أصلا
See also: اصلاً
Arabic
Etymology
Adverbial accusative of أَصْل (ʔaṣl, “origin, original”).
Adverb
أَصْلاً • (ʔaṣlan)
- originally
- أَنَا أَصْلاً مِنْ بَغْداد.
- ʔanā ʔaṣlan min baḡdād.
- I’m originally from Baghdad.
- at all; in the first place
- لِماذَا فَعَلْتَ ذٰلِكَ أَصْلاً؟
- limāḏā faʕalta ḏālika ʔaṣlan?
- Why did you do that in the first place?
- anyway
- خُذْهُ، لَا أُرِيدُهُ أَصْلاً.
- ḵuḏhu, lā ʔurīduhu ʔaṣlan.
- Take it, I don’t want it anyway.