besides

1. baicin, saɓanin wani (besides someone), ban da wannan, bayan wannan

   Besides this chapter, there's plenty of other chapters in which the Qur'an opens with these kinds of letters.
   Ban da ita wannan Sura da akwai surorin Alqur'ani da dama da Allah ya bud'e su da irin wadannan haruffa. --Quran/2/Rijayar Lemo Tafsir

Google translation of besides

Baicin, kuma.

1. (adverb) kuma <> else, besides, too, again; ban da wannan <> besides;
2. (preposition) ban da <> besides, except;