{"def":{"short":"properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively, that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjunctive senses","long":["(interr pron) what, how, of what kind",["(interrogative)",["what?","of what kind","what? (rhetorical)","whatsoever, whatever, what"],"(adverb)",["how, how now","why","how! (exclamation)"],"(with prep)",["wherein?, whereby?, wherewith?, by what means?","because of what?","the like of what?",["how much?, how many?, how often?","for how long?"],"for what reason?, why?, to what purpose?","until when?, how long?, upon what?, wherefore? indef pron"]],"anything, aught, what may"]},"deriv":"or מַה; or מָ; or מַ; also מֶה; a primitive particle","pronun":{"ipa":"mɔː","ipa_mod":"mɑː","sbl":"mâ","dic":"maw","dic_mod":"ma"}}