xeher

Maltese

Root
x-h-r
8 terms

Etymology

From Arabic شَهَرَ (šahara), أَشْهَرَ (ʔašhara, “to announce, spread, make public”). The contemporary sense developed in the context of death or specifically the announcement of a person’s passing by ritualised lamentation, which is found in some countries and formerly existed also in Malta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɛːr/

Verb

xeher (imperfect jixher, past participle mixhur, active participle xieher, verbal noun xhir or xehir)

1. to lament, wail, cry loudly
2. to divulge, to publish

Conjugation

Conjugation of xeher
		singular				plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person
perfect	m	xhirt	xhirt	xeher		xhirna	xhirtu	xehru
	f			xehret
imperfect	m	nixher	tixher	jixher		nixhru	tixhru	jixhru
	f			tixher
imperative			ixher				ixhru