* the word used for feces in Maltese language

The word has been borrowed into other languages, including Spanish, Portuguese, and Catalan cantautor, French chantauteur, Maltese kantawtur, Romanian cantautor, and Slovenian kantavtor.

Other languages may capitalize the initial letter of the orthographic word, even if it is not present in the base, as with definite nouns in Maltese that start with certain consonant clusters.

In Maltese English, home-made fireworks are called petards ( the word in Maltese, murtal, is obviously related to " mortar ").

Linguistically, Andalusian Arabic and Siculo-Arabic — and therefore its descendant Maltese — are considered Maghrebi Arabic, but when discussing modern language the word is often given a geographic definition and limited to North Africa.

The word is cognate with forms meaning ' death ' in other Semitic and Afro-Asiatic languages: with Arabic موت mawt ; with Hebrew מות ( mot or mavet ; ancient Hebrew moth or maweth ); with Maltese mewt ; with Syriac mautā ; with Ge ' ez mot ; with Canaanite, Egyptian, Berber, Aramaic, Nabataean, and Palmyrene מות ( mwt ); with Jewish Aramaic, Christian Palestinian Aramaic, and Samaritan מותא ( mwt ’); with Mandaean muta ; with Akkadian mūtu ; with Hausa mutuwa ; and with Angas mut.

The word Gżira means " island " in Maltese, and the town is named after Manoel Island which lies just adjacent to the town.

While the Maltese word " aljoli " is likely to be a loan word, the Maltese version of the sauce does not include any egg as in aioli ; instead it is based on herbs, olives, anchovies and olive oil.

Similarly, while the Maltese word " taġen " is related to " tajine " in Maltese the word refers exclusively to a metal pan.

In Icelandic the euro is called evra, a feminine noun derived from the Icelandic name of Europe, Evrópa ; this makes Icelandic ( with Faroese and Maltese ) one of only three European languages in which the word for the euro is feminine.

For example, the Maltese word for library was originally " bibljoteka ", but this has since been displaced by " librerija ", formed from the English " library ", and an Italian pattern ending.

The badge is a gold, white enamelled Maltese Cross ; the oval-shaped central medallion depicts Victoria's Royal and Imperial, " VRI " ( Victoria Regina Imperatrix ) on a red background, surrounded by a crown-surmounted blue ring bearing the word " Victoria ".

Sliem is the Maltese word meaning peace.

The name given to this village, Kalkara, comes from the Latin word calce literally meaning lime ( in Maltese ġir ), the reason for this being that in this locality lime-kilns were usually found.

Azzopardi is a Maltese surname presumed to be derived from the word Safardi.

The village's name may be derived from the Maltese word meaning delight, or it may be related to the noble family named Axiak ( also spelt Axiaq or Asciak ) which had feudal lands in the area in the fourteenth century.

Finally, in The Maltese Falcon among others, the clash between detective and police is carried to its logical conclusion: Sam Spade becomes the chief murder suspect.

The George Cross was given by King George VI himself and is now an emblem on the Maltese national flag.

* Maltese sometimes uses diacritics on some vowels to indicate stress or long vowels, but this is restricted to pronunciation assistance in dictionaries.

The Basque language of the western Pyrenees is an isolate unrelated to any other group, while Maltese is the only Semitic language in Europe with national language status.

A Spanish / Maltese false friend is guapo / a and gwapp / a respectively.

Co-written by Truman Capote, the movie is a parody of The Maltese Falcon, and is a tale of an amoral group of rogues chasing an unattainable treasure, in this instance uranium.

According to the European Union's Publication Office, in English, Irish, Latvian and Maltese texts, the ISO 4217 code is followed by a fixed space and the amount:

* 1799 – Maltese patriot Dun Mikiel Xerri, along with a number of other patriots, is executed.

Maltese ( Malti ) is the national language of Malta, and a co-official language of the country alongside English,

Maltese is descended from Siculo-Arabic ( the Arabic dialect that developed in Sicily, and later in Malta, between the end of the ninth century and the end of the thirteenth century ).

About half of the vocabulary is borrowed from standard Italian and Sicilian ; English words make up between 6 % and 20 % of the Maltese vocabulary, according to different estimates ( see below ).

In 1436, in the will of a certain Pawlu Peregrino, Maltese is first identified as lingua maltensi.

The oldest known document in Maltese is " Il Cantilena " ( Maltese: Xidew il-Qada ) a poem from the 15th century written by Pietro Caxaro, and the first known Maltese dictionary was written by the French Knight Francois de Vion Thezan Court in 1640.

This is the oldest example of printed Maltese.

Thousands of Maltese emigrants in Australia, Canada, Italy, United Kingdom, and the United States still speak the language, and in 2007 it was reported that Maltese is still spoken by descendants of Maltese immigrants in Tunisia.

Maltese is a Semitic language descended from Siculo-Arabic, that in the course of its history has been influenced by Sicilian and Italian, to a lesser extent French, and more recently English.

Due to the Sicilian influence on Siculo-Arabic, Maltese has many language contact features and is most commonly described as a language with a large number of loanwords.

Saumarez's convoy of prizes stopped first at Malta, where Saumarez provided assistance to a rebellion on the island among the Maltese population.

" Other theories include those in Johann Friedrich Breithaupt's Christliche Helden Insel Malta (), published in 1632, where he calls Maltese a mixed ' barbaric ' language and John Dryden's description of the language as ' Berber ' on his visit to the islands ( the memoirs of those journeys appeared in 1776 ).

In 2006, automated control was taken to the point where sailing can be operated by one person using a central control unit on the boat the " Maltese Falcon " a yacht built by the Silicon Valley venture capitalist Tom Perkins.

However, the city of Rabat celebrates the traditional Maltese feast on the 19th of March, where in the evening a procession is also held with the statue of St Joseph.

From 1970 to 1984, Pratt lived mainly in France where Corto Maltese, a psychologically very complex character resulting from the travel experiences and the endless inventive capacity of his author, became the main character of a comics series.

From 1984 to 1995 Pratt lived in Switzerland where the international success that Corto Maltese sparked continued to grow.

A similar development to a circumfix from double negation can be seen in non-Indo-European languages, too: for example, in Maltese, kiel " he ate " is negated as ma kielx " he didn't eat ", where the verb is preceded by a negative particle ma-" not " and followed by the particle-x, which was originally a shortened form of xejn " nothing "-thus, " he didn't eat nothing ".

Babesia parasites reproduce in red blood cells, where they can be seen as cross-shaped inclusions ( four merozoites asexually budding, but attached together forming a structure looking like a " Maltese cross ") and cause hemolytic anemia, quite similar to malaria.

The first season established the pattern where each episode made direct reference to an old movie ( for example, The Maltese Falcon and The Thomas Crowne Affair ).

In the past, and well into the 20th century, whenever the seas were too rough for the Gozitan priest to make the crossing to Comino for the celebration of Holy Mass, the local community would gather on the rocks at a part of the Island known as Tal-Ħmara, and gaze across the channel towards the Chapel of Our Lady of the Rocks ( Maltese: il-Madonna tal-Blat ), in Ħondoq ir-Rummien, Gozo, where Mass was being celebrated.

He made a major contribution to creating the Scouts Cross where he suggested combining some elements of the Maltese Cross and the Polish Virtuti Militari Order.

This contrasts sharply with the ending of The Maltese Falcon where Sam Spade solves the murder of his partner, Miles Archer.

Arabic was a major source of vocabulary for languages as diverse as Berber, spoken Indonesian, Kurdish, Malay, Maltese, Persian, Portuguese, Sindhi, Punjabi, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Turkish, Urdu, as well as other languages in countries where these languages are spoken ; a process that reached its high point in the 10th to the 14th centuries, the high point of Arabic culture, and although many of these words have fallen out of use since then, many remain.

The club again achieved promotion to Maltese Second Division in 1973 / 74, following an excellent league campaign where they held an unbeaten record, and only lost to Siggiewi in the championship decider.

Marsaxlokk won the Maltese First Division during the 2001 / 02 season, and were promoted as champions to the Maltese Premier League, where the club would appear for the first time in their history.

Despite the fact that Marsaxlokk had lost in the final of the Maltese Cup, they qualified for the first qualifying round of the UEFA Cup where they met NK Primorje of Slovenia, losing 1 – 0 at home in the first leg and 2 – 0 in Slovenia in the return leg.

Literary evenings are held occasionally, by volunteers, where famous Maltese writers are interviewed and topics of cultural interest are discussed.

This is the first year where students have different teachers for each subject but most schools have the same classroom for most of the subjects ( such as Mathematics, English, Italian, French, science, Maltese etc .).

Born into a very well respected Maltese family in Senglea, Pisani enrolled as a student at the Umberto Primo art lyceum, where he won a scholarship to study in Rome.

A presently occurring example of this is with the Maltese language, where almost all the population of Malta is bilingual in Maltese and English, and often mix the two languages in speech.

He was elected to the European Parliament in 2004 ( resigning his seat in the Maltese House of Representatives ) where he sits with the Party of European Socialists and was the first Head of Delegation for Labour MEPs from Malta.

In January 2012, Panandétiguiri signed for Maltese outfit Valletta FC, where he stayed a few months before signing with Antwerp.