ragħa
Maltese
Etymology
From Arabic رَعَى (raʿā).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /raː/
- Homophone: ra
Verb
ragħa (imperfect jirgħa)
- to graze (animals); to herd
- (figuratively, also Christianity) to tend; to lead (e.g. a congregation)
Usage notes
- The perfect forms are entirely homophonous with those of ra (“to see”). The confusion can be dispelled e.g. by using kien + imperfect: kien jirgħa n-nagħaġ (“he grazed sheep”).
Conjugation
conjugation of ragħa
| singular | plural | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person m | 3rd person f | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |||
| jien(a) | int(i) | hu(wa) | hi(ja) | aħna | intom | huma | |||
| perfect | rgħajt | rgħajt | ragħa | rgħat | rgħajna | rgħajtu | rgħaw | ||
| imperfect | nirgħa | tirgħa | jirgħa | tirgħa | nirgħu | tirgħu | jirgħu | ||
| imperative | irgħa | irgħu | |||||||
Related terms
- ragħaj