Arabic vocabulary
لِغَيْرِfor other than
How to say “for other than” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
وَكُلُّ مَا أَحَبَّ لِغَيْرِ اللَّهِ فَمَحَبَّتُهُ فَاسِدَةٌ
And whatever one loves for reasons other than God, that love is corrupt.
لِغَيْرِ — for other than. The li- here marks the reason or aim of the loving and governs the noun 'other-than' into the genitive. That noun sets up exclusion, 'for the sake of something other than'. Together they name love directed at any aim besides the one to come.
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