إلّا except in Arabic
إلّا is how you say “except” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
وبأن القراء لا يحفظون إلا شواذ القراءة
and that the reciters do not preserve except the rare readings.
إِلَّا except
This exceptive particle carves out the sole exception from the preceding negation, giving 'except'. It depends on the earlier 'not', and together they restrict what the reciters preserve to one thing.
The English is machine-translated.

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