Morphology · Leeds QAC gloss (GPL)Reverse gloss lookup
“he was”
21 occurrences across 2 distinct roots carry the English gloss “he was”. This is a computed grouping of a word-level gloss from the Quranic Arabic Corpus — an external annotation, not a translation of any verse, and never Quranic text. Where more than one root appears below, those are different Arabic words rendered the same way in English.
Merged surface forms
5 verbatim glosses from the corpus differ only by punctuation or bracketed helpers and are grouped here; each is shown exactly as written.
- “he was”· 16
- “(he) was”· 2
- “(He) was”· 1
- “[he] (was)”· 1
- “he (was)”· 1
ك و نk-w-n
19 occurrencesكانَ· 19
+ 11 more occurrences
No triliteral root
2 occurrencesNo lemma· 2