أصلا

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See also: اصلاً and اصلا

Arabic

Root
ء ص ل (ʔ ṣ l)
7 terms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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.

Descendants

  • → Azerbaijani: əsla
  • → Persian: اصلاً (aslan), اصن (asan) (colloquial, Tehran)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: اصلاً (aslan)
  • → Uzbek: aslan
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