faqqiegħ

Maltese

Root
f-q-għ
3 terms

Etymology

From Arabic فُقّاع (fuqqāʕ).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /faʔˈʔɪːħ/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪːħ

Noun

faqqiegħ m (collective, singulative faqqiegħa, plural faqqigħat)

  1. mushroom, mushrooms (several or a mass of them; the species as such)
    Synonym: fungi
    • 1949, Anton Buttigieg, “Il-Ġebla tal-Ġeneral”, in Fanali bil-Lejl:
      u lili firdu minn mal-art għal dejjem,
      u jien sfajt blata u gżira l-aktar ċkejkna,
      bi ftit faqqiegħ u ftit gremxul sewdieni
      ngħix ħajja waħdi.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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.