أما

Conj

as for; followed by a noun or pronoun, itself followed by the particle فَـ (fa-)

Particle

verily, truly, indeed, oh yes!

Verb

to meow (esp. of she-cat)

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ʔam.maː/

Etymology

Univerbation of أَن (ʔan, “that”) + مَا (mā, relative), the original thought being “that this matter be touched”, “be it that”, or just a dialectal variant of disjunctive إِمَّا (ʔimmā, “be it that”) as أَمَّا (ʔammā) can well be used for positing two alternatives.

Concepts

as for

but

concerning

however

Synonyms

لكن

Translations

quant a

aber

was … betrifft

was … angeht

αλλά

μα

όμως

mais

pour

quant à

ma

autem

sed

ale

quanto a