أصلا

See also: اصلاً and اصلا

Arabic

Etymology

Adverbial accusative of أَصْل (ʔaṣl, “origin, original”).

Adverb

أَصْلًا • (ʔaṣlan)

1. originally

   أَنَا أَصْلًا مِنْ بَغْداد.

   ʔanā ʔaṣlan min baḡdād.

   I’m originally from Baghdad.

2. at all; in the first place

   لِماذَا فَعَلْتَ ذٰلِكَ أَصْلًا؟

   limāḏā faʕalta ḏālika ʔaṣlan?

   Why did you do that in the first place?

3. anyway

   خُذْهُ، لَا أُرِيدُهُ أَصْلًا.

   ḵuḏhu, lā ʔurīduhu ʔaṣlan.

   Take it, I don’t want it anyway.