tagħrib
Maltese edit
| Root |
|---|
| għ-r-b (Arab) |
| 2 terms |
Etymology edit
Probably inherited from Arabic تَعْرِيب (taʕrīb), though it might have been re-formed independently at some point; compare how Arabic itself freely builds تَتْرِيك (tatrīk, “turkification”), تَرْوِيس (tarwīs, “russification”), etc. The use in linguistics is a recent semantic loan from Arabic. Otherwise, derived verbal noun of għarrab.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tagħrib m
- verbal noun of għarrab.
- arabisation
- Synonym: Arabizzazzjoni
- (especially linguistics) the adaptation of a loanword to the phonetic and morphologic system of Arabic or one of its descendants such as Maltese.