bajtar

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Maltese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From dialectal Arabic بَيْثَر (bayṯar), from Latin bifer. Compare Tunisian Arabic بيثر (bīṯar), بيفر (bīfar) and Libyan Arabic بيثر (bīṯar).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

bajtar m (collective, singulative bajtra, paucal bajtriet)

  1. (properly) figs
    Synonym: tin
  2. (now often) Short for bajtar tax-xewk (“prickly pears”).
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