# خير
## Algerian Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic خَيْر (ḵayr).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /xiːr/

### Noun

خير (ḵīr) m
* goodness, good

## Arabic
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /xajr/
* Moroccan: IPA: /xajr/, /xiːr/
* Egyptian: IPA: /xiːr/, /xeːr/
* Kuwaiti: IPA: /xeːr/
* Jordanian: IPA: /xeːr/

### Noun

خَيْر • (ḵayr) m (plural خِيَار (ḵiyār) or خُيُور (ḵuyūr) or أَخْيَار (ʔaḵyār))
* goodness, good
    بِخَيْرٍ ― biḵayrin ― well
** 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 17:11:وَيَدْعُ ٱلْإِنْسَانُ بِٱلشَّرِّ دُعَاءَهُ بِٱلْخَيْرِwayadʕu l-ʔinsānu bi-š-šarri duʕāʔahū bi-l-ḵayri(please add an English translation of this quotation)
** 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 99:7-8:فَمَنْ يَعْمَلْ مِثْقَالَ ذَرَّةٍ خَيْرًا يَرَهُ / وَمَنْ يَعْمَلْ مِثْقَالَ ذَرَّةٍ شَرًّا يَرَهُfa-man yaʕmal miṯqāla ḏarratin ḵayran yarahu / wa-man yaʕmal miṯqāla ḏarratin šarran yarahuSo whoever does an atom's weight of good will see it, / And whoever does an atom's weight of evil will see it.
* charity; welfare
* (archaic) wealth; money
** 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 100:8:وَإِنَّهُ لِحُبِّ ٱلْخَيْرِ لَشَدِيدٌwaʔinnahu liḥubbi l-ḵayri lašadīdunAnd indeed he is, in love of wealth, intense.

#### Antonyms

* شَرّ (šarr)

#### Derived terms

* صَبَاحُ ٱلْخَيْرِ (ṣabāḥu l-ḵayri)
* تُصْبِحُ عَلَى خَيْرٍ (tuṣbiḥu ʕalā ḵayrin)
* بِخَيْرٍ (biḵayrin)
* مَسَاءُ ٱلْخَيْرِ (masāʔu l-ḵayri)

#### Descendants

* Maltese: ħajr
* → Azerbaijani: xeyir
* → Armenian: խեր (xer)
* → Bashkir: хәйер (xəyer)
* → Georgian: ხეირი (xeiri)
* →? Old Armenian: խայրի (xayri)
* → Ottoman Turkish: خیر
** Turkish: hayır
** → Greek: χαΐρι (chaḯri)
** → Ladino: hayre
* → Classical Persian: خیر (xayr)
** Dari: خَیْر (xayr)
** Iranian Persian: خِیْر (xeyr)
** Tajik: хайр (xayr)
** → Chagatai:
*** Uyghur: خەير (xeyr)
*** Uzbek: xayr
** → Gujarati: ખૈર (khair)
** → Hindustani:
    Hindi: ख़ैर (xair)
    Urdu: خَیر (xair)
** → Punjabi:
    Gurmukhi script: ਖੈਰ (khair)
    Shahmukhi script: خَیر (xair)
* → Turkmen: haýyr
* → Swahili: heri
* → Somali: khayr

### Verb

خَيَّرَ • (ḵayyara) II (non-past يُخَيِّرُ (yuḵayyiru), verbal noun تَخْيِير (taḵyīr))
* to grant a choice, to let choose

#### Conjugation
### Adjective

خَيْر • (ḵayr)
* better; best

#### Derived terms

* رَهَبُوتٌ خَيْرٌ لَكَ مِنْ رَحَمُوتٍ (rahabūtun ḵayrun laka min raḥamūtin)

### Adjective

خَيِّر • (ḵayyir) (feminine خَيِّرَة (ḵayyira), common plural أَخْيَار (ʔaḵyār) or خِيَار (ḵiyār), masculine plural خَيِّرُونَ (ḵayyirūna), feminine plural خَيِّرَات (ḵayyirāt), elative خَيْر (ḵayr))
* beneficent, benevolent

#### Antonyms

* شِرِّير (širrīr)

### References

* Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “خير”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎ (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 415
* Freytag, Georg (1830) “خير”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 540
* Lane, Edward William (1863) “خير”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 828–830
* Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “خير”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen, page 347
* Wehr, Hans (1979) “خير”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 308

## Hijazi Arabic
### Etymology 1

From Arabic خَيْر (ḵayr).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /xeːr/, [xe̞ːr]

#### Noun

خير • (ḵēr) m (plural أَخْيَار (ʔaḵyār))
* goodness, good
* wealth

### Etymology 2

From Arabic خَيَّرَ (ḵayyara).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /xaj.jar/

#### Verb

خَيَّر • (ḵayyar) II (non-past يِخَيِّر (yiḵayyir))
* to grant a choice, to let choose

##### Conjugation
## South Levantine Arabic
### Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /xaj.jar/, [ˈxaj.jar]
* Audio (al-Lidd):(file)

#### Verb

خيّر • (ḵayyar) II (present بخيّر (biḵayyir))
* to make (someone) choose, to give (someone) a choice
    إذا لا سمح الله ارتكبت جريمة كبيرة وخيّروك إنّه يحكموا عليك بالإعدام أو السجن المؤبد، إيش بتختار؟ʔiza la samaḥ ʔaḷḷa rtakabt jarīme kbīre w-ḵayyarūk ʔinno yoḥkomu ʕalēk bil-ʔiʕdām ʔaw is-sijn li-mʔabbad, ʔēš btiḵtār?If, God forbid, you committed a major crime and you had to choose (literally: they made you choose) [between] them sentencing you to death or life imprisonment, what would you choose?

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 2

Semi-learned borrowing from Arabic خَيْر (ḵayr).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /xeːr/, [xeːr]
* Audio (Ramallah):(file)

#### Noun

خير • (ḵēr, ḵayr) m
* goodness, good