أما
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أما¹
- /ʔam.maː/
Where it comes from
Univerbation of أَن (ʔan, “that”) + مَا (mā, relative), the original thought being “that this matter be touched”, “be it that”, or just a dialectal variant of disjunctive إِمَّا (ʔimmā, “be it that”) as أَمَّا (ʔammā) can well be used for positing two alternatives.
conjunction أَمَّا · ʔammā
- as for; followed by a noun or pronoun, itself followed by the particle فَـ (fa-) إِنَّ سَعْيَكُمْ لَشَتَّى فَأَمَّا مَنْ أَعْطَى وَٱتَّقَى وَصَدَّقَ بِٱلْحُسْنَى فَسَنُيَسِّرُهُ لِلْيُسْرَى وَأَمَّا مَن بَخِلَ وَٱسْتَغْنَى وَكَذَّبَ بِٱلْحُسْنَى فَسَنُيَسِّرُهُ لِلْعُسْرَى
أما²
- /ʔa.maː/
Where it comes from
From أَ (ʔa) + مَا (mā).
particle أَمَا · ʔamā
-
verily, truly, indeed, oh yes!
Similar: أَلَا
أما³
- /ʔa.maː/
verb أَمَا · ʔamā · يَأْمُو · أُمَاء · إِمَاء
- to meow (esp. of she-cat)
In English
- meanwhile during the time something is happening
- as regards regarding
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