minn bejn l-imwiet

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic مِنْ بَيْنِ الْأَمْواتِ‎ (min bayni l-ʾamwāti, “from the dead”), used with the same wording by Arabic-speaking Christians. It preserves an old broken plural of mejjet (“dead”), which has otherwise been regularized to mejtin in Maltese.

Adverb

minn bejn l-imwiet

  1. (Christianity) from the dead (construed with qam)
    Sidna Ġesù Kristu qam minn bejn l-imwiet.
    Our Lord Jesus Christ has risen from the dead.
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