bajtar

Maltese

Etymology

From dialectal Arabic بَيْثَر (bayṯar), from Latin bifer. Compare Tunisian Arabic بيثر (bīṯar), بيفر (bīfar) and Libyan Arabic بيثر (bīṯar).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbaj.tar/
  • Rhymes: -ajtar

Noun

bajtar m (collective, singulative bajtra, paucal bajtriet)

  1. (properly) figs
    Synonym: tin
  2. (now often) short for bajtar tax-xewk (“prickly pears”)
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.