के सिवाय

• के सिवा (ke sivā)
• सिवाय (sivāy)

Borrowed from Classical Persian سِوَایَ (siwāya), سِوَا (siwā), from Arabic سِوَا (siwā, “apart from, except”), from س و ي (s w y). Cognate with Gujarati સિવાય (sivāya), Marathi शिवाय (śivāy), Konkani शिवाय (śivāy), and Punjabi ਸਿਵਾ (sivā).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /keː sɪ.ʋɑːj/, [keː‿sɪ.ʋäːj]

के सिवाय • (ke sivāy) (Urdu spelling کے سوائے)

1. except
2. besides, other than

May appear inverted with its object, as in either आपके सिवाय (āpke sivāy) or सिवाय आपके (sivāy āpke, “except for you”), and also not necessarily with the genitive marker (e.g. के (ke)).

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “सिवाय”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press