għama

Maltese

Root
għ-m-j
3 terms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈaː.ma/
  • IPA(key): /ˈaˤː.ma/ (archaic)
  • Homophone: agħma
  • Rhymes: -aːma, -aˤːma

Etymology 1

From Arabic عَمًى (ʕaman, “blindness”). Originally a masculine, but feminine in Maltese due to the final -a and hence distinguishable from the adjective (etymology 3 below).

Noun

għama f

  1. blindness

Etymology 2

From Arabic أَعْمَى (ʔaʕmā, “to blind”).

Verb

għama (imperfect jagħmi, past participle mogħmi)

  1. (also figuratively) to blind, to make someone blind
Conjugation
Conjugation of għama (Form I)
positive forms
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
perfect m għamejt għamejt għama għamejna għamejtu għamew
f għamiet
imperfect m nagħmi tagħmi jagħmi nagħmu tagħmu jagħmu
f tagħmi
imperative agħmi agħmu

Etymology 3

See the lemma.

Adjective

għama

  1. misspelling of agħma (“blind”)
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