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رُبَّمَا perhaps in Arabic

رُبَّمَا is how you say “perhaps” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

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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