mahaba
Nubi
References
- Ineke Wellens (2005) The Nubi Language of Uganda: an Arabic Creole in Africa, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →ISBN
Swahili
Pronunciation
Audio (Kenya) (file)
References
- 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, 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
- Tramutoli, Rosanna (2015) “'Love' Encoding in Swahili: a Semantic Description through a Corpus-Based Analysis”, in Swahili Forum, volume 22, →ISSN, page 83-84 of 72-103
Tagalog
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /maˈhabaʔ/ [mɐˈha.bɐʔ]
- Rhymes: -abaʔ
- Syllabification: ma‧ha‧ba
Inflection
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
- mahaba ang pasensiya
- Mahabang Dahilig
- Mahabang Parang
Related terms
Further reading
- “mahaba” at KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2021
- “mahaba”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
Tausug
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