bajtar

Maltese

Etymology

From dialectal Arabic بَيْثَر‎ (bayṯar), from Latin bifer. Compare Tunisian Arabic بيثر‎ (bīṯar), بيفر‎ (bīfar) and Libyan Arabic بيثر‎ (bīṯar).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈbaj.tar/

Noun

bajtar m (collective, singulative bajtra, paucal bajtriet)

  1. (properly) figs
    Synonym: tin
  2. (now often) Short for bajtar tax-xewk (“prickly pears”).
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