ამა
Laz
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish اما (ammâ), from Arabic أَمَّا (ʾammā).
Conjunction
ამა • (ama) (Latin spelling ama) (Artasheni, Vitse, Khopa)
- but
- Synonyms: (Atina) მანა (mana), (Arkabi) ალა (ala), (Vitse) ჩქვა (čkva), (Arkabi) ედო (edo), დო (do)
Further reading
- Kojima, Gôichi (2012–), “ama”, in Temel Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük Taslağı (in Turkish)
- Марр, Н. (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