verb. form 7.
Inherited from Standard Arabic استأنى.
General Palestinian
istanna — /istanna/ [(ʔ)ɪsˈtan.na]
play
1
[noPatient] unergative
to wait
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Editor's Note
Morphologically like a 7B verb, spelled with a gemination mark for the doubled consonant. What makes this verb irregular is that there is no vowel inversion in the Present Root.
— Rfí Adrian (permanent.intifada)
ن ن ي
(n n y)