minn bejn l-imwiet
Maltese edit
Etymology edit
From Arabic مِنْ بَيْنِ الْأَمْواتِ (min bayni al-ʔamwāti, “from the dead”), used with the same wording by Arabic-speaking Christians. It preserves an old broken plural of mejjet (“dead”), which has otherwise been regularized to mejtin in Maltese.
Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
minn bejn l-imwiet
- (Christianity) from the dead (construed with qam)
- Sidna Ġesù Kristu qam minn bejn l-imwiet.
- Our Lord Jesus Christ has risen from the dead.