajma,
jirkeb biss xi sinjur kbir:
bini l-għatx u tawni nixrob
minn ġos-satal fuq il-bir.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- to absorb (physically or mentally)
- to do something quickly
- to cause illness as a result of the evil eye
Conjugation