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Laz
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish اما (ammâ), from Arabic أَمَّا (ʔammā).
Conjunction
ამა • (ama) (Latin spelling ama) (Artasheni, Vitse, Khopa)
- but
- Synonyms: მანა (mana) , ალა (ala) , ჩქვა (çkva) , ედო (edo) , დო (do)
Further reading
- Kojima, Gôichi (2012–) “ama”, in Temel Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük Taslağı (in Turkish)
- Marr, N. (1910) “ამა”, in Грамматика чанского (лазского) языка с хрестоматией и словарем [Grammar of the Chan (Laz) Language with a Reader and a Dictionary] (Материалы по яфетическому языкознанию; 2) (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Academy Press, page 126a
- Tandilava, Ali (2013) “ამა”, in Merab Čuxua, Natela Kutelia, Lile Tandilava, Lali Ezugbaia, editors, Lazuri leksiḳoni [Laz Dictionary], online version prepared by Levan Vašaḳiʒe, Tbilisi