"מה" meaning in Yiddish

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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "yi",
        "2": "he",
        "3": "מה"
      },
      "expansion": "Hebrew מה",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Hebrew מה.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ma",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "tr": "ma"
      },
      "expansion": "מה • (ma)",
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  ],
  "lang": "Yiddish",
  "lang_code": "yi",
  "pos": "pron",
  "senses": [
    {
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      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "\"Who are we (and) what is our life?\"",
          "ref": "1998, Steven A. Jacobson, quotee, A Guide to the More Common Hebraic Words in Yiddish, Fairbanks, AK, page 99:",
          "roman": "\"ma anu ma khayeynu\"",
          "text": "\"מה אַנו מה חײנו?“",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "english": "\"So what? What does it matter?\"",
          "ref": "1998, Steven A. Jacobson, quotee, A Guide to the More Common Hebraic Words in Yiddish, Fairbanks, AK, page 99:",
          "roman": "\"ma bekakh\"",
          "text": "“מה בכּך?“",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "what?"
      ],
      "id": "en-מה-yi-pron-LMmlmuFO",
      "links": [
        [
          "what",
          "what"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(interrogative) what?"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "וואָס"
        }
      ],
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        "interrogative"
      ]
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            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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        },
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          "_dis": "4 96",
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        "how?"
      ],
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        [
          "how",
          "how"
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(interrogative) how?"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "װי"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "interrogative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "מה"
}

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    "Pages with entries",
    "Yiddish adverbs",
    "Yiddish entries with incorrect language header",
    "Yiddish lemmas",
    "Yiddish terms borrowed from Hebrew",
    "Yiddish terms derived from Hebrew",
    "Yiddish terms with non-redundant manual transliterations"
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      "args": {
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        "3": "מה"
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      "expansion": "Hebrew מה",
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  "etymology_text": "From Hebrew מה.",
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    {
      "form": "ma",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "tr": "ma"
      },
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  "pos": "pron",
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        {
          "english": "\"Who are we (and) what is our life?\"",
          "ref": "1998, Steven A. Jacobson, quotee, A Guide to the More Common Hebraic Words in Yiddish, Fairbanks, AK, page 99:",
          "roman": "\"ma anu ma khayeynu\"",
          "text": "\"מה אַנו מה חײנו?“",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "english": "\"So what? What does it matter?\"",
          "ref": "1998, Steven A. Jacobson, quotee, A Guide to the More Common Hebraic Words in Yiddish, Fairbanks, AK, page 99:",
          "roman": "\"ma bekakh\"",
          "text": "“מה בכּך?“",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "what?"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "what",
          "what"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(interrogative) what?"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "וואָס"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "interrogative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "how?"
      ],
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        [
          "how",
          "how"
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        "(interrogative) how?"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "װי"
        }
      ],
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  ],
  "word": "מה"
}