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خَلِيل

khalīlan

(as) a friend

বন্ধুরূপে

Root letters: خ ل لAppears 4 times in the Qur'an#1,526 most frequentNoun (ism)Masculine (mudhakkar)
Learn it in lesson 153

About this word

Noun (ism)Masculine (mudhakkar)Root letters: خ ل ل

Singular & plural — as used in the Qur'an

  • Singular (mufrad)خَلِيلًۭا3 times
  • Plural (jamʿ)ٱلْأَخِلَّآءُ1 times

Forms in the Qur'an

  • خَلِيلًۭا(as) a friendkhalīlan · 3 times
  • ٱلْأَخِلَّآءُFriendsal-akhilāu · 1 times

Words from the same root

More words from the root خ ل ل — know one root, recognise many words.

Examples from the Qur'an

Oh, woe to me! I wish I had not taken that one as a friend.

Surah 25:28 — Read full ayah

Close friends, that Day, will be enemies to each other, except for the righteous

Surah 43:67 — Read full ayah

And indeed, they were about to tempt you away from that which We revealed to you in order to [make] you invent about Us something else; and then they would have taken you as a friend.

Surah 17:73 — Read full ayah