rgħajn
Maltese
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Arabic غَيْن (ḡayn). The spelling ‹rgħ› is a merely linguistic convention, due to the use of [ʁ] for ‹r› in languages like French or German as well as in Maltese speakers with a rhotacism.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editrgħajn f
- the voiced velar or voiced uvular fricative /ɣ~ʁ/, an archaic phoneme in Maltese; see għ for more