أما
Arabic
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.
Pronunciation
Conjunction
أَمَّا • (ʾammā)
- as for; followed by a noun or pronoun, itself usually followed by the particle فَـ (fa-)
- أَمَّا النَّافِذَةُ فَهِيَ مَفْتُوحَةٌ ― ʔammā an-nāfiḏatu fahiya maftūḥatun ― As for the window, it's open.
Usage notes
- أَمَّا (ʔammā) is used to make the following noun phrase the focus of the sentence. While “as for” is a good rule-of-thumb translation, it is often more idiomatic to use “but” or no conjunction at all.
Derived terms
- أَمَّا بَعْدُ (ʔammā baʕdu)
Descendants
- Maltese: imma
- Moroccan Arabic: أما (ʔamma)
- → Azerbaijani: amma
- → Bashkir: әммә (əmmə)
- → Persian: اما (ammâ)
- → Turkish: ama
- → Urdu: اما (ammâ)
Moroccan Arabic
Etymology
Pronunciation
Conjunction
أَمَّا • (ʔamma)
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