xmara
Maltese edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Sicilian ciumara/sciumara (“river”),[1][2] now limited to Calabria, ultimately from Latin flūmen.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
xmara f (plural xmajjar, diminutive xmajra)
References edit
- ^ Behnstedt, Peter; Woidich, Manfred (2010) Wortatlas der arabischen Dialekte – Band I: Mensch, Natur, Fauna und Flora (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 100) (in German), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →ISBN, page 424 ,
- ^ AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 429: “il fiume” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it