إذا

Significado (Inglês)

Conj

1. when, when it is that; as soon as; if
2. (with فَ (fa, “then”)) and then, and; thereupon, whereupon; when behold, then behold

Adv

then, therefore

Conceitos

se

Sinônimos

لو

Traduções

if

eğer

se

si

wenn

indien

si

si

si

εάν

αν

falls

als

whether

ob

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ʔi.ðaː/

Etimologia (Inglês)

Equivalent to a univerbation of إِن (ʔin, “if, introduces protasis”) + ذَا (ḏā, “this, demonstrative pronoun”). A retroactively added protasis may be instead understood by the hearer as a new main clause, therefore “when” became “then”. Like in Latin—well-known—relative pronouns are used as proximal demonstrative pronouns indistinctly: quod erat demonstrandum.
Compare to Hebrew אָז (ʾāz, “so, therefore, then”), Hebrew אַזַי, Aramaic אֱדַיִן (ʾĕḏáyin, “then, at that time”), which may in lack of attestations of conjunctional use instead parallel هٰذَا (hāḏā) however.