"masfa" meaning in Maltese

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        "3": "مَصْفَى",
        "lit": "place of purification"
      },
      "expansion": "Arabic مَصْفَى (maṣfā, literally “place of purification”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
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        "3": "purgatorium",
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      },
      "expansion": "calque of Latin purgatorium",
      "name": "cal"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "مَطْهَر"
      },
      "expansion": "مَطْهَر (maṭhar)",
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Arabic مَصْفَى (maṣfā, literally “place of purification”), a calque of Latin purgatorium, whence also the modern word. Arabic-speaking Catholics use مَطْهَر (maṭhar), an equivalent formation from a synonymous root.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "msafa",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "masfiet",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "p2": "masfiet"
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      "name": "mt-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Maltese",
  "lang_code": "mt",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "kind": "other",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "purgatory"
      ],
      "id": "en-masfa-mt-noun-2Q1FyepN",
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        "(Roman Catholicism, archaic) purgatory"
      ],
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        {
          "word": "purgatorju"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "obsolete"
          ],
          "word": "saffajja"
        }
      ],
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        "archaic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "Catholicism",
        "Christianity",
        "Roman-Catholicism"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmas.fa/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "masfa"
}

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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "mt",
        "2": "ar",
        "3": "مَصْفَى",
        "lit": "place of purification"
      },
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      "name": "inh"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "mt",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "purgatorium",
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      },
      "expansion": "calque of Latin purgatorium",
      "name": "cal"
    },
    {
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      },
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Arabic مَصْفَى (maṣfā, literally “place of purification”), a calque of Latin purgatorium, whence also the modern word. Arabic-speaking Catholics use مَطْهَر (maṭhar), an equivalent formation from a synonymous root.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "msafa",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "masfiet",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
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        "p": "msafa",
        "p2": "masfiet"
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    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "mt",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "Maltese terms derived from Latin",
        "Maltese terms inherited from Arabic",
        "Maltese terms with IPA pronunciation",
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          "Roman Catholicism",
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      ],
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  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmas.fa/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "masfa"
}