jaf

See also: jàf and jäf

Translingual

Symbol

jaf

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Jara.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Jara terms

Antigua and Barbuda Creole English

Noun

jaf (plural jaf dem, quantified jaf)

1. draft

Verb

jaf (past min jaf, future go jaf, a go jaf, wi jaf, wil jaf, completive dun jaf, imperfective a jaf)

1. to draft

Maltese

Root
għ-r-f
9 terms

Etymology

From Arabic يَعْرِفُ (yaʕrifu), imperfect of عَرَفَ (ʕarafa, “to know, get to know, find out”). Doublet of uncontracted għaraf (“to recognise, become aware of, find out”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jaːf/
• Rhymes: -aːf

Verb

jaf (imperfect only)

1. to know; to be able to do sth.

   Ma nafx. ― I don't know.

   Ma kienx jaf li wasalna. ― He didn't know that we'd arrived.

   Ma nafx jekk huwa jkunx reliġjuż. ― I don't know whether [or not] he's religious.

   • 2023, Keith Borg, magħġuna fit-tbenġil, Ede Books, →ISBN:

     kull skuża
     f’soċjetà kkankrata
     li ma tridx taf b’mara
     sakemm m’hemmx kwota
     li ma tridx taf b’mara
     sakemm ma tridx tivvota

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Conjugation

• The verb is defective and has no perfect forms. The perfect tense is expressed with forms of kien followed by the imperfect forms.

Conjugation of jaf

positive forms
		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
perfect	m	kont naf	kont taf	kien jaf	konna nafu	kontu tafu	kienu jafu
	f			kienet taf
imperfect	m	naf	taf	jaf	nafu	tafu	jafu
	f			taf
imperative			kun af			kunu afu

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Polish żak.

Pronunciation

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Noun

jaf n (plural jafuri)

1. robbery

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	jaf	jaful		jafuri	jafurile
genitive-dative	jaf	jafului		jafuri	jafurilor
vocative	jafule			jafurilor