رُبَّمَاperhaps

Example sentences

• وَرُبَّمَا قَوِيَتْ مَعْرِفَةُ عَالِمٍ مِنْهُمْ، وَتَفَاقَمَتْ ذُنُوبُهُ

  Perhaps the knowledge of a scholar among them grew strong, while his sins worsened.

  وَرُبَّمَا — and perhaps. A 'wa-' fused to a particle of possibility, together 'and perhaps'. The 'wa-' links this to the previous thought, while the possibility particle softens the claim to a 'maybe', and it typically pulls a past-tense verb after it into a general 'it may happen that...' reading rather than a fixed past fact.

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