Meaning of żamm | Babel Free

Definitions

1. to keep, hold
2. to stop
3. to follow, keep
4. to consider, deem
5. to sustain
6. to restrain oneself
7. to look after one's appearance
8. to think highly of
9. to become pregnant
10. to cease (rain)
11. to stop (someone) from doing (something)
12. to last
13. to detain

Examples

“Ħarbat, mewwet dawk id-dwieli, wild il-għaraq tal-ħaddiem, żomm il-fqir ġol-gorboġ waħdu, u bla ħobż, bla dawl, bla sliem!”

Destroy, kill those vines, the offspring of the worker’s sweat, keep the poor man in the hovel alone, without bread, without light, without peace!

“Iżżommha”

She looks after her appearance.

“Iżommha”

He looks after his appearance.

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