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بَلُّ rather in Arabic

بَلُّ is how you say “rather” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

قَالَتْ الشِّيعَةُ بَلُّ يَقْصِدُ عَلِيًّا؛

The Shiites said, "No, he meant Ali."

بَلُّ rather

A correction particle, 'rather/no', that cancels the previous claim and substitutes the speaker's own — it does more than 'but', sweeping the prior reading aside. It opens the Shi'a's counter-claim about who was meant.

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