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question with foto from book I want to understand why in this book so djumlya.. may be this is mistake.. هَلْ تَعْرِفُ أُولَمَا القِبْلَتَيْنِ؟ if it true what is the meaning? - -

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It seems to be correct, although I never seen written this way before, It is composed of 2 words: أُولى + ما

Some fonts will render the text similar to the photo that you attached (i.e. the font in this page: http://www.almaany.com/ar/dict/ar-ar/%D8%A3%D9%88%D9%84%D9%89%D9%85%D8%A7/)

For the meaning, أولى is the singular feminine form of أوّل and ما  is supplementary/auxiliary which doesn't have meaning..

Sometimes ما comes as supplementary/auxiliary and got attached to the words before, examples for that:
أيما

إنما

إذا ما

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thank you.. then i dont must to learn this in such way.. en iyi baśka śekilde ögrenmek
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I'm not sure about it, since I have never heard or read it this way with this meaning even in dictionaries. It's always أولى. Yet the same form is correct with a different pronunciation and meaning, it's Awalamma, where Awa is a question form contains two parts: A أ which is a question tool same as هل and as Do in English. The second part is Wa, which is an additional letter that sometimes follows the question tool. This is for the question tool, but for the word as a whole, it's also on two parts: Awa+Lamma, where Lamma means: when. So we have this form أ+وَ+لما However, Owlama is odd and I've never heard it or read it before. It's always Owla, or Owlahuma, as in the case of dual. But أولما although it takes the same shape or exterior Arabic form, its construction, pronunciation and meaning are actually different.

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