Arabic vocabulary

خَلِيلَthe Friend of in Arabic

خَلِيلَ is how you say “the Friend of” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.

Example sentences

وَلَكِنْ إِئْتُوا إِبْرَاهِيمَ خَلِيلَ الرَّحْمَنِ
But go to Abraham, the Friend of the Most Merciful.
خَلِيلَ — the Friend of. A noun-epithet standing in apposition to the name before it, renaming the same person with a title; it shares that name's object case. It also heads a possessive pairing, taking the 'of' form's partner slot and reaching forward to the next word to say whose close friend he is. So it leans on what follows.
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