imala
English
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editEtymology
editFrom Arabic إمالة (ʔimāla, literally “inclination”). The earliest form of the process, described by the Arab grammarians, was conditioned on the existence of an /i/ before or after the /a/ (somewhat similarly to Germanic umlaut). Hence the /a/ was said to “incline” towards the /i/. In many modern dialects, however, imala is only conditioned by surrounding consonants, and it is typically hindered by certain adjacent consonants (especially emphatics).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editimala (usually uncountable, plural imalas)
Serbo-Croatian
editParticiple
editimala (Cyrillic spelling имала)
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