Hebrew word
mâh
maw
מָה
What it means
properly, interrogative what?
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
Where it comes from
or מַה; or מָ; or מַ; also מֶה; a primitive particle