إلا

Cognate with Ge'ez አላ (ʾälla), Hebrew אֶלָּא‎ (elá).

إِلَّا • (ʔillā)

1. except, save

   Synonyms: سِوَى‎ (siwā), غَيْر‎ (ḡayr)

2. unless, if not
3. (after negation) only, but, not until

   ‏الصِّحَّةُ تَاجٌ عَلَى رُؤُوسِ الْأَصِحَّاءِ لَا يَرَاهُ إِلَّا الْمَرْضَى.‎‎

   aṣ-ṣiḥḥatu tājun ʕalā ruʔūsi l-ʔaṣiḥḥāʔi lā yarāhu ʔillā l-marḍā.

   Health is a crown on the heads of the healthy, that only the ill can see.

   Synonyms: سِوَى‎ (siwā), غَيْر‎ (ḡayr)

4. other than, besides
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 21:22:

     ‏لَوْ كَانَ فِيهِمَا ءَالِهَةٌ إِلَّا ٱللَّهُ لَفَسَدَتَا فَسُبْحَـٰنَ ٱللَّهِ رَبِّ ٱلْعَرْشِ عَمَّا يَصِفُونَ‎

     law kāna fīhimā ʔālihatun ʔillā l-lahu lafasadatā fasubḥāna l-lahi rabbi l-ʕarši ʕammā yaṣifūna

     Had there been within them [i.e., the heavens and earth] gods besides Allāh, they both would have been ruined. So exalted is Allāh, Lord of the Throne, above what they describe.

• إِلَّا مَنْ رَحِمَ رَبِّي‎ (ʔillā man raḥima rabbī)

From a dialectal variant of Arabic إِذَا‎ (ʔiḏā).

• IPA^(key): /ʔi.la/

إلا • (ʔila)

1. Alternative form of إدا‎ (ʔida)

From Arabic إِلَّا‎ (ʔillā).

• IPA^(key): /ʔil.la/

إلا • (ʔilla)

1. except, save
2. unless, if not

From Arabic إِلَّا‎ (ʔillā).

• IPA^(key): /ʔil.la/, [ˈʔɪl.la]

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إلّا • (ʔilla)

1. unless, if not
2. (after negation) except, only

   Synonyms: غير‎ (ḡēr), ما عدا‎ (ma-ʕada)

3. (telling time) to

   ‏الساعة خمسة إلا تلت.‎‎

   is-sāʕa ḵamse ʔilla tult

   It's twenty to three.

4. and there, lo and behold