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From Arabic مَاء (māʔ, “water”) with a frozen definite article.
المي • (almi) m (plural ألامي (alāmi))
- water
- Heath, Judith, Mahadi, Mahamat Zene (2021) Lexique Arabe Tchadien-Français[1] (in French), 11th edition, N'Djamena, Chad: SIL Chad, page 10