mpalas

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Cypriot Arabic

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Root
p-l-s
4 terms

Etymology

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From Arabic اِنْبَلَصَ (inbalaṣa).

Verb

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mpalas VII (present pkyíniples) (intransitive)

  1. to be pressed, to be squashed, to be crashed
  2. to be run over

References

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  • Borg, Alexander (2004) A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 165