dahar

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic ظَهْر (ẓahr, “back”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /daːr/
• Homophone: dar

Noun

dahar m (plural dhur or dhura or idhra, diminutive dhajjar)

1. (anatomy) back
   • 2022, Nadia Mifsud, meta tinfetaq il-folla, Ede Books, →ISBN:

     f’żarbun ġa ssikkat. irkiekel dahri
     tat-terrakotta － ’kk tmisshom,
     isiru frak. dil-belt tentakli waħedha －
     għoddha qalftitni fatat.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • c. 2015, Il-Bibbja : il-Kotba Mqaddsa, 5th edition, Valletta: Ghaqda Biblika Maltija, →OCLC, Il-Ktieb tal-Eżodu 23:27:

     […] u nġiegħel l-għedewwa tiegħek idawru daharhom lejk.

     King James Version translation: […] and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.

Inflection

Inflected forms
Personal-pronoun- including forms	singular		plural
	m	f
1st person	dahri		daharna
2nd person	dahrek		daharkom
3rd person	dahru	daharha	daharhom

Sundanese

Sundanese register set
lemes (ᮜᮨᮙᮨᮞ᮪)	tuang
loma (ᮜᮧᮙ)	neda
kasar (ᮊᮞᮁ)	dahar

Etymology

Cognate with Old Javanese ḍahar (“food, meal”), Javanese dhahar

Verb

dahar

1. to eat

   Synonyms: emam, hakan, jablog, nyatu

Derived terms

• kadaharan (“food”)