Arabic word sheet
غَيْرٌ
Other than
- Type
- noun
- Root
- غ ي ر
Meaning and usage
Other than
Placed before a noun, it means whatever is not the person or thing named: “other than”, “someone else than”.
Not, un-
Before a describing word it gives its opposite: “not”, like the prefix “un-”.
Except
Sets someone or something apart from what has just been said: “except”, “but”, “apart from”.
Without
With “by” or “from” before it, it says that the thing named is absent: “without”.
Word family
What the root means غ ي ر
The root carries the idea of being other, different. To change a thing is to make it other than it was: hence “to change”, “to be altered” and “change”; jealousy and the jealous person belong to the same family.
to change (something)
غَيَّرَ
to change, to be altered
تَغَيَّرَ
change, alteration
تَغْيِيرٌ
jealousy
غَيْرَةٌ
jealous
غَيُورٌ
Synonyms
other than, apart from
سِوًى
It only means “other than” or “except”, and is not used to negate a quality.
except
إِلَّا
It is the ordinary word for an exception and has that sense only.