إِلَّ except in Arabic
إِلَّ is how you say “except” in Arabic.
Arabic
English
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Example sentence
رُبَّ صَائِمٍ لَيْسَ لَهُ مِنْ صَوْمِهِ إِلَّا الْجُوعُ وَالْعَطَشُ، وَرُبَّ قَائِمٍ لَيْسَ لَهُ مِنْ قِيَامِهِ إِلَّا السَّهَرُ
'Perhaps a fasting person gains nothing from his fast except hunger and thirst, and perhaps one who prays gains nothing from his prayer except sleeplessness.'
إِلَّا except
An exception particle, 'except / save', that carves out the one thing left after the blanket denial. It links the 'nothing' to the sole remainder, hunger and thirst.
The English is machine-translated.
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