Quote Originally Posted by Reno Melitensis
'Qadim' in maltese is used to describe old thinqs, for example, an old chair = siggu qadim. For people we use 'xih', an old man, or we say 'ghandu hafna zmien', ghandu=he has, hafna=many, zmien=years.

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indeed maltese is related to my dialect of arabic...(palestinian arabic to left.)

adeem=qadim

shekh=xih (how is x pronounced here?)

3indo=ghandu

hifne=hafna (in palestinnian=buch, or clump)

zman=zmien (palestinian=time, age)