سِمَاوَاكْ while

Language

php

Surface

keywords

Locale

mad-Arab

Concept

while

Brain ID

php/keywords/while

Brevity ladder

سِمَاوَاكْ → سَالَامَا

Gloss

while — a loop that repeats while a condition holds

Upstream reference

php.net · search

Brain version

1.1.0-alpha.13 · generated Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:26:24 GMT · hash 4914b8003cdd29d0…

Provenance

#4 control-flow key_concept key match on 'while'
#23 demo-alpha concept_map covers concept while
#28 sealion-refinement concept_map maps php/while → concept while winning layer

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Across locales

What each covering migration carries for this concept, per locale — the whole-brain view, not filtered by your language. Forms are the migration's leaf values (pre-transform, pre-human-verdict); a locale without a form falls back to canonical English. Chips open that locale's live docs page for this term.

control-flow · concept while — per-locale forms

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demo-alpha · concept while — per-locale forms

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sealion-refinement · concept while — per-locale forms

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AI council review

Reviewed by 1 model · @cf/aisingapore/gemma-sea-lion-v4-27b-it · 2026-07-17

Cluster control-flow · locale mad-Arab · member while

improve

verdict

سَالَامَا

existing translation

سِمَاوَاكْ

improved translation

Explanation

‘Simawwak’ (from ‘semawawak’) means ‘as long as’ or ‘while’ in Madurese. This is a more accurate translation for a ‘while’ loop.

Issue breakdown

accuracy ‘Salama’ means ‘peace’ or ‘safety’. No connection to looping.