وَالتَّعَجُّبِ نَحْوَ: يَا لَلْمَاءِ
And for amazement, as in an exclamation about water.
The wonder in yā la-l-māʾ concerns a striking feature of water, not a real expectation that the water will listen. The form includes the vocative particle and a lām construction characteristic of this kind of exclamation.
Translating it only as “O water” misses the intended emotion. A contextual rendering such as “What remarkable water!” communicates the rhetorical meaning while retaining the Arabic form for analysis.