xela

xela

1. inflection of xelar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Inherited from dialectal Arabic. Compare North Levantine Arabic شلي (šili, “to speak ill of, to backbite”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃɛ.la/

xela (imperfect jixli, past participle mixli, verbal noun xili)

1. to accuse, indict

• IPA^(key): /xɛˈlɑː/

xela f (Arabic spelling خەلا)

1. famine, hunger, starvation, shortage

   Synonym: nêz

• Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “xela”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary‎, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 652

• IPA^(key): [kǁeːla]

-xela

1. to confess
2. to say

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