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إنما only in Arabic

إنما is how you say “only” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

فيهم فلان ليس منهم، إنما جاء لحاجة،

Among them is so-and-so who is not one of them; he only came for a need.

إِنَّمَا he only

This is the restriction-particle 'only / merely' — it limits the statement to a single reason: he came 'only' for an errand. Arabic packs the 'nothing but' force into this one fused word, narrowing what follows.

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