Levantine Arabic: Does marra mean time or once?
marra bil jom3a means once a week?
kill marra means every time?
Are there other uses for marra?
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Hi Ann,
I'm still learning, like you, but I'm familiar with this word. It has two meanings. First, it means once - not like "I ate once today" (so marra biljom3ah is incorrect, and jam3ah is Friday, not week), but more like how "once upon a time" is used: think "Once, I was eating". Also marrah can mean "a time, instance, or occurrence" - it is synonymous with "wa'it" which is much more common. And finally, in Levantine dialect, maraah - spelled differently in Arabic but pronounced identically, is the noun for "woman". Hope this helped.
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And مرة بالزمانات marra bizemanat, which means ¨once upon a time¨.
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Yes, both of the sentences you wrote are correct.
مره بالجمعه
translates to "once/one time a week"
كل مره
translates to "every time"
كم مره؟
translates to "how many times..?"
And جمعه can refer to the day Friday or the week as a whole, depending on the dialect :)
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Like i will eating marra in the day
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Yah correct mean it's once for everything
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