See ما in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"english": "perhaps, maybe",
"roman": "rubbamā",
"word": "رُبَّمَا, رُبَمَا"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"english": "for what, what for, why",
"roman": "limā",
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}
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"glosses": [
"what?"
],
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[
"what",
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"(interrogative) what?"
],
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"word": "أَيّ شَيْءٍ"
},
{
"word": "أَيْشٍ"
},
{
"word": "مَاذَا"
}
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{
"english": "Indeed, God is not timid to present an example: that of a mosquito or what is smaller than it.",
"ref": "609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:26:",
"roman": "ʔinna l-laha lā yastaḥyī ʔan yaḍriba maṯalan mā baʕūḍatan famā fawqahā",
"text": "إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ لَا يَسْتَحْيِي أَنْ يَضْرِبَ مَثَلًا مَا بَعُوضَةً فَمَا فَوْقَهَا",
"type": "quote"
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"some, a certain"
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[
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[
"some",
"some"
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[
"certain",
"certain"
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"(indefinite) some, a certain"
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{
"english": "Read what I wrote.",
"roman": "iqraʔ mā katabtu.",
"text": "اِقْرَأْ مَا كَتَبْتُ.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "Whatever you do, you are paid back for it.",
"roman": "mā tafʕalu tujāzā ʕalayhi",
"text": "مَا تَفْعَلُ تُجَازَى عَلَيْهِ",
"type": "example"
},
{
"roman": "satubdī laka l-ʔayyāmu mā kunta jāhilan",
"text": "سَتُبْدِي لَكَ الْأَيَّامُ مَا كُنْتَ جَاهِلًا",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "And maybe what you’re afraid of isn't existent\nAnd maybe what you desire is going to be\nAnd maybe what you deem easy isn’t convenient\nAnd maybe what you find difficult will be of ease",
"roman": "wa-laʕalla mā taḵšāhu laysa bikāʔin\n wa-laʕalla mā tarjūhu sawfa yakūn\n wa-laʕalla mā hawwanta laysa bihayyin\n wa-laʕalla mā šaddadta sawfa yahūn",
"text": "وَلَعَلَّ مَا تَخْشَاهُ لَيْسَ بِكَائِن\n وَلَعَلَّ مَا تَرْجُوهُ سَوْفَ يَكُون\n وَلَعَلَّ مَا هَوَّنْتَ لَيْسَ بِهَيِّن\n وَلَعَلَّ مَا شَدَّدْتَ سَوْفَ يَهُون",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"that which, what"
],
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[
"that",
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],
[
"which",
"which"
],
[
"what",
"what"
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"(relative) that which, what"
],
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]
},
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{
"english": "Whatever you do, you will be paid back for it.",
"roman": "mā tafʕal tujāza ʕalayhi",
"text": "مَا تَفْعَلْ تُجَازَ عَلَيْهِ",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "Whatever we abrogate that is a passage or make people forget, we come up with others that are better than or just like it.",
"ref": "609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:106:",
"roman": "mā nansaḵ min ʔāyatin ʔaw nunsihā naʔti biḵayrin minhā ʔaw miṯlihā",
"text": "مَا نَنْسَخْ مِنْ آيَةٍ أَوْ نُنْسِهَا نَأْتِ بِخَيْرٍ مِنْهَا أَوْ مِثْلِهَا",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"english": "Whatever you do that is good, God learns about it.",
"ref": "609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:197:",
"roman": "wamā tafʕalū min ḵayrin yaʕlamhu llāhu",
"text": "وَمَا تَفْعَلُوا مِنْ خَيْرٍ يَعْلَمْهُ اللَّٰهُ",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"whichever; whatever"
],
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[
"whichever",
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[
"whatever",
"whatever"
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],
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"(+ past or jussive) whichever; whatever"
],
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{
"word": "أَيَّمَا"
},
{
"word": "مَهْمَا"
}
]
}
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}
],
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"text": "See also: لَا, لَمْ, لَنْ, and لَيْسَ"
},
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"english": "The wish that is without a mistake except that it passed like a glance of the eye.",
"ref": "a. 1374, Ibn al-Khatib, Zaman Al-Wasl:",
"roman": "waṭarun mā fīhi min ʕaybin siwā – ʔannahu marra kalamḥi l-baṣari",
"text": "وَطَرٌ مَا فِيهِ مِنْ عَيْبٍ سِوَى – أَنَّهُ مَرَّ كَلَمْحِ ٱلْبَصَرِ",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"english": "He never wrote.",
"roman": "mā kataba.",
"text": "مَا كَتَبَ.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "He is not dead.",
"roman": "mā huwa bimayyitin.",
"text": "مَا هُوَ بِمَيِّتٍ.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "There is no thing that is more lovely, to me, than that!",
"roman": "mā šayʔun ʔaḥabba ʔiliyya minhu.",
"text": "مَا شَيْءٌ أَحَبَّ إِلِيَّ مِنْهُ.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "They are two places, people have none other than them * So look for yourself, which one will you choose?",
"text": "هُمَا مَحَلَّانِ مَا لِلنَّاسِ غَيْرُهُمَـا فَانـْظُرْ لِنَفْسِك مَاذَا أَنْتَ مُخْتَارُ",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "There is none like him.",
"roman": "mā ʔaḥadun miṯluhu.",
"text": "مَا أَحَدٌ مِثْلُهُ.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "There is nobody in that house.",
"roman": "mā min ʔinsānin fī l-bayti.",
"text": "مَا مِنْ إِنْسَانٍ فِي الْبَيْتِ.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "I cannot see a thing!",
"roman": "mā ʔarā šayʔan.",
"text": "مَا أَرَى شَيْئًا.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "No one would do that but the bold.",
"roman": "mā yafʕalu ḏālika ʔillā šujāʕun.",
"text": "مَا يَفْعَلُ ذٰلِكَ إِلَّا شُجَاعٌ.",
"type": "example"
}
],
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"not; never"
],
"id": "en-ما-ar-particle-B9gUzAz0",
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[
"not",
"not"
],
[
"never",
"never"
]
],
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{
"word": "إِنْ"
}
]
}
],
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"ipa": "/maː/"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Negation in Arabic"
],
"word": "ما"
}
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"roman": "baʕdamā",
"word": "بَعْدَمَا"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"roman": "ʕindamā",
"word": "عِنْدَمَا"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"roman": "ḥīnamā",
"word": "حِينَمَا"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"roman": "kamā",
"word": "كَمَا"
}
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"word": "مَا دَامَ"
}
],
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{
"english": "So as long as they are straight with you, be straight with them.",
"ref": "609–632 CE, Qur'an, 9:7:",
"roman": "fa-mā staqāmū lakum fa-staqīmū lahum",
"text": "فَمَا ٱسْتَقَامُوا لَكُمْ فَٱسْتَقِيمُوا لَهُمْ",
"type": "quote"
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"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
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"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
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{
"english": "[…] And let not the witnesses refuse when they are called upon. […]",
"ref": "609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:282:",
"roman": "[…] walā yaʔba š-šuhadāʔu ʔiḏā mā duʕū […]",
"text": "[…] وَلَا يَأْبَ ٱلشُّهَدَاءُ إِذَا مَا دُعُوا […]",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"A subordinating conjunction following particles or genitival nouns in conditional statements, known as مَا الزَّائِدَة (mā z-zāʔida), 'superfluous mā'"
],
"id": "en-ما-ar-conj-MfzjuO2O",
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]
},
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},
{
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"Indefinite pro-forms",
"Pronouns",
"Pro-forms",
"Lemmas",
"Terms by semantic function"
],
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},
{
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"Interrogative pro-forms",
"Pronouns",
"Pro-forms",
"Lemmas",
"Terms by semantic function"
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"source": "w+disamb"
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{
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"source": "w+disamb"
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{
"_dis": "1 18 3 0 19 40 5 0 7 0 6",
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"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "1 9 2 0 40 38 3 0 5 0 3",
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"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
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"source": "w+disamb"
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{
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"Relative pro-forms",
"Lemmas",
"Pro-forms",
"Terms by semantic function"
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},
{
"_dis": "0 2 0 0 8 14 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 2 8 16 7 11 2 18 4 1",
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"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
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{
"english": "And they will suffer a painful punishment, as they used to lie.",
"ref": "609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:10:",
"roman": "wa-lahum ʕaḏābun ʔalīmun bi-mā kānū yakḏibūna",
"text": "وَلَهُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ بِمَا كَانُوا يَكْذِبُونَ",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"english": "Do you think that, after you set me alight, and you danced like Satan over my ashes",
"ref": "2017, 0:35 from the start, in أَتَظُنُّ أَنَّكَ عِنْدَمَا أَحْرَقْتَنِي [ʔataẓunnu ʔannaka ʕindamā ʔaḥraqtanī], مُهَذِّل الصُّقُور (muhaḏḏil aṣ-ṣuqūr) (actor):",
"roman": "ʔataẓunnu ʔannaka ʕindamā ʔaḥraqtanī",
"text": "أَتَظُنُّ أَنَّكَ بَعْدَ مَا أَحْرَقْتَنِي وَرَقَصْتَ كَٱلشَيْطَانِ فَوْقَ رُفَاتِي",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"loosely translates to that; introduces a verbal complement to a preposition, standing in place of the definite verbal noun"
],
"id": "en-ما-ar-conj-zPEDQuWX",
"links": [
[
"that",
"that#English"
]
],
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{
"word": "أَنْ"
}
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/maː/"
}
],
"word": "ما"
}
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"2": "מָה",
"tr": "ma"
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"2": "𐎎𐎅"
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"whenever"
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[
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"whenever"
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},
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"as far as, to the extent that, to the degree that"
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"extent"
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[
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"degree"
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},
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{
"english": "How beautiful life is!",
"roman": "mā ʔajmala l-ḥayāta!",
"text": "مَا أَجْمَلَ ٱلْحَيَاةَ!",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "How delicious the food is!",
"roman": "mā ʔalaḏḏa ṭ-ṭaʕāma!",
"text": "مَا أَلَذَّ ٱلطَّعَامَ!",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "How great you are!",
"roman": "mā ʔaʕẓamaka!",
"text": "مَا أَعْظَمَكَ!",
"type": "example"
}
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"(oh) how...!"
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[
"oh",
"oh"
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"how",
"how"
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"(with an elative in the accusative) (oh) how...!"
],
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"Arabic jussive particles",
"Arabic lemmas",
"Arabic negatives",
"Arabic particles",
"Arabic pronouns",
"Arabic relative pronouns",
"Arabic terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Pages with 10 entries",
"Pages with entries"
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{
"english": "perhaps, maybe",
"roman": "rubbamā",
"word": "رُبَّمَا, رُبَمَا"
},
{
"english": "for what, what for, why",
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"word": "لِمَا, لِمَ"
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"word": "أَيْشٍ"
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"english": "Indeed, God is not timid to present an example: that of a mosquito or what is smaller than it.",
"ref": "609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:26:",
"roman": "ʔinna l-laha lā yastaḥyī ʔan yaḍriba maṯalan mā baʕūḍatan famā fawqahā",
"text": "إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ لَا يَسْتَحْيِي أَنْ يَضْرِبَ مَثَلًا مَا بَعُوضَةً فَمَا فَوْقَهَا",
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"roman": "iqraʔ mā katabtu.",
"text": "اِقْرَأْ مَا كَتَبْتُ.",
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},
{
"english": "Whatever you do, you are paid back for it.",
"roman": "mā tafʕalu tujāzā ʕalayhi",
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{
"roman": "satubdī laka l-ʔayyāmu mā kunta jāhilan",
"text": "سَتُبْدِي لَكَ الْأَيَّامُ مَا كُنْتَ جَاهِلًا",
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{
"english": "And maybe what you’re afraid of isn't existent\nAnd maybe what you desire is going to be\nAnd maybe what you deem easy isn’t convenient\nAnd maybe what you find difficult will be of ease",
"roman": "wa-laʕalla mā taḵšāhu laysa bikāʔin\n wa-laʕalla mā tarjūhu sawfa yakūn\n wa-laʕalla mā hawwanta laysa bihayyin\n wa-laʕalla mā šaddadta sawfa yahūn",
"text": "وَلَعَلَّ مَا تَخْشَاهُ لَيْسَ بِكَائِن\n وَلَعَلَّ مَا تَرْجُوهُ سَوْفَ يَكُون\n وَلَعَلَّ مَا هَوَّنْتَ لَيْسَ بِهَيِّن\n وَلَعَلَّ مَا شَدَّدْتَ سَوْفَ يَهُون",
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"english": "Whatever you do, you will be paid back for it.",
"roman": "mā tafʕal tujāza ʕalayhi",
"text": "مَا تَفْعَلْ تُجَازَ عَلَيْهِ",
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{
"english": "Whatever we abrogate that is a passage or make people forget, we come up with others that are better than or just like it.",
"ref": "609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:106:",
"roman": "mā nansaḵ min ʔāyatin ʔaw nunsihā naʔti biḵayrin minhā ʔaw miṯlihā",
"text": "مَا نَنْسَخْ مِنْ آيَةٍ أَوْ نُنْسِهَا نَأْتِ بِخَيْرٍ مِنْهَا أَوْ مِثْلِهَا",
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{
"english": "Whatever you do that is good, God learns about it.",
"ref": "609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:197:",
"roman": "wamā tafʕalū min ḵayrin yaʕlamhu llāhu",
"text": "وَمَا تَفْعَلُوا مِنْ خَيْرٍ يَعْلَمْهُ اللَّٰهُ",
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"word": "مَهْمَا"
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},
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"english": "The wish that is without a mistake except that it passed like a glance of the eye.",
"ref": "a. 1374, Ibn al-Khatib, Zaman Al-Wasl:",
"roman": "waṭarun mā fīhi min ʕaybin siwā – ʔannahu marra kalamḥi l-baṣari",
"text": "وَطَرٌ مَا فِيهِ مِنْ عَيْبٍ سِوَى – أَنَّهُ مَرَّ كَلَمْحِ ٱلْبَصَرِ",
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{
"english": "He never wrote.",
"roman": "mā kataba.",
"text": "مَا كَتَبَ.",
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{
"english": "He is not dead.",
"roman": "mā huwa bimayyitin.",
"text": "مَا هُوَ بِمَيِّتٍ.",
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{
"english": "There is no thing that is more lovely, to me, than that!",
"roman": "mā šayʔun ʔaḥabba ʔiliyya minhu.",
"text": "مَا شَيْءٌ أَحَبَّ إِلِيَّ مِنْهُ.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "They are two places, people have none other than them * So look for yourself, which one will you choose?",
"text": "هُمَا مَحَلَّانِ مَا لِلنَّاسِ غَيْرُهُمَـا فَانـْظُرْ لِنَفْسِك مَاذَا أَنْتَ مُخْتَارُ",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "There is none like him.",
"roman": "mā ʔaḥadun miṯluhu.",
"text": "مَا أَحَدٌ مِثْلُهُ.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "There is nobody in that house.",
"roman": "mā min ʔinsānin fī l-bayti.",
"text": "مَا مِنْ إِنْسَانٍ فِي الْبَيْتِ.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "I cannot see a thing!",
"roman": "mā ʔarā šayʔan.",
"text": "مَا أَرَى شَيْئًا.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "No one would do that but the bold.",
"roman": "mā yafʕalu ḏālika ʔillā šujāʕun.",
"text": "مَا يَفْعَلُ ذٰلِكَ إِلَّا شُجَاعٌ.",
"type": "example"
}
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"glosses": [
"not; never"
],
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[
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"word": "إِنْ"
}
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"ipa": "/maː/"
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"wikipedia": [
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"roman": "mā dāma",
"sense": "as long as",
"word": "مَا دَامَ"
},
{
"roman": "baʕdamā",
"word": "بَعْدَمَا"
},
{
"roman": "ʕindamā",
"word": "عِنْدَمَا"
},
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"roman": "ḥīnamā",
"word": "حِينَمَا"
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"roman": "kamā",
"word": "كَمَا"
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"english": "So as long as they are straight with you, be straight with them.",
"ref": "609–632 CE, Qur'an, 9:7:",
"roman": "fa-mā staqāmū lakum fa-staqīmū lahum",
"text": "فَمَا ٱسْتَقَامُوا لَكُمْ فَٱسْتَقِيمُوا لَهُمْ",
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"english": "[…] And let not the witnesses refuse when they are called upon. […]",
"ref": "609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:282:",
"roman": "[…] walā yaʔba š-šuhadāʔu ʔiḏā mā duʕū […]",
"text": "[…] وَلَا يَأْبَ ٱلشُّهَدَاءُ إِذَا مَا دُعُوا […]",
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{
"english": "And they will suffer a painful punishment, as they used to lie.",
"ref": "609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:10:",
"roman": "wa-lahum ʕaḏābun ʔalīmun bi-mā kānū yakḏibūna",
"text": "وَلَهُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ بِمَا كَانُوا يَكْذِبُونَ",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"english": "Do you think that, after you set me alight, and you danced like Satan over my ashes",
"ref": "2017, 0:35 from the start, in أَتَظُنُّ أَنَّكَ عِنْدَمَا أَحْرَقْتَنِي [ʔataẓunnu ʔannaka ʕindamā ʔaḥraqtanī], مُهَذِّل الصُّقُور (muhaḏḏil aṣ-ṣuqūr) (actor):",
"roman": "ʔataẓunnu ʔannaka ʕindamā ʔaḥraqtanī",
"text": "أَتَظُنُّ أَنَّكَ بَعْدَ مَا أَحْرَقْتَنِي وَرَقَصْتَ كَٱلشَيْطَانِ فَوْقَ رُفَاتِي",
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"that",
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"word": "أَنْ"
}
]
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"ipa": "/maː/"
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"word": "ما"
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"whenever"
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"as far as, to the extent that, to the degree that"
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"english": "How beautiful life is!",
"roman": "mā ʔajmala l-ḥayāta!",
"text": "مَا أَجْمَلَ ٱلْحَيَاةَ!",
"type": "example"
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{
"english": "How delicious the food is!",
"roman": "mā ʔalaḏḏa ṭ-ṭaʕāma!",
"text": "مَا أَلَذَّ ٱلطَّعَامَ!",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "How great you are!",
"roman": "mā ʔaʕẓamaka!",
"text": "مَا أَعْظَمَكَ!",
"type": "example"
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"(oh) how...!"
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"(with an elative in the accusative) (oh) how...!"
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}
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