fergħun
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Maltese
[edit]Root |
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f-r-għ-n |
4 terms |
Etymology
[edit]From Arabic فِرْعَوْن (firʕawn, “pharaoh”). The tyranny of the pharaohs, especially with regard to Moses, is very much stressed in the Quran and has become proverbial in Arabic.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]fergħun m (plural friegħen, diminutive frejgħen)
- an evil or unscrupulous person
- a devil
- 2014, Marlene Mifsud Chircop, “Ix-xitan fil-folklor Malti”, in L-Imnara: Folklor minn Malta, volume 10, number 3, BDL Publishing, →ISSN, page 31:
- Fil-folklor tagħna x-xitan għandu diversi appellattivi jew karatteristiċi (A.F. Attard 2002): […] il-fergħun, […]
- In our folklore, the devil has many names and characteristics (A.F. Attard 2002): […] the devil, […]