xela
Asturian edit
Verb edit
xela
- inflection of xelar:
Maltese edit
Root |
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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)
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of xela | ||||||||
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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)
- 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
Inflection edit
This verb needs an inflection-table template.