مآن

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Soqotri

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Alternative forms

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  • مهن (mhɔn) (after prepositions)

Etymology

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Akin to Mehri [script needed] (môn), Shehri [script needed] (mun), Arabic مَن (man, who).

Pronoun

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مآن (mɔn)

  1. who (interrogative or relative)
    • 2018, “Oh Generation...”, in Vitaly Naumkin, compiler, Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature, volume 2, page 90, lines 1–2:
      ومآن شيهو ڸعبارو ولنقُاد ڸمنقينيعو؟
      wa-mɔn šíʔho ḷə-ʕəbéro wa-ľinḳód ḷə-mənḳiníʕo
      Who is with me against this generation so that the crazy ones will be reprimanded?

References

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  • Naumkin, Vitaly, et al. (2014) “Glossary”, in Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature, volume 1, Leiden: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 612
  • Naumkin, Vitaly, et al. (2018) “Glossary”, in Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature, volume 2, Leiden: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 538
  • Leslau, Wolf (1938) “mon”, in Lexique Soqotri (sudarabique moderne) avec comparaisons et explications étymologiques (in French), Wiesbaden: Libraire C. Klincksieck, page 245