خَلَا except in Arabic
خَلَا is how you say “except” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
وَقَوله أفضل كلمة قَالَهَا الشَّاعِر كلمة لبيد أَلا كل شَيْء مَا خلا الله بَاطِل
And his saying: "The best word said by a poet is the word of Labid: Behold, everything other than Allah is futile."
خَلَا except
Paired with 'ma' as 'except' — literally 'it was void of', a frozen verb used to mean 'apart from'. Together 'ma khala' = 'all but'.
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أفضل كلمة قَالَهَا الشَّاعِر كلمة لبيد أَلا كل شَيْء مَا خلا الله بَاطِل
"The best phrase the poet Labid said: 'Indeed, everything besides Allah is false.'"
خَلَا except
Paired with 'ma' as 'except' — literally 'it was void of', a frozen verb meaning 'apart from'.
كُنْتُمْ إِذَا خَلَوْتُمْ بَارَزْتُمُونِي بِالْعَظَائِمِ،
When you were alone, you would boldly commit great sins against Me,
خَلَوْتُمْ you were alone
A past-tense verb, 'you were alone', with a plural 'you' subject in its ending. It states the recurring situation the 'whenever' introduces.
وأقر بالعجز فخلا لي المعترك،
And they acknowledged their inability, so the battlefield was left to me.
فَخَلَا so was left
The prefix fa- opens the result: because they conceded, the arena was emptied. The past-tense verb carries its subject inside its form, and the sense is that the place 'became free / vacant' for the speaker, a state-change packed into one verb.
وَخَلَا الطَّرِيقُ لَا يَمُرُّ فِيهِ أَحَدٌ،
And the road lay deserted; no one passed along it.
وَخَلاَ and lay deserted
The leading 'wa-' (and) joins this clause to the narrative, fused onto a past-tense verb whose 'he' subject is built in. The chunk both links the events and reports the road's emptying. The named subject, the road, follows the verb.