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{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"english": "for what, what for, why",
"roman": "limā",
"word": "لِمَا, لِمَ"
}
],
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"2": "מָה",
"tr": "ma"
},
"expansion": "Hebrew מָה (ma)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "uga",
"2": "𐎎𐎅"
},
"expansion": "Ugaritic 𐎎𐎅 (mh)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Cognate with Hebrew מָה (ma) and Ugaritic 𐎎𐎅 (mh).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "مَا",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "mā",
"tags": [
"romanization"
]
}
],
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{
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"1": "مَا",
"2": "m"
},
"expansion": "مَا • (mā) m",
"name": "ar-pron"
}
],
"lang": "Arabic",
"lang_code": "ar",
"pos": "pron",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"what?"
],
"id": "en-ما-ar-pron-LMmlmuFO",
"links": [
[
"what",
"what"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(interrogative) what?"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "أَيّ شَيْءٍ"
},
{
"word": "أَيْشٍ"
},
{
"word": "مَاذَا"
}
],
"tags": [
"interrogative"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"some, a certain"
],
"id": "en-ما-ar-pron-NYl6NznY",
"links": [
[
"indefinite",
"indefinite"
],
[
"some",
"some"
],
[
"certain",
"certain"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(indefinite) some, a certain"
],
"tags": [
"indefinite"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"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"
},
{
"english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
"text": "سَتُبْدِي لَكَ الْأَيَّامُ مَا كُنْتَ جَاهِلًا\nsatubdī laka l-ʔayyāmu mā kunta jāhilan",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"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\n(literally, “what you fear it / what you desire it / what you find easy / what you find difficult”)",
"text": "وَلَعَلَّ مَا تَخْشَاهُ لَيْسَ بِكَائِن\nوَلَعَلَّ مَا تَرْجُوهُ سَوْفَ يَكُون\nوَلَعَلَّ مَا هَوَّنْتَ لَيْسَ بِهَيِّن\nوَلَعَلَّ مَا شَدَّدْتَ سَوْفَ يَهُون\nwa-laʕalla mā taḵšāhu laysa bikāʔin\nwa-laʕalla mā tarjūhu sawfa yakūn\nwa-laʕalla mā hawwanta laysa bihayyin\nwa-laʕalla mā šaddadta sawfa yahūn",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"that which, what"
],
"id": "en-ما-ar-pron-5sNk-P4G",
"links": [
[
"that",
"that"
],
[
"which",
"which"
],
[
"what",
"what"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(relative) that which, what"
],
"tags": [
"relative"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"english": "Whatever you do, you will be paid back for it.",
"roman": "mā tafʕal tujāza ʕalayhi",
"text": "مَا تَفْعَلْ تُجَازَ عَلَيْهِ",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"whichever; whatever"
],
"id": "en-ما-ar-pron-vPUm39Mx",
"links": [
[
"whichever",
"whichever"
],
[
"whatever",
"whatever"
]
],
"qualifier": "+ past or jussive",
"raw_glosses": [
"(+ past or jussive) whichever; whatever"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "أَيَّمَا"
},
{
"word": "مَهْمَا"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/maː/"
}
],
"word": "ما"
}
{
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"args": {
"1": "he",
"2": "מָה",
"tr": "ma"
},
"expansion": "Hebrew מָה (ma)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
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"2": "𐎎𐎅"
},
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],
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]
},
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"form": "mā",
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},
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"name": "ar-particle"
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],
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"lang_code": "ar",
"pos": "particle",
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{
"categories": [],
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{
"text": "See also: لَا, لَمْ, لَنْ, and لَيْسَ"
},
{
"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",
"text": "وَطَرٌ مَا فِيهِ مِنْ عَيْبٍ سِوَى – أَنَّهُ مَرَّ كَلَمْحِ ٱلْبَصَرِ\nwaṭarun mā fīhi min ʕaybin siwā – ʔannahu marra kalamḥi l-baṣari",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"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": "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"
}
],
"glosses": [
"not; never"
],
"id": "en-ما-ar-particle-B9gUzAz0",
"links": [
[
"not",
"not"
],
[
"never",
"never"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "إِنْ"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/maː/"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Negation in Arabic"
],
"word": "ما"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"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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},
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{
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"1": "uga",
"2": "𐎎𐎅"
},
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}
],
"etymology_text": "Cognate with Hebrew מָה (ma) and Ugaritic 𐎎𐎅 (mh).",
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{
"form": "مَا",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "mā",
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"romanization"
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}
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},
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"lang_code": "ar",
"pos": "conj",
"senses": [
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "98 2 0",
"roman": "mā dāma",
"sense": "as long as",
"word": "مَا دَامَ"
}
],
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"as long as"
],
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]
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"_dis": "0 7 1 0 43 39 1 0 8 0 1",
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},
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"Pronouns",
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],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "1 3 1 0 53 32 2 0 4 0 3",
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{
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],
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}
],
"glosses": [
"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",
"links": [
[
"مَا الزَّائِدَة",
"ما الزائدة#Arabic"
]
]
},
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{
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}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "Do you think that, after you set me alight, and you danced like Satan over my ashes,\n(literally, “do you think that, you, after [that] you burned me and 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 baʕda mā ʔaḥraqtanī wa-raqaṣta ka-š-šayṭāni fawqa rufātī",
"text": "أَتَظُنُّ أَنَّكَ بَعْدَ مَا أَحْرَقْتَنِي وَرَقَصْتَ كَٱلشَيْطَانِ فَوْقَ رُفَاتِي",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"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"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "أَنْ"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/maː/"
}
],
"word": "ما"
}
{
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"args": {
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"tr": "ma"
},
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"name": "cog"
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{
"args": {
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},
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"form": "مَا",
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},
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},
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"lang_code": "ar",
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"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"whenever"
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"id": "en-ما-ar-adv-0uRKd8Lq",
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"whenever",
"whenever"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"as far as, to the extent that, to the degree that"
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],
[
"extent",
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[
"degree",
"degree"
]
]
},
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"examples": [
{
"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"
}
],
"glosses": [
"(oh) how...!"
],
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[
"elative",
"elative"
],
[
"oh",
"oh"
],
[
"how",
"how"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(with an elative in the accusative) (oh) how...!"
],
"raw_tags": [
"with an elative in the accusative"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/maː/"
}
],
"word": "ما"
}
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"Arabic adverbs",
"Arabic conjunctions",
"Arabic entries with incorrect language header",
"Arabic entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"Arabic indefinite pronouns",
"Arabic interrogative pronouns",
"Arabic jussive particles",
"Arabic lemmas",
"Arabic negatives",
"Arabic particles",
"Arabic pronouns",
"Arabic relative pronouns",
"Arabic terms with IPA pronunciation"
],
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{
"english": "for what, what for, why",
"roman": "limā",
"word": "لِمَا, لِمَ"
}
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{
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],
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[
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"raw_glosses": [
"(interrogative) what?"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "أَيّ شَيْءٍ"
},
{
"word": "أَيْشٍ"
},
{
"word": "مَاذَا"
}
],
"tags": [
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},
{
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"some, a certain"
],
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[
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"indefinite"
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[
"some",
"some"
],
[
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],
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"(indefinite) some, a certain"
],
"tags": [
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},
{
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"Arabic terms with usage examples",
"Requests for translations of Arabic quotations"
],
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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"
},
{
"english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
"text": "سَتُبْدِي لَكَ الْأَيَّامُ مَا كُنْتَ جَاهِلًا\nsatubdī laka l-ʔayyāmu mā kunta jāhilan",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"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\n(literally, “what you fear it / what you desire it / what you find easy / what you find difficult”)",
"text": "وَلَعَلَّ مَا تَخْشَاهُ لَيْسَ بِكَائِن\nوَلَعَلَّ مَا تَرْجُوهُ سَوْفَ يَكُون\nوَلَعَلَّ مَا هَوَّنْتَ لَيْسَ بِهَيِّن\nوَلَعَلَّ مَا شَدَّدْتَ سَوْفَ يَهُون\nwa-laʕalla mā taḵšāhu laysa bikāʔin\nwa-laʕalla mā tarjūhu sawfa yakūn\nwa-laʕalla mā hawwanta laysa bihayyin\nwa-laʕalla mā šaddadta sawfa yahūn",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"that which, what"
],
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[
"that",
"that"
],
[
"which",
"which"
],
[
"what",
"what"
]
],
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"(relative) that which, what"
],
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"relative"
]
},
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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"
}
],
"glosses": [
"whichever; whatever"
],
"links": [
[
"whichever",
"whichever"
],
[
"whatever",
"whatever"
]
],
"qualifier": "+ past or jussive",
"raw_glosses": [
"(+ past or jussive) whichever; whatever"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "أَيَّمَا"
},
{
"word": "مَهْمَا"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/maː/"
}
],
"word": "ما"
}
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"Arabic adverbs",
"Arabic conjunctions",
"Arabic entries with incorrect language header",
"Arabic entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"Arabic indefinite pronouns",
"Arabic interrogative pronouns",
"Arabic jussive particles",
"Arabic lemmas",
"Arabic negatives",
"Arabic particles",
"Arabic pronouns",
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"Arabic terms with IPA pronunciation"
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"examples": [
{
"text": "See also: لَا, لَمْ, لَنْ, and لَيْسَ"
},
{
"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",
"text": "وَطَرٌ مَا فِيهِ مِنْ عَيْبٍ سِوَى – أَنَّهُ مَرَّ كَلَمْحِ ٱلْبَصَرِ\nwaṭarun mā fīhi min ʕaybin siwā – ʔannahu marra kalamḥi l-baṣari",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"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": "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"
}
],
"glosses": [
"not; never"
],
"links": [
[
"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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"Arabic conjunctions",
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"Arabic entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"Arabic indefinite pronouns",
"Arabic interrogative pronouns",
"Arabic jussive particles",
"Arabic lemmas",
"Arabic negatives",
"Arabic particles",
"Arabic pronouns",
"Arabic relative pronouns",
"Arabic terms with IPA pronunciation"
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"derived": [
{
"roman": "mā dāma",
"sense": "as long as",
"word": "مَا دَامَ"
},
{
"roman": "baʕdamā",
"word": "بَعْدَمَا"
},
{
"roman": "ʕindamā",
"word": "عِنْدَمَا"
},
{
"roman": "ḥīnamā",
"word": "حِينَمَا"
},
{
"roman": "kamā",
"word": "كَمَا"
}
],
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"A subordinating conjunction following particles or genitival nouns in conditional statements, known as مَا الزَّائِدَة (mā z-zāʔida), 'superfluous mā'"
],
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{
"english": "Do you think that, after you set me alight, and you danced like Satan over my ashes,\n(literally, “do you think that, you, after [that] you burned me and 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 baʕda mā ʔaḥraqtanī wa-raqaṣta ka-š-šayṭāni fawqa rufātī",
"text": "أَتَظُنُّ أَنَّكَ بَعْدَ مَا أَحْرَقْتَنِي وَرَقَصْتَ كَٱلشَيْطَانِ فَوْقَ رُفَاتِي",
"type": "quotation"
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],
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"loosely translates to that; introduces a verbal complement to a preposition, standing in place of the definite verbal noun"
],
"links": [
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"that",
"that#English"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "أَنْ"
}
]
}
],
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"ipa": "/maː/"
}
],
"word": "ما"
}
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"Arabic adverbs",
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"Arabic entries with incorrect language header",
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"Arabic indefinite pronouns",
"Arabic interrogative pronouns",
"Arabic jussive particles",
"Arabic lemmas",
"Arabic negatives",
"Arabic particles",
"Arabic pronouns",
"Arabic relative pronouns",
"Arabic terms with IPA pronunciation"
],
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"args": {
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"2": "𐎎𐎅"
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],
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"forms": [
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"whenever"
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},
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"glosses": [
"as far as, to the extent that, to the degree that"
],
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],
[
"extent",
"extent"
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"degree",
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"categories": [
"Arabic terms with usage examples"
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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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[
"elative",
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[
"oh",
"oh"
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[
"how",
"how"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(with an elative in the accusative) (oh) how...!"
],
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]
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],
"sounds": [
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"ipa": "/maː/"
}
],
"word": "ما"
}
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