Asturian edit

Verb edit

xela

  1. inflection of xelar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Maltese edit

Root
x-l-j
1 term

Etymology edit

Inherited from dialectal Arabic. Compare North Levantine Arabic شلي (šili, to speak ill of, to backbite).

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

xela (imperfect jixli, past participle mixli, verbal noun xili)

  1. to accuse, indict

Conjugation edit

    Conjugation of xela
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
perfect m xlejt xlejt xela xlejna xlejtu xlew
f xliet
imperfect m nixli tixli jixli nixlu tixlu jixlu
f tixli
imperative ixli ixlu

Northern Kurdish edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

xela f (Arabic spelling خەلا)

  1. famine, hunger, starvation, shortage
    Synonym: nêz

References edit

  • Chyet, Michael L. (2003), “xela”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 652

Xhosa edit

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

-xela

  1. to confess
  2. to say

Inflection edit

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