Arabic vocabulary
بَلُّrather
How to say “rather” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
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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