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خَيْر

khayr

xayorN xyr [ Good, moral or physical; anything that is good, real or ideal, and actual or potential; and, being originally an inf. n., used as sing and pl.;] a thing that all desire; such as intelligence, for instance, and equity; (Er-Rághib, and so in some copies of the K;) [or goodness; ] and exce

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1. خَيْرٌ

xayorN xyr [ Good, moral or physical; anything that is good, real or ideal, and actual or potential; and, being originally an inf. n., used as sing and pl.;] a thing that all desire; such as intelligence, for instance, and equity; (Er-Rághib, and so in some copies of the K;) [or goodness; ] and exce

2. خِيرٌ

xiyrN xyr Generousness; generosity; (S, A, Msb, K;) liberality; munificence. (Msb.) You say, fulaAnN *uw xiyrK Such a one is a possessor of generousness, or generosity, &c. (Msb.) And huwa mino waAlxiyri ↓ A^aholi Alxayori [ He is of the people of good, or of wealth, &c., and of generosity ]. (A.) ―

3. خَيِّرٌ

xay~irN xyr , and its fem. xay~irapN , and pl. fem. xay~iraAtN : see xayorN , (used as an epithet,) in eight places, in the former half of the paragraph.

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Quran text from Tanzil (tanzil.net), distributed verbatim per its license. Morphological facts derived from the Quranic Arabic Corpus (corpus.quran.com, Kais Dukes), stated as facts with source credit. Dictionary senses from Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon (1863-93, public domain), via the Perseus Digital Library.