# مع
## Arabic
### Etymology

Cognate with Ugaritic 𐎎𐎓 (mʿ). Compare Hebrew עם (ím / ʕím).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ma.ʕa/
* Audio:(file)

### Preposition

مَعَ • (maʕa)
* with, together with, accompanied by, in the company of
    Synonym: وَ (wa)
    Antonyms: بِدُونِ (bidūni), بِلَا (bilā)
* in the estimation of, in the eyes of, in the opinion of
* in spite of, despite, even with
    Synonym: بَيْدَ (bayda)
    مَعَ البَرْدِ، ذَهَبْتُmaʕa al-bardi, ḏahabtuEven with the cold, I [still] went
* toward, in relation to
* pro, for, advocate of, supporting
* have
    Synonyms: لَدَا (ladā), لَدَى (ladā), لَدُنْ (ladun), عِنْدَ (ʕinda), لِ (li)

#### Usage notes

مَعَ • (maʕa) is used to mean "to have" when the object possessed is small and on the possessor's person. The possessor is expressed as the object of the preposition.

#### Derived terms

* مَعًا (maʕan, “together”)

#### Descendants

* Gulf Arabic: مع (maʕa)
* Hijazi Arabic: مع (maʕ)
* Maltese: ma’
* Moroccan Arabic: مع (mʕa)
* Tunisian Arabic: مع (mʕa)

## Gulf Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic مَعَ (maʕa).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /məʕə/

### Preposition

مع • (maʕa)
* with, together with, in the company of
    Synonym: ويا (wiya)
** (by extension) to have
    Synonym: عند (ʕind)
* pro-, for, advocate of, supporting
    Antonym: ضد (ð̣id)
    Synonym: ويا (wiya)

#### Usage notes

Unlike other prepositions, مع (maʕa) can be used with the verb negation particle ما (mā) (as well as the regular preposition negation particle مو (mū)), especially in its inflected forms.

#### Inflection
## Hijazi Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic مَعَ (maʕa).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maʕ/, /maʕa/

### Preposition

مع • (maʕ)
* with, together with, in the company of
    حروح معاك ― ḥarūḥ maʕāk ― I will go with you
* in spite of, despite
* toward, in relation to
* pro, for, advocate of, supporting

#### Inflection
## Moroccan Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic مَعَ (maʕa).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mʕa/

### Conjunction

مع • (mʕa)
* as (at the same instant that)
    مع جيت، مشى ينعس. ― mʕa jīt, mša yinʕas ― As I came, he went to sleep.

### Preposition

مع • (mʕa)
* with, together with, in the company of
    ماش نخرج معاه. ― māš nuḵruj mʕāh ― I will go out with him.
* pro, for, advocate of, supporting
    آنا مع البارصا فهاد الدوري.ʔāna mʕa l-bārṣa f-hād ed-dawriI am supporting FC Barcelona in this tournament.

#### Inflection
## South Levantine Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic مَعَ (maʕa).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maʕ/, [maʕ]
* Audio (Jerusalem):(file)

### Preposition

مع • (maʕ)
* with, together with, in the company of
* (by extension) to have
    Synonyms: عند (ʕind), إلـ (ʔil-)

#### Inflection

(variant A):
(variant B):

## Tunisian Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic مَعَ (maʕa).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mʕa/

### Preposition

مع (mʕa)
* with, together with, in the company of
    تحبشي تجي معايا؟ ― tḥibbši tji mʕāya? ― Would you like to come with me?

#### Inflection
## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَعَ (maʕa).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /mə(ʔ)/

### Preposition

مَع • (ma') (Hindi spelling मअ) (literary)
* with, alongside
    Synonym: ساتھ (sāth)

### Further reading

* “مع”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
* “مع”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
* Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “مع”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
* Platts, John T. (1884) “مع”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
* S. W. Fallon (1879) “مع”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 1103
* John Shakespear (1834) “مع”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC