rikeb
Maltese
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r-k-b |
9 terms |
Etymology
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editrikeb (imperfect jirkeb, active participle riekeb, verbal noun rkib or rikbien or rkub)
- to ride a horse, a vehicle
- 1970, Anton Buttigieg, “Il-Pjazza”, in Fl-Arena:
- Kulħadd jimxi, kollox lajma,
jirkeb biss xi sinjur kbir:
bini l-għatx u tawni nixrob
minn ġos-satal fuq il-bir.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- to mount a horse, a vehicle
- to enslave, to subjugate
- to contract a disease
- to copulate
- to overlap [with fuq]
Conjugation
editConjugation of rikeb | ||||||||
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singular | plural | |||||||
1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |||
perfect | m | rkibt | rkibt | rikeb | rkibna | rkibtu | rikbu | |
f | rikbet | |||||||
imperfect | m | nirkeb | tirkeb | jirkeb | nirkbu | tirkbu | jirkbu | |
f | tirkeb | |||||||
imperative | irkeb | irkbu |