beża'
Maltese
Etymology
From Arabic فَزِعَ (faziʿa, “to fear”, now chiefly “to be terrified, to panic”) with b- from a development [fz] > [vz] > [bz] in some of the inflected forms (as also in qabeż). The verb is an archaism in Maltese as most other Arabic dialects only continue خافَ (ḵāfa), which Maltese in turn lacks.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbɛza/
Verb
beża' (imperfect jibża')
- to fear
Conjugation
conjugation of beża'
| 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 | bżajt | bżajt | beża' | beżgħet | bżajna | bżajtu | beżgħu | ||
| imperfect | nibża' | tibża' | jibża' | tibża' | nibżgħu | tibżgħu | jibżgħu | ||
| imperative | ibża' | ibżgħu | |||||||
Related terms
- biża'