Morphology · Leeds QAC gloss (GPL)Reverse gloss lookup
“were”
48 occurrences across 1 distinct root carry the English gloss “were”. 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.
- “were”· 39
- “[were]”· 4
- “were,”· 3
- “Were”· 1
- “were -”· 1
ك و نk-w-n
48 occurrencesكانَ· 48
- كَانُوا۟2:140:9
- كَانَ2:170:16
- كَانَ3:147:2
- كَانُوا۟6:130:26
- كُنَّا7:5:11
- كَانُوا۟7:37:36
- كَانُوا۟7:64:12
- كَانُوا۟7:137:4
+ 40 more occurrences