obda

Karao

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish obra.

Noun

obda

1. work

Maltese

Etymology

Borrowed from Sicilian obbidiri, ubbidiri and/or Italian obbedire, ubbidire, both from Latin oboedire. The Maltese imperfect tense looks like a native form, whence the Semitic (alternative) past participle. The regularisation of the past tense into *beda was hindered by the unrelated beda (“to begin”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔb.da/

Verb

obda (imperfect jobdi, past participle obdut or mobdi)

1. to obey

Conjugation

Conjugation of obda
		singular				plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person
perfect	m	obdejt	obdejt	obda		obdejna	obdejtu	obdew
	f			obdiet
imperfect	m	nobdi	tobdi	jobdi		nobdu	tobdu	jobdu
	f			tobdi
imperative			obdi				obdu

Related terms

• ubbidjent (obbedjent)
• ubbidjenza (obbedjenza)