فيما

Arabic

Etymology

Composed of فِي (fī, “in”) +‎ ـمَا (-mā, “what”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fiː.maː/

Conjunction

فِيمَا • (fīmā)

while
in that, as
in what (relative, not interrogative)
فِيمَا مَضَى ― fīmā maḍā ― in what has passed, in the past

Derived terms

فِيمَا بَعْد (fīmā baʕd, “in what follows, later”)

References

Wehr, Hans (1979) “في”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

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