pxil

Cypriot Arabic

Root
p-x-l
1 term

Etymology

From Arabic بَخِيل (baḵīl).

Adjective

pxil (feminine pxile, common plural pxelín)

1. stingy, tightfisted

References

• Borg, Alexander (2004) A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 152