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 (Form I)
positive forms
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
perfect m xhert xhert xeher xherna xhertu xehru
f xehret
imperfect m nixher tixher jixher nixhru tixhru jixhru
f tixher
imperative ixher ixhru
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