Cypriot Arabic edit

Root
p-x-r
5 terms

Etymology edit

From Arabic تَبَخَّرَ (tabaḵḵara).

Verb edit

θpaxxer V (present pkyiθpaxxer)

  1. to waft one another with the smoke of blessed olive branches

References edit

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