bellah
Maltese edit
| Root |
|---|
| b-l-h |
| 5 terms |
Etymology edit
Factitive second stem derived from iblah (“stupid”), from Arabic أَبْلَه (ʔablah).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
bellah (imperfect jbellah, past participle mbellah)
Conjugation edit
- The sound /ħ/ is kept in all conjugated forms. The spelling is h instead of ħ because this fortition has not been generalised throughout the root (compare belha /ˈbɛ.la/, bluha /ˈbluː.wa/).
| Conjugation of bellah | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |||||||
| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |||
| perfect | m | bellaht | bellaht | bellah | bellahna | bellahtu | bellhu | |
| f | bellhet | |||||||
| imperfect | m | nbellah | tbellah | jbellah | nbellhu | tbellhu | jbellhu | |
| f | tbellah | |||||||
| imperative | bellah | bellhu | ||||||