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See also: mahaba'
Asi
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]mahabà
Nubi
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Arabic مَحَبَّة (maḥabba).
Noun
[edit]mahába
References
[edit]- Wellens, Ineke (2005) The Nubi Language of Uganda: an Arabic Creole in Africa, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →ISBN
Swahili
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic مَحَبَّة (maḥabba).[1][2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mahaba (ma class, plural only)
References
[edit]- ^ Baldi, Sergio (2020 November 30) Dictionary of Arabic Loanwords in the Languages of Central and East Africa (Handbuch der Orientalistik; Erste Abteilung: Der Nahe und der Mittlere Osten; 145), Leiden • Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 68 Nr. 580
- ^ Tramutoli, Rosanna (2015) “'Love' Encoding in Swahili: a Semantic Description through a Corpus-Based Analysis”, in Swahili Forum[1], volume 22, →ISSN, page 75 of 72-103: “Another common synonym for ‘love’ is mahaba (in Arabic mahabba), derived from the Arabic root /ḥbb/.”
Further reading
[edit]- Tramutoli, Rosanna (2015) “'Love' Encoding in Swahili: a Semantic Description through a Corpus-Based Analysis”, in Swahili Forum[2], volume 22, →ISSN, page 83-84 of 72-103
Tagalog
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /maˈhabaʔ/ [mɐˈhaː.bɐʔ]
- Rhymes: -abaʔ
- Syllabification: ma‧ha‧ba
Adjective
[edit]mahabà (plural mahahaba, Baybayin spelling ᜋᜑᜊ)
Inflection
[edit] Degrees of mahaba
| positive | singular | plural | root | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| mahaba | mahahaba | haba | ||||
| superiority | inferiority | equality | ||||
| singular | plural | singular | plural | singular | plural | |
| comparative | mas mahaba | mas mahahaba | hindi gaanong mahaba | hindi gaanong mahahaba | kasinghaba | |
| relative | absolute | |||||
| singular | plural | singular | plural | singular | plural | |
| superlative | ang pinakamahaba | ang pinakamahahaba | napakamahaba | napakamahahaba | pagkahaba | pagkahaba-haba |
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “mahaba” at KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino[3], Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2021
- “mahaba”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
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- Asi terms prefixed with ma-
- Asi lemmas
- Asi adjectives
- Nubi terms derived from Arabic
- Nubi terms derived from the Arabic root ح ب ب
- Nubi lemmas
- Nubi nouns
- kcn:Love
- Swahili terms borrowed from Arabic
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- Swahili terms with audio pronunciation
- Swahili lemmas
- Swahili nouns
- Swahili ma class nouns
- Swahili pluralia tantum
- sw:Love
- Tagalog terms prefixed with ma-
- Tagalog 3-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Tagalog/abaʔ
- Rhymes:Tagalog/abaʔ/3 syllables
- Tagalog terms with malumi pronunciation
- Tagalog lemmas
- Tagalog adjectives
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