ამა

Laz

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish اما (ammâ), from Arabic أَمَّا (ʔammā).

Conjunction

ამა • (ama) (Latin spelling ama) (Artasheni, Vitse, Khopa)

1. but

   Synonyms: მანა (mana) [Atina], ალა (ala) [Arkabi], ჩქვა (çkva) [Vitse], ედო (edo) [Arkabi], დო (do)

Further reading

• Kojima, Gôichi (2012–) “ama”, in Temel Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük Taslağı‎^[1] (in Turkish)
• Marr, N. (1910) “ამა”, in Грамматика чанского (лазского) языка с хрестоматией и словарем [Grammar of the Chan (Laz) Language with a Reader and a Dictionary] (Материалы по яфетическому языкознанию; 2) (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Academy Press, page 126a
• Tandilava, Ali (2013) “ამა”, in Merab Čuxua, Natela Kutelia, Lile Tandilava, Lali Ezugbaia, editors, Lazuri leksiḳoni [Laz Dictionary]‎^[2], online version prepared by Levan Vašaḳiʒe, Tbilisi