"كأنما" meaning in Arabic

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        "2": "كَأَنَّ",
        "3": "مَا"
      },
      "expansion": "كَأَنَّ (kaʔanna) + مَا (mā)",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "كَأَنَّ (kaʔanna) + مَا (mā).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "كَأَنَّمَا",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kaʔannamā",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "كَأَنَّمَا"
      },
      "expansion": "كَأَنَّمَا • (kaʔannamā)",
      "name": "ar-con"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Arabic",
  "lang_code": "ar",
  "pos": "conj",
  "senses": [
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Arabic entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
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          "source": "w"
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          "source": "w"
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          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "...whoever kills a soul unless for a soul or for corruption done in the land – it is as if he had slain mankind entirely. And whoever saves one – it is as if he had saved mankind entirely...",
          "ref": "609–632 CE, Qur'an, 5:32:",
          "roman": "[…] man qatala nafsan biḡayri nafsin ʔaw fasādin fī l-ʔarḍi fa-kaʔannamā qatala n-nāsa jamīʕan wa-man ʔaḥyāhā fa-kaʔannamā ʔaḥyā n-nāsa jamīʕan […]",
          "text": "[…] مَنْ قَتَلَ نَفْسًا بِغَيْرِ نَفْسٍ أَوْ فَسَادٍ فِي ٱلْأَرْضِ فَكَأَنَّمَا قَتَلَ ٱلنَّاسَ جَمِيعًا وَمَنْ أَحْيَاهَا فَكَأَنَّمَا أَحْيَا ٱلنَّاسَ جَمِيعًا […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "as if, as though"
      ],
      "id": "en-كأنما-ar-conj-NfEdAeOw",
      "links": [
        [
          "as if",
          "as if"
        ],
        [
          "as though",
          "as though"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "كأنما"
}

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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ar",
        "2": "كَأَنَّ",
        "3": "مَا"
      },
      "expansion": "كَأَنَّ (kaʔanna) + مَا (mā)",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "كَأَنَّ (kaʔanna) + مَا (mā).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "كَأَنَّمَا",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kaʔannamā",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "كَأَنَّمَا"
      },
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      "name": "ar-con"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Arabic",
  "lang_code": "ar",
  "pos": "conj",
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "...whoever kills a soul unless for a soul or for corruption done in the land – it is as if he had slain mankind entirely. And whoever saves one – it is as if he had saved mankind entirely...",
          "ref": "609–632 CE, Qur'an, 5:32:",
          "roman": "[…] man qatala nafsan biḡayri nafsin ʔaw fasādin fī l-ʔarḍi fa-kaʔannamā qatala n-nāsa jamīʕan wa-man ʔaḥyāhā fa-kaʔannamā ʔaḥyā n-nāsa jamīʕan […]",
          "text": "[…] مَنْ قَتَلَ نَفْسًا بِغَيْرِ نَفْسٍ أَوْ فَسَادٍ فِي ٱلْأَرْضِ فَكَأَنَّمَا قَتَلَ ٱلنَّاسَ جَمِيعًا وَمَنْ أَحْيَاهَا فَكَأَنَّمَا أَحْيَا ٱلنَّاسَ جَمِيعًا […]",
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      "glosses": [
        "as if, as though"
      ],
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          "as if"
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          "as though",
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  "word": "كأنما"
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