Maltese

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Root
q-d-s
11 terms

Etymology

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Derived from qaddis (holy) with the common measure for abstract nouns, perhaps as an alteration of Arabic قُدْسِيّة (qudsiyya), which would have yielded Maltese *qudsija or *qodsija.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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qdusija f (plural qdusijiet)

  1. holiness
    Synonym: qodos