The Women 4:86Quranic text
وَإِذَاحُيِّيتُمبِتَحِيَّةٍفَحَيُّوا۟بِأَحْسَنَمِنْهَآأَوْرُدُّوهَآإِنَّٱللَّهَكَانَعَلَىٰكُلِّشَىْءٍحَسِيبًا
Reference 4:86Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 4:86:5
بِأَحْسَنَ
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- بِأَحْسَنَ Quranic text
- Simple
- بِأَحْسَنَ
- Without tashkeel
- بأحسن
- Normalised (searchable)
- باحسن
Position
Computed- Surah
- 4 · The Women
- Verse
- 4:86
- Word in verse
- 5
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:4:86:5
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- with better
- Transliteration
- bi-aḥsana
- Root
- ح س نhh-s-n
- Lemma
- أَحْسَن
- Part of speech
- Noun (N)
- Features
- case: GENgender: Mnumber: singular
Sub-word segments
- بِprefix · P
- أَحْسَنَstem · N · ح س ن
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 4:86 — 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 you are greeted with a greeting, respond with a better greeting, or return it. God keeps count of everythingWhen ye are greeted with a greeting, greet ye with a better than it or return it. Lo! Allah taketh count of all thingsIf ye are greeted with a greeting, then greet ye with a better greeting, or at least return it: God taketh count of all thingsAnd when ye are saluted with a salutation, salute with a better than it, or return it;- verily, God of all things takes accountSame form · 1 occurrence
ComputedThis exact form appears only here — it is a hapax in the corpus.
Root ح س ن · 194 occurrences
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)The root ح س ن occurs 194 times across 60 distinct forms.
- ٱلْمُحْسِنِينَ2:58:20
- إِحْسَانًا2:83:11
- حُسْنًا2:83:18
- مُحْسِنٌ2:112:7
- أَحْسَنُ2:138:4
- بِإِحْسَٰنٍ2:178:25
- وَأَحْسِنُوٓا۟2:195:10
- ٱلْمُحْسِنِينَ2:195:14
- حَسَنَةً2:201:8
- حَسَنَةً2:201:11
- بِإِحْسَٰنٍ2:229:7
- ٱلْمُحْسِنِينَ2:236:25
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