The Prophets 21:89Quranic text
وَزَكَرِيَّآإِذْنَادَىٰرَبَّهُۥرَبِّلَاتَذَرْنِىفَرْدًاوَأَنتَخَيْرُٱلْوَٰرِثِينَ
Reference 21:89Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 21:89:10
خَيْرُ
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- خَيْرُ Quranic text
- Simple
- خَيْرُ
- Without tashkeel
- خير
- Normalised (searchable)
- خير
Position
Computed- Surah
- 21 · The Prophets
- Verse
- 21:89
- Word in verse
- 10
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:21:89:10
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- (are) [the] Best
- Transliteration
- khayru
- Root
- خ ي رkh-y-r
- Lemma
- خَيْر
- Part of speech
- Noun (N)
- Features
- case: NOMgender: Mnumber: singular
Sub-word segments
- 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 1.1How translators rendered it
Translation · 4 editionsThese translations render verse 21:89 — 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 →
And Zechariah, when he called out to his Lord, “My Lord, do not leave me alone, even though you are the Best of heirs.”And Zachariah, when he cried unto his Lord: My Lord! Leave me not childless, though Thou art the Best of inheritorsAnd Zacharias; when he called upon his Lord saying, "O my Lord, leave me not childless: but there is no better heir than ThyselfAnd Zachariah, when he cried unto his Lord, 'O Lord! leave me not alone; for thou art the best of heirsSame form · 20 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form خَيْرُ appears 20 times in the corpus.
- خَيْرُ3:54:5
- خَيْرُ3:150:5
- خَيْرُ5:114:21
- خَيْرُ6:57:21
- خَيْرُ7:87:18
- خَيْرُ7:89:41
- خَيْرُ7:155:40
- خَيْرُ8:30:15
- خَيْرُ10:109:10
- خَيْرُ12:59:16
- خَيْرُ12:80:36
- خَيْرُ22:58:17
Root خ ي ر · 196 occurrences
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)The root خ ي ر occurs 196 times across 25 distinct forms.
- خَيْرٌ2:54:17
- خَيْرٌ2:61:30
- خَيْرٌ2:103:9
- خَيْرٍ2:105:14
- بِخَيْرٍ2:106:8
- خَيْرٍ2:110:9
- ٱلْخَيْرَٰتِ2:148:6
- خَيْرًا2:158:20
- خَيْرًا2:180:9
- خَيْرًا2:184:22
- خَيْرٌ2:184:24
- خَيْرٌ2:184:28
Cited by 0 investigations
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