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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 12:39:5

خَيْرٌ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
خَيْرٌ Quranic text
Simple
خَيْرٌ
Without tashkeel
خير
Normalised (searchable)
خير

Position

Computed
Verse
12:39
Word in verse
5
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:12:39:5

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
better
Transliteration
khayrun
Lemma
خَيْر
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: NOMstate: indefinitegender: Mnumber: singularadjective: true

Sub-word segments

  1. خَيْرٌstem · N · خ ي ر

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 12:39 — the whole verse this word appears in — not this word alone. The correspondence is verse-level: no word-level alignment of translations exists for these editions, so we do not claim which English word renders this Arabic word. Compare the editions →

“O My fellow inmates, are diverse lords better, or God, the One, the Supreme?”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
O my fellow-prisoners! Are divers lords better, or Allah the One, Almighty
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
O my two fellow prisoners! are sundry lords best, or God, the One, the Mighty
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
O ye twain fellow-prisoners! Are manifold lords better, or God, the one, the dominant
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 78 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form خَيْرٌ appears 78 times in the corpus.

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Root خ ي ر · 196 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root خ ي ر occurs 196 times across 25 distinct forms.

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