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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 12:59:16

خَيْرُ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
12:59
Word in verse
16
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:12:59:16

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Transliteration
khayru
Lemma
خَيْر
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: NOMgender: Mnumber: singular

Sub-word segments

  1. خَيْرُstem · N · خ ي ر

Morphology is an external annotation from the Leeds Quranic Arabic Corpus, licensed GPL-2.0-or-later. It is not Quranic text and never alters the token.

In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 12:59 — 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 →

When he provided them with their provisions, he said, “Bring me a brother of yours from your father. Do you not see that I fill up the measure, and I am the best of hosts?”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And when he provided them with their provision he said: Bring unto me a brother of yours from your father. See ye not that I fill up the measure and I am the best of hosts
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
And when he had provided them with their provision, he said, "Bring me your brother from your father. See ye not that I fill the measure, and am the best of hosts
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
And when he had equipped them with their equipment he said, 'Bring me a brother that ye have from your father; do ye not see that I give good measure, and that I am the best of entertainers
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 20 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form خَيْرُ appears 20 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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