Arabic vocabulary
دونother than
How to say “other than” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
وَسَائِر اللَّذَّات دون هَذِه اللَّذَّة مضمحلة فانية
And all pleasures other than this pleasure are fleeting and perishable.
دُونَ — other than. A relation-word 'short of / besides', frozen in the accusative and governing the genitive — 'apart from'. It excludes the one supreme pleasure.
From: Directing Desire Toward God →
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