"medda" meaning in Maltese

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        "3": "مُدَّة",
        "t": "while, length of time"
      },
      "expansion": "Arabic مُدَّة (mudda, “while, length of time”)",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Arabic مُدَّة (mudda, “while, length of time”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "meded",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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        "g": "f",
        "p": "meded"
      },
      "expansion": "medda f (plural meded)",
      "name": "mt-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Maltese",
  "lang_code": "mt",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "source": "w"
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Over a length of ten years she broke several world records.",
          "text": "F’medda ta’ għaxar snin kisret diversi rekords dinjin."
        },
        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "2022, Alfred Massa, Il-Ħarba, Horizons, page 6",
          "text": "Sadattant, mal-medda tas-snin dan l-antagoniżmu anti-Semitiku baqa’ dejjem jiżdied, anki fost il-Ġermaniżi.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a length, stretch (of time or space)"
      ],
      "id": "en-medda-mt-noun-mNd-ZjdY",
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          "length",
          "length"
        ],
        [
          "stretch",
          "stretch"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmɛd.da/"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "meddha"
    }
  ],
  "word": "medda"
}

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        "3": "مُدَّة",
        "t": "while, length of time"
      },
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      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Arabic مُدَّة (mudda, “while, length of time”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "meded",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "g": "f",
        "p": "meded"
      },
      "expansion": "medda f (plural meded)",
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "Maltese",
  "lang_code": "mt",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Over a length of ten years she broke several world records.",
          "text": "F’medda ta’ għaxar snin kisret diversi rekords dinjin."
        },
        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "2022, Alfred Massa, Il-Ħarba, Horizons, page 6",
          "text": "Sadattant, mal-medda tas-snin dan l-antagoniżmu anti-Semitiku baqa’ dejjem jiżdied, anki fost il-Ġermaniżi.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a length, stretch (of time or space)"
      ],
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          "length",
          "length"
        ],
        [
          "stretch",
          "stretch"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmɛd.da/"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "meddha"
    }
  ],
  "word": "medda"
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