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Noun [Maltese]

IPA: /ˈħaː.rɛs/ Forms: iħirsa [plural], ħorsien [plural], ħarsijiet [plural]
Etymology: In the present form it should be from Arabic حارِس (ḥāris, “guard, guardian”), active participle of حَرَسَ (ḥarasa) above; quite plausibly through the idea that ghosts watch over, or haunt, certain localities. The unusual plural iħirsa (from underlying *iħrsa as in iġsma) might then be explained as continuing Arabic حَرَسة (ḥarasa). However, it is worth noting that Castagna in his history of Malta says that the peasants, even in his day, believed the ħares to be a black snake that controlled the destiny of a house’s inhabitants and therefore must never be killed. This leaves the possibility that the eventual etymon may in fact be Arabic خَرْساء (ḵarsāʔ, “viper”, literally “deaf one”). Etymology templates: {{inh|mt|ar|حارِس|t=guard, guardian}} Arabic حارِس (ḥāris, “guard, guardian”), {{m+|ar|حَرَسة}} Arabic حَرَسة (ḥarasa), {{m+|ar|خَرْساء|lit=deaf one|t=viper}} Arabic خَرْساء (ḵarsāʔ, “viper”, literally “deaf one”) Head templates: {{mt-noun|g=m|p=iħirsa|p2=ħorsien|p3=ħarsijiet}} ħares m (plural iħirsa or ħorsien or ħarsijiet)
  1. ghost, spectre Tags: masculine Synonyms: waħx, fatat
    Sense id: en-ħares-mt-noun-0wrW09PH Categories (other): Maltese entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Maltese entries with incorrect language header: 69 5 9 12 6 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 50 9 16 14 12 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 75 5 9 5 6
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Verb [Maltese]

IPA: /ˈħaː.rɛs/
Etymology: From Arabic حارَسَ (ḥārasa), rare variant of حَرَسَ (ḥarasa, “to guard, watch over, protect”), or an independent alteration of the latter. The semantic development under influence of Sicilian guardari, from Frankish *wardōn, perhaps additionally also of ussirvari, from Latin observare. Etymology templates: {{inh|mt|ar|حارَسَ}} Arabic حارَسَ (ḥārasa), {{der|mt|scn|guardari}} Sicilian guardari, {{der|mt|frk|*wardēn|*wardōn}} Frankish *wardōn, {{der|mt|la|observō|observare}} Latin observare Head templates: {{mt-verb|jħares|mħares||ħars|vn2=ħarsien}} ħares (imperfect jħares, past participle mħares, verbal noun ħars or ħarsien) Inflection templates: {{mt-conj|ħarist|ħarist|ħares|ħarset|ħarisna|ħaristu|ħarsu|nħares|tħares|jħares|tħares|nħarsu|tħarsu|jħarsu|ħares|ħarsu}} Forms: jħares [imperfect], mħares [participle, past], ħars [noun-from-verb], ħarsien [noun-from-verb], no-table-tags [table-tags], ħarist [first-person, masculine, perfect, singular], ħarist [masculine, perfect, second-person, singular], ħares [masculine, perfect, singular, third-person], ħarisna [first-person, masculine, perfect, plural], ħaristu [masculine, perfect, plural, second-person], ħarsu [masculine, perfect, plural, third-person], ħarist [feminine, first-person, perfect, singular], ħarist [feminine, perfect, second-person, singular], ħarset [feminine, perfect, singular, third-person], ħarisna [feminine, first-person, perfect, plural], ħaristu [feminine, perfect, plural, second-person], ħarsu [feminine, perfect, plural, third-person], nħares [first-person, imperfect, masculine, singular], tħares [imperfect, masculine, second-person, singular], jħares [imperfect, masculine, singular, third-person], nħarsu [first-person, imperfect, masculine, plural], tħarsu [imperfect, masculine, plural, second-person], jħarsu [imperfect, masculine, plural, third-person], nħares [feminine, first-person, imperfect, singular], tħares [feminine, imperfect, second-person, singular], tħares [feminine, imperfect, singular, third-person], nħarsu [feminine, first-person, imperfect, plural], tħarsu [feminine, imperfect, plural, second-person], jħarsu [feminine, imperfect, plural, third-person], ħares [imperative, second-person, singular], ħarsu [imperative, plural, second-person]
  1. to look; to glance
    Sense id: en-ħares-mt-verb-5k1hf8Fq
  2. to look at; to observe
    Sense id: en-ħares-mt-verb-j7QjquQh
  3. to guard; to watch over; to protect
    Sense id: en-ħares-mt-verb-rnYoXNqV
  4. to observe; to keep (e.g. a commandment)
    Sense id: en-ħares-mt-verb-m3BhZ8u9
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Inflected forms

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  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "mt",
        "2": "ar",
        "3": "حارَسَ"
      },
      "expansion": "Arabic حارَسَ (ḥārasa)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "mt",
        "2": "scn",
        "3": "guardari"
      },
      "expansion": "Sicilian guardari",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "mt",
        "2": "frk",
        "3": "*wardēn",
        "4": "*wardōn"
      },
      "expansion": "Frankish *wardōn",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "mt",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "observō",
        "4": "observare"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin observare",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Arabic حارَسَ (ḥārasa), rare variant of حَرَسَ (ḥarasa, “to guard, watch over, protect”), or an independent alteration of the latter. The semantic development under influence of Sicilian guardari, from Frankish *wardōn, perhaps additionally also of ussirvari, from Latin observare.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "jħares",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mħares",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ħars",
      "tags": [
        "noun-from-verb"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ħarsien",
      "tags": [
        "noun-from-verb"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mt-conj/III",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ħarist",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "masculine",
        "perfect",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ħarist",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "perfect",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
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        "masculine",
        "perfect",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ħarisna",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "first-person",
        "masculine",
        "perfect",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ħaristu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "perfect",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ħarsu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "perfect",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ħarist",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "first-person",
        "perfect",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ħarist",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "perfect",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ħarset",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "perfect",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ħarisna",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "first-person",
        "perfect",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ħaristu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "perfect",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ħarsu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "perfect",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nħares",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "imperfect",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tħares",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "masculine",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "jħares",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "masculine",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nħarsu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "imperfect",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tħarsu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "masculine",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "jħarsu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "masculine",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nħares",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "first-person",
        "imperfect",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tħares",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "imperfect",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tħares",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "imperfect",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nħarsu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "first-person",
        "imperfect",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tħarsu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "imperfect",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "jħarsu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "imperfect",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ħares",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ħarsu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "jħares",
        "2": "mħares",
        "3": "",
        "4": "ħars",
        "vn2": "ħarsien"
      },
      "expansion": "ħares (imperfect jħares, past participle mħares, verbal noun ħars or ħarsien)",
      "name": "mt-verb"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ħarist",
        "10": "jħares",
        "11": "tħares",
        "12": "nħarsu",
        "13": "tħarsu",
        "14": "jħarsu",
        "15": "ħares",
        "16": "ħarsu",
        "2": "ħarist",
        "3": "ħares",
        "4": "ħarset",
        "5": "ħarisna",
        "6": "ħaristu",
        "7": "ħarsu",
        "8": "nħares",
        "9": "tħares"
      },
      "name": "mt-conj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Maltese",
  "lang_code": "mt",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to look; to glance"
      ],
      "id": "en-ħares-mt-verb-5k1hf8Fq",
      "links": [
        [
          "look",
          "look"
        ],
        [
          "glance",
          "glance"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1949, Anton Buttigieg, “Fuq Qabar Oħti”, in Fanali bil-Lejl:",
          "text": "U waqt li nħares fuq ta’ qalbi x-xitla\ntat-tifkiriet tinbet tifkira ġdida,\nb’warda ta’ swied il-qalb fejn tilma demgħa\nminn ħbub għajnejja.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to look at; to observe"
      ],
      "id": "en-ħares-mt-verb-j7QjquQh",
      "links": [
        [
          "observe",
          "observe"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to guard; to watch over; to protect"
      ],
      "id": "en-ħares-mt-verb-rnYoXNqV",
      "links": [
        [
          "guard",
          "guard"
        ],
        [
          "watch over",
          "watch over"
        ],
        [
          "protect",
          "protect"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to observe; to keep (e.g. a commandment)"
      ],
      "id": "en-ħares-mt-verb-m3BhZ8u9",
      "links": [
        [
          "observe",
          "observe"
        ],
        [
          "keep",
          "keep"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈħaː.rɛs/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ħares"
}

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  "etymology_number": 2,
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "mt",
        "2": "ar",
        "3": "حارِس",
        "t": "guard, guardian"
      },
      "expansion": "Arabic حارِس (ḥāris, “guard, guardian”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ar",
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      },
      "expansion": "Arabic حَرَسة (ḥarasa)",
      "name": "m+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ar",
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        "lit": "deaf one",
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      },
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      "name": "m+"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "In the present form it should be from Arabic حارِس (ḥāris, “guard, guardian”), active participle of حَرَسَ (ḥarasa) above; quite plausibly through the idea that ghosts watch over, or haunt, certain localities. The unusual plural iħirsa (from underlying *iħrsa as in iġsma) might then be explained as continuing Arabic حَرَسة (ḥarasa). However, it is worth noting that Castagna in his history of Malta says that the peasants, even in his day, believed the ħares to be a black snake that controlled the destiny of a house’s inhabitants and therefore must never be killed. This leaves the possibility that the eventual etymon may in fact be Arabic خَرْساء (ḵarsāʔ, “viper”, literally “deaf one”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "iħirsa",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ħorsien",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ħarsijiet",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "g": "m",
        "p": "iħirsa",
        "p2": "ħorsien",
        "p3": "ħarsijiet"
      },
      "expansion": "ħares m (plural iħirsa or ħorsien or ħarsijiet)",
      "name": "mt-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Maltese",
  "lang_code": "mt",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "69 5 9 12 6",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Maltese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "50 9 16 14 12",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "75 5 9 5 6",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "ghost, spectre"
      ],
      "id": "en-ħares-mt-noun-0wrW09PH",
      "links": [
        [
          "ghost",
          "ghost"
        ],
        [
          "spectre",
          "spectre"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "waħx"
        },
        {
          "word": "fatat"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈħaː.rɛs/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ħares"
}
{
  "categories": [
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    "Maltese form-III verbs",
    "Maltese lemmas",
    "Maltese masculine nouns",
    "Maltese nouns",
    "Maltese sound form-III verbs",
    "Maltese sound verbs",
    "Maltese terms derived from Arabic",
    "Maltese terms derived from Frankish",
    "Maltese terms derived from Latin",
    "Maltese terms derived from Sicilian",
    "Maltese terms inherited from Arabic",
    "Maltese verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "mt",
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        "3": "حارَسَ"
      },
      "expansion": "Arabic حارَسَ (ḥārasa)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "mt",
        "2": "scn",
        "3": "guardari"
      },
      "expansion": "Sicilian guardari",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "mt",
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    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "mt",
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        "3": "observō",
        "4": "observare"
      },
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      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Arabic حارَسَ (ḥārasa), rare variant of حَرَسَ (ḥarasa, “to guard, watch over, protect”), or an independent alteration of the latter. The semantic development under influence of Sicilian guardari, from Frankish *wardōn, perhaps additionally also of ussirvari, from Latin observare.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "jħares",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mħares",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ħars",
      "tags": [
        "noun-from-verb"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ħarsien",
      "tags": [
        "noun-from-verb"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mt-conj/III",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ħarist",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "masculine",
        "perfect",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ħarist",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "perfect",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ħares",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "perfect",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ħarisna",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "masculine",
        "perfect",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ħaristu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "perfect",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ħarsu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "perfect",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ħarist",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "first-person",
        "perfect",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ħarist",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "perfect",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ħarset",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "perfect",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ħarisna",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "first-person",
        "perfect",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ħaristu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "perfect",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ħarsu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "perfect",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nħares",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "imperfect",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tħares",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "masculine",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "jħares",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "masculine",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nħarsu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "imperfect",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tħarsu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "masculine",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "jħarsu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "masculine",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nħares",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "first-person",
        "imperfect",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tħares",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "imperfect",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tħares",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "imperfect",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nħarsu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "first-person",
        "imperfect",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tħarsu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "imperfect",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "jħarsu",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "feminine",
        "imperfect",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ħares",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ħarsu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "jħares",
        "2": "mħares",
        "3": "",
        "4": "ħars",
        "vn2": "ħarsien"
      },
      "expansion": "ħares (imperfect jħares, past participle mħares, verbal noun ħars or ħarsien)",
      "name": "mt-verb"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ħarist",
        "10": "jħares",
        "11": "tħares",
        "12": "nħarsu",
        "13": "tħarsu",
        "14": "jħarsu",
        "15": "ħares",
        "16": "ħarsu",
        "2": "ħarist",
        "3": "ħares",
        "4": "ħarset",
        "5": "ħarisna",
        "6": "ħaristu",
        "7": "ħarsu",
        "8": "nħares",
        "9": "tħares"
      },
      "name": "mt-conj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Maltese",
  "lang_code": "mt",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to look; to glance"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "look",
          "look"
        ],
        [
          "glance",
          "glance"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Maltese terms with quotations",
        "Requests for translations of Maltese quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1949, Anton Buttigieg, “Fuq Qabar Oħti”, in Fanali bil-Lejl:",
          "text": "U waqt li nħares fuq ta’ qalbi x-xitla\ntat-tifkiriet tinbet tifkira ġdida,\nb’warda ta’ swied il-qalb fejn tilma demgħa\nminn ħbub għajnejja.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to look at; to observe"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "observe",
          "observe"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to guard; to watch over; to protect"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "guard",
          "guard"
        ],
        [
          "watch over",
          "watch over"
        ],
        [
          "protect",
          "protect"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to observe; to keep (e.g. a commandment)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "observe",
          "observe"
        ],
        [
          "keep",
          "keep"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈħaː.rɛs/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ħares"
}

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  "categories": [
    "Maltese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Maltese lemmas",
    "Maltese masculine nouns",
    "Maltese nouns",
    "Maltese terms derived from Arabic",
    "Maltese terms inherited from Arabic",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
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      "args": {
        "1": "mt",
        "2": "ar",
        "3": "حارِس",
        "t": "guard, guardian"
      },
      "expansion": "Arabic حارِس (ḥāris, “guard, guardian”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ar",
        "2": "حَرَسة"
      },
      "expansion": "Arabic حَرَسة (ḥarasa)",
      "name": "m+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ar",
        "2": "خَرْساء",
        "lit": "deaf one",
        "t": "viper"
      },
      "expansion": "Arabic خَرْساء (ḵarsāʔ, “viper”, literally “deaf one”)",
      "name": "m+"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "In the present form it should be from Arabic حارِس (ḥāris, “guard, guardian”), active participle of حَرَسَ (ḥarasa) above; quite plausibly through the idea that ghosts watch over, or haunt, certain localities. The unusual plural iħirsa (from underlying *iħrsa as in iġsma) might then be explained as continuing Arabic حَرَسة (ḥarasa). However, it is worth noting that Castagna in his history of Malta says that the peasants, even in his day, believed the ħares to be a black snake that controlled the destiny of a house’s inhabitants and therefore must never be killed. This leaves the possibility that the eventual etymon may in fact be Arabic خَرْساء (ḵarsāʔ, “viper”, literally “deaf one”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "iħirsa",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ħorsien",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ħarsijiet",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "g": "m",
        "p": "iħirsa",
        "p2": "ħorsien",
        "p3": "ħarsijiet"
      },
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      "name": "mt-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Maltese",
  "lang_code": "mt",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "ghost, spectre"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "ghost",
          "ghost"
        ],
        [
          "spectre",
          "spectre"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "waħx"
        },
        {
          "word": "fatat"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈħaː.rɛs/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ħares"
}

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