Arabic vocabulary
بَلَّrather
How to say “rather” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
بَلَّ وَإِبْلِيسُ مُعْتَرِفٌ بِهَذِهِ الْحَقِيقَةِ وَأَهْلُ النَّارِ
Rather, Iblis and the people of the Fire acknowledge this reality.
بَلَّ — rather. A particle that corrects or overrides what came before, like 'rather' or 'on the contrary'. Its job is to cancel a prior assumption and replace it with the stronger claim that follows, redirecting the argument.
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