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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 47:21:11

خَيْرًا

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
47:21
Word in verse
11
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:47:21:11

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
better
Transliteration
khayran
Lemma
خَيْر
Part of speech
Noun (N)
Features
case: ACCstate: indefinitegender: Mnumber: singular

Sub-word segments

  1. خَيْرًاstem · 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 47:21 — 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 →

Obedience and upright speech. Then, when the matter is settled, being true to God would have been better for them
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Obedience and a civil word. Then, when the matter is determined, if they are loyal to Allah it will be well for them
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
And if, when the command for war is issued, they are true to God, it will be assuredly best for them
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Preferable for them were obedience and a reasonable speech! But when the matter is determined on, then if they believed God it were better for them
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 37 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form خَيْرًا appears 37 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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