bellah
Maltese
Etymology
Factitive second stem derived from iblah (“stupid”), from Arabic أَبْلَه (ʾablah).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbɛl.laħ/
Verb
bellah (imperfect jbellah, past participle mbellah)
- to amaze, astound
- Synonym: għaġġeb
Conjugation
- The sound /ħ/ is kept in all conjugated forms. The spelling is h instead of ħ because this fortition has not been generalised throughout the root (compare belha /ˈbɛla/, bluha /ˈbluːwa/).
conjugation of bellah
| 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 | bellaht | bellaht | bellah | bellhet | bellahna | bellahtu | bellhu | ||
| imperfect | nbellah | tbellah | jbellah | tbellah | nbellhu | tbellhu | jbellhu | ||
| imperative | bellah | bellhu | |||||||
Related terms
- iblah
- bluha