xela

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Asturian

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Verb

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xela

  1. inflection of xelar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Maltese

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Root
x-l-j
1 term

Etymology

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Inherited from dialectal Arabic. Compare North Levantine Arabic شلي (šili, to speak ill of, to backbite).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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xela (imperfect jixli, past participle mixli, verbal noun xili)

  1. to accuse, indict

Conjugation

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    Conjugation of xela
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
perfect m xlejt xlejt xela xlejna xlejtu xlew
f xliet
imperfect m nixli tixli jixli nixlu tixlu jixlu
f tixli
imperative ixli ixlu

Northern Kurdish

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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xela f (Arabic spelling خەلا)

  1. famine, hunger, starvation, shortage
    Synonym: nêz

References

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  • Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “xela”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary[1], with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 652

Xhosa

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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-xela

  1. to confess
  2. to say

Inflection

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This verb needs an inflection-table template.