غَيْرُ non-/un- in Arabic

وبأن القرآن المنزل كلام الله تعالى غير مخلوق،

and that the revealed Quran is the uncreated word of Allah,

غَيْرُ uncreated

This word means 'other than / not', and joined to the next noun it builds 'uncreated' (not a created thing). It is a further predicate-attribute of the Quran and heads a possessive, forcing the following noun into the genitive. Arabic often says 'not X' by setting this 'other-than' before X.

From Scripture Over Speculation

ثم أخبر سبحانه عن حال الانسان في يوم القيامة أنه غير ممتنع من عذاب الله لا بقوة منه ولا بقوة من خارج وهو الناصر

Then He, the Exalted, informed us about the state of human beings on the Day of Judgment: that they will not be able to prevent the punishment of Allah, neither by their own strength nor by any external support, for He is the Helper.

غَيْرُ not

A noun 'other than/not' used to negate the participle that follows: 'not one who escapes'. As a predicate it takes the nominative ending and itself opens an 'of' pairing with the next word.

From Signs of Resurrection

ثم أخبر سبحانه عن حال الانسان في يوم القيامة أنه غير ممتنع من عذاب الله لا بقوة منه ولا بقوة من خارج

Then Allah, the Exalted, tells about the state of humankind on the Day of Judgment: they cannot escape Allah's punishment, neither by their own strength nor by any external force.

غَيْرُ not

This noun means 'other-than' and is the standard way Arabic negates a following description: 'not immune'. It governs the word after it as an 'of' owner and itself serves as the predicate of the reported clause. Where English negates with 'not', Arabic here uses this noun of exception.

From Oaths That Seal the Truth

قَالَ فَغَيْرُ هَذَا

He said, "Then change this."

فَغَيْرُ then change

A word meaning 'other than/change', opened by the attached 'then/so' connective. The prefix gives the sequencing 'then', and the word demands something different in place of what was offered.

From Wealth and Knowledge on Trial

وَحَكَى غَيْرُ الْمَأْمُونِ أَنَّ السَّجَّانُ فَطِنَ لِإِرْتِفَاقِهِ بِالْمِصْبَاحِ فِي تَسْخِينِ الْمَاءِ،

And another narrator, not al-Ma'mun, reported that the jailer noticed his staying close by the lamp in heating the water.

غَيْرُ another

This word means 'other than / someone besides', and it forms an owner-and-owned pairing with the name right after it: 'someone other-than al-Ma'mun'. As the first half of that pairing it stays bare and takes its definiteness from the name it leans on. It marks the narrator here as a different person from the one named.

From A Son Protecting His Father

غَيْرُ خَافٍ عَلَى عَاقِلٍ حَقُّ الْمُنْعِمِ،

The right of the benefactor is not hidden from a sensible person.

غَيْرُ not

This word means 'not / other-than' and here negates the predicate that follows: the benefactor's right is not hidden. It forms a tight pairing with the describing word after it, leaning on it for the genitive. So it opens a 'it is not the case that... is hidden' statement.

From Honoring Parents

غَيْرُ أَنَّهُ زَيْنُهَا وَطِفْلُ الْهَوَى ذُو إِغْتِرَارٍ،

Except that he adorned it, and the one carried away by desire was full of self-deception.

غَيْرُ except

A noun meaning 'except / save that', used here to carve out an exception to what came before. It heads a possessive link with the 'that he ...' clause after it and forces that into the object form. Its job is to introduce a qualifying caveat — 'only, except that ...' — narrowing the preceding claim.

From This World Is Short

فَالنِّيَّاتُ لَا تُغْنِي وَحْدَهَا إِذَا كَانَ الْعَمَلُ غَيْرُ صَحِيحٍ،

So intentions alone do not suffice if the deed is not correct.

غَيْرُ not

A noun of negation meaning 'other than / not', used to negate the adjective right after it: 'not correct'. It works as the description in the 'to be' clause, and because it heads an 'of' link with that adjective, the adjective after it goes into the genitive.

From How the Companions Preserved Hadith

فَانْفَرَجَتْ الصَّخْرَةُ غَيْرُ أَنَّهُمْ لَا يَسْتَطِيعُونَ الْخُرُوجَ مِنْهَا

The rock split open, but they could not get out of it.

غَيْرُ but

This word normally means 'other than', but here it pivots the sentence into a contrast, 'except that / but'. It leans on the 'that'-clause after it to name the exception, setting up the limitation that the men still could not escape.

From Trapped and Delivered

غَيْرُ رَجُلٍ وَاحِدٍ تَرَكَ الَّذِي لَهُ وَذَهَبَ

All but one man left what belonged to him and departed.

غَيْرُ except

Here this word works as an exception, 'all but', carving one man out of the group. It heads a possessive pairing with the noun after it and so forces that noun into the genitive, the case Arabic uses for the thing an exception is taken from.

From Trapped and Delivered

فَلَمْ يَبْقَ مَعَ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ غَيْرُ اِثْنَى عَشَرَ رَجُلًا،

Only twelve men remained with the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him.

غَيْرُ only

A noun 'other than' used after the negation to mean 'none but / only', narrowing the survivors down to the count that follows. It works with the earlier 'did not remain' to give the exclusive 'only twelve' sense.

From A Companion at Battle

وَغَيْرُ ذَلِكَ مِنْ كُلِّ كِتَابٍ أَقْدِرُ عَلَيْهِ،

and other things from every book I can handle.

وَغَيْرَ and other

This token fuses the linking wa- with the word 'other/besides'. The wa- adds a final catch-all to the list, while 'other' heads an 'of' link to the demonstrative after it, meaning 'other than that'. It sweeps in everything not already named.

From A Life of Reading and Writing

غَيْرُ أَنَّ بَعْضَ الْحُمْقِ أَهْوَنُ مِنْ بَعْضٍ

However, some foolishness is less harmful than others.

غَيْرُ however

This noun functions as an adversative connector here, 'however/except that', qualifying the sweeping claim just made. As the head of an 'of'-type link with the following particle-clause, it carries the (genitive). Its job is to introduce a limiting caveat rather than to name a thing.

From On Foolishness and Wisdom

لَا أُكْلٍ نُصْرَتُهُمْ إِلَى غَيْرِي

I will not allow their support to go to anyone else.

غَيْرِي anyone else

This is the noun 'other (than)' with -i, the 'me' possessor, fused to its end, so one word means 'other than me / anyone but me'. Governed by the 'to' before it, it sits in the governed form. It marks the excluded party the support must never go to.

From Under God's Shield