غَيْر

gayorN * signifies i. q. siwFY [ Other ]: and the pl. is A^agoyaArN : (S:) [but gayor itself often has a pl. meaning, as will be seen in what follows:] or [accord. to general usage, as will be seen below,] gayoru signifies i. q. siwaY [ other than; exclusively of; or not, as used before a substantive or an adjective]. (Msb, K: in the CK [erroneously] siwFY .) It is used to qualify a subst.; [governing (as a prefixed noun) the noun that follows it in the gen. case;] and when so used, it is put in the same case as the noun preceding it. (S.) It qualifies an indeterminate noun: (Mughnee, Msb:) you say jaA='aniY rajulN gayoruka [ A man, other than, or not, thou, came to me ]: (Msb:) and naEomalo SaAliHFA gayora A@l~a*iY kun~aA naEomalu [ We will in that case do good, other than, or not, what we used to do: (Kur xxxv. 34:)]: (Mughnee:) and mino maA='K gayori A=sinK [ Of water other than, or not, altered in taste and colour ]. (Kur xlvii. 16.) It is a noun necessarily prefixed, as to the sense, to a noun which it governs in the gen. case: but sometimes it is without the latter, when the meaning is understood and it is preceded by layosa , (Mughnee, K,) or by laA : (K:) [in which case it signifies Any other person or thing; any person or thing beside, or else: ] you say qabaDotu Ea$arapF layosa gayoruhaA [ I received ten; not other than they was received by me; i. e., not any other thing; or not anything beside, or else ]; (Mughnee, K;) the enunciative, maqobuwDFA , being suppressed: (Mughnee:) and lys gayorahaA , (Mughnee, K;) the noun [of lys ] being understood; i. e., layosa AlmaqobuwDu gayorahaA : (Mughnee:) and lys gayora ; in which the affixed noun [for AlmDAf , in the K, I read AlmDAf Alyh , as in the Mughnee,] is suppressed, and the noun [of lys ] is also understood: (Mughnee, K:) and lys gayoru ; (Mughnee, K;) in which, accord. to Mbr, and the later authors, gyr is indecl., being likened to qabolu and baEodu , so that it may be either the noun or the enunciative [of lys ] or, accord. to Akh, it is decl., because it is not a noun of time like qabolu and baEodu , nor of place like fawoqu and taHotu , but like kul~N and baEoDN , so that it is the noun [of lys ], and the enunciative is suppressed; (Mughnee;) or it may be either indecl. or decl., (Mughnee, K,) accord. to Ibn-Kharoof: (Mughnee:) and lys gayorFA , and lys gayorN ; (Mughnee, K;) in both which cases it is decl., as though the affixed noun were mentioned: (Mughnee:) and laA gayoru ; for the saying, [which we find in the Mughnee,] app. taken from a statement of Seer, that this is incorrect, is not good, since it occurs in the following verse, cited by Ibn-Málik; jawaAbFA bihi tanojuw A@Eotamido fawarab~inaA laEano EamalK A^asolafota laA gayoru tusoA^alu [ Aim thou at having an answer by which thou mayest be safe; for, by our Lord, respecting an action which thou shalt have done before, not any other thing, or not anything beside or else, thou wilt be asked ]. (K.) ― -b2- It does not become determinate by its being prefixed to another noun, because it is very vague: but it is also applied as an epithet to a determinate noun which is near to being indeterminate; as in SiraATa A@l~a*iyna A^anoEamota Ealayohimo gayori A@lomagoDuwbi Ealayohimo [ The way of those upon whom Thou hast conferred favour; the other than, or those who are not, the objects of anger; (Kur i. 6 and 7;)] because the noun rendered determinate by the art. Al denoting a genus is near to being indeterminate, and because when gyr occurs between two contraries its vagueness becomes weakened, (Mughnee, K, *) or altogether departs: (K:) or it is here applied as an epithet to a determinate noun because it resembles a determinate noun in its being prefixed to such a noun: (Msb:) Az says that gyr is here in the gen. case because it is an epithet to Al*yn ; and that it may be an epithet to [what is technically termed in this instance] a determinate noun [as having the article Al prefixed to it] because Al*yn has