عَار
ˁar
basic morphological information

conj. 

1. but; 2. since, because
1. но; 2. так как
لكنّ
LS 325; CSOL I 496; CSOL II 413; CSOL III
text examples

1. iʰ tebódi aḷ-góˁorš ˁar tíˁid ke-megɔ́še wa-tenéḥig šéʸhen ‘You are lying  you’re not ill, but go with boys and play with them’ (CSOL II 6:7)

2. wa-ˁougénoʰ meskíneʰ wa-gaˁároʰ wa-bíŝi di-ˁáľeg tos wa-bíŝi di-šenóuḥor ˁar díˀseʰ bíyyoʰ ṣáme ‘The girl got depressed, and she fell ill, but there was nobody to heal her, nobody to whom she could complain, since her mother had died’ (CSOL II 6:4)

3. aḷ-ṭaʰ ˁar ṭaʰ ‘It’s not like this; it’s like that’ (CSOL III 13:24)

root
ˁr
etymology
Proto-MSA *ˁar but
continental MSA