ама
Bulgarian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Ottoman Turkish اما (ammâ), from Arabic أَمَّا (ʔammā).
Pronunciation
editConjunction
editа́ма • (áma)
Chuvash
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Turkic *ene (“mother”). Compare анне (anne) and амӑшӗ (amăš̬ĕ), all three synonymous forms descending from the same Proto-Turkic root.
Noun
editама • (ama)
Further reading
edit- “ама”, in Электронлă сăмахсар[1] (overall work in Russian and Chuvash), 1996.
- Jegorov, V. G. (1964) “ама”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), Cheboksary: Čuvašskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, page 25
Dolgan
editAdjective
editама • (ama)
Macedonian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Ottoman Turkish اما (ammâ), from Arabic أَمَّا (ʔammā).
Pronunciation
editConjunction
editа́ма • (áma)
References
edit- “ама” in Дигитален речник на македонскиот јазик (Digitalen rečnik na makedonskiot jazik) [Digital dictionary of the Macedonian language] − drmj.eu
Mariupol Greek
editPronunciation
editConjunction
editа́ма • (áma)
- Emphatic form of ма (ma)
References
edit- A. A. Diamantopulo-Rionis with D. L. Demerdzhi, A. M. Davydova-Diamantopulo, A. A. Shapurma, R. S. Kharabadot, and D. K. Patricha (2006) “а́ма”, in Румейско-русский и русско-румейский словарь пяти диалектов греков Приазовья, Mariupol, →ISBN
- G. A. Animica, M. P. Galikbarova (2013) Румеку глоса[2], Donetsk, page 6
Nanai
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Tungusic *ame, compare Evenki амин (amin), Manchu ᠠᠮᠠ (ama).
Noun
editама (ama)
Serbo-Croatian
editEtymology
editFrom Ottoman Turkish اما (ammâ), in turn from Arabic أَمَّا (ʔammā).
Pronunciation
editConjunction
editа̏ма (Latin spelling ȁma)
Interjection
editама (Latin spelling ama)
Sirenik
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Yupik *amǝ-, from Proto-Eskimo *amǝ-.
Conjunction
editама (ama)
References
edit- G. A. Menovschikov (1964) Язык сиреникских эскимосов [The language of Sirenik Eskimos][3], Академия Наук СССР, page 179
- Yupik etymological database
Yakut
editEtymology
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Cognate with the Dolgan word above. Also compare Tuvan анаа (anaa, “normal, ordinary”).
Adjective
editама • (ama)
Particle
editама • (ama)
- at the beginning of a sentence, expresses improbability or doubt
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