deha
Appearance
Aja (West Africa)
[edit]Noun
[edit]deha
Maltese
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- heda (see usage notes below)
Etymology
[edit]Apparently from Arabic دَهِيَ (dahiya).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]deha (imperfect jedha, past participle medhi)
Usage notes
[edit]- The metathesised form heda seems now predominant in practice. Especially past tense forms are attested almost exclusively from this latter.
Conjugation
[edit]| positive forms | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |||||||
| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |||
| perfect | m | dhejt | dhejt | deha | dhejna | dhejtu | dhew | |
| f | dhiet | |||||||
| imperfect | m | nedha | tedha | jedha | nedhew | tedhew | jedhew | |
| f | tedha | |||||||
| imperative | edha | edhew | ||||||
Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Ottoman Turkish دها (deha), from Arabic دَهَاء (dahāʔ).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]deha (definite accusative dehayı, plural dehalar)
- geniusness, mastermind
- Synonym: dâhilik
- genius
- Synonym: dâhi
Declension
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Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “deha”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “deha”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “deha”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Categories:
- Aja (West Africa) lemmas
- Aja (West Africa) nouns
- Maltese terms belonging to the root d-h-w
- Maltese terms inherited from Arabic
- Maltese terms derived from Arabic
- Maltese 2-syllable words
- Maltese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Maltese/ɛːa
- Rhymes:Maltese/ɛːa/2 syllables
- Maltese lemmas
- Maltese verbs
- Maltese form-I verbs
- Maltese final-weak form-I verbs
- Maltese final-weak verbs
- Turkish terms inherited from Ottoman Turkish
- Turkish terms derived from Ottoman Turkish
- Turkish terms derived from Arabic
- Turkish terms derived from the Arabic root د ه ي
- Turkish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Turkish lemmas
- Turkish nouns