ħajjar

Etymology
Describing conservative accents of the early 19th century, distinguished between two verbs, one with  meaning “to allure” and one with  meaning “to let someone choose”. The contemporary thus continues. The semantic connection may be the Arabic use for “to make someone lose their head”, e.g. romantically, which developed into the notion of “alluring, tempting” in Maltese. The second verb, from, has been lost.

Verb

 * 1) to entice, to attract
 * 2) to tempt
 * 1) to tempt