"ma" meaning in Maltese

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      "expansion": "Arabic مَا (mā, “not”)",
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  "etymology_text": "From Arabic مَا (mā, “not”).",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "I do not drink today.",
          "text": "Illum ma nixrobx."
        },
        {
          "english": "I never drink. / I do not ever drink.",
          "text": "Qatt ma nixrob."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Trevor Żahra, Il-Ġenn li Jżommni f’Sikti, Merlin Publishers, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Kulħadd jibża’ u ħadd ma jabbuża jmissu!",
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        "not; used to negate verbs and pronominal adverbs"
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    {
      "ipa": "/maː/"
    },
    {
      "other": "/ma/"
    },
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      "homophone": "ma’"
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  "word": "ma"
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "bħalma"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
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  "etymology_text": "From Arabic مَا (mā, “what”).",
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  "pos": "pron",
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          "extra": "(“who, which, that”), used in some fossiled expressions",
          "word": "li"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "(literally, “The first that eats is the eye.”)",
          "roman": "You eat with your eyes first.",
          "text": "L-ewwel ma tiekol, l-għajn."
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        "(relative) Alternative form of li (“who, which, that”), used in some fossiled expressions"
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          "english": "I saw the Sultana [a captured Turkish ship]. And how big and how beautiful she is! But is a pity, because they say she will go back to where she came from.",
          "ref": "ca. 1760, G.P.F. Agius de Soldanis, Discorso tra due contadini sopra le nuove correnti:",
          "roman": "Rajt is-Sultana. U ma akbar u ma isbaħ ma hi! Imma tħalli ħasra, għaliex jingħad li terġa’ mnejn ġiet.",
          "text": "Rait e Sultana, u makbar u mesbahh ma hi, ma t challi hhasra, ghaliesc i enghat li t-arga mnein giet.",
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        "how (as in “how beautiful is...”)"
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        "(obsolete, with comparative adjective) how (as in “how beautiful is...”)"
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        {
          "word": "kemm"
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      "ipa": "/maː/"
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    {
      "other": "/ma/"
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    {
      "homophone": "ma’"
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  "word": "ma"
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        {
          "english": "I do not drink today.",
          "text": "Illum ma nixrobx."
        },
        {
          "english": "I never drink. / I do not ever drink.",
          "text": "Qatt ma nixrob."
        },
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          "ref": "2008, Trevor Żahra, Il-Ġenn li Jżommni f’Sikti, Merlin Publishers, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Kulħadd jibża’ u ħadd ma jabbuża jmissu!",
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      "ipa": "/maː/"
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    {
      "other": "/ma/"
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      "homophone": "ma’"
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  "word": "ma"
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    {
      "word": "bħalma"
    },
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      "word": "kulma"
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          "word": "li"
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        {
          "english": "(literally, “The first that eats is the eye.”)",
          "roman": "You eat with your eyes first.",
          "text": "L-ewwel ma tiekol, l-għajn."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of li (“who, which, that”), used in some fossiled expressions"
      ],
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          "english": "I saw the Sultana [a captured Turkish ship]. And how big and how beautiful she is! But is a pity, because they say she will go back to where she came from.",
          "ref": "ca. 1760, G.P.F. Agius de Soldanis, Discorso tra due contadini sopra le nuove correnti:",
          "roman": "Rajt is-Sultana. U ma akbar u ma isbaħ ma hi! Imma tħalli ħasra, għaliex jingħad li terġa’ mnejn ġiet.",
          "text": "Rait e Sultana, u makbar u mesbahh ma hi, ma t challi hhasra, ghaliesc i enghat li t-arga mnein giet.",
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        "how (as in “how beautiful is...”)"
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        "(obsolete, with comparative adjective) how (as in “how beautiful is...”)"
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        {
          "word": "kemm"
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      "ipa": "/maː/"
    },
    {
      "other": "/ma/"
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      "homophone": "ma’"
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  "word": "ma"
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