Joseph 12:20Quranic text
وَشَرَوْهُبِثَمَنٍۭبَخْسٍدَرَٰهِمَمَعْدُودَةٍوَكَانُوا۟فِيهِمِنَٱلزَّٰهِدِينَ
Reference 12:20Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 12:20:6
وَكَانُوا۟
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- وَكَانُوا۟ Quranic text
- Simple
- وَكَانُوا
- Without tashkeel
- وكانوا
- Normalised (searchable)
- وكانوا
Position
Computed- Surah
- 12 · Joseph
- Verse
- 12:20
- Word in verse
- 6
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:12:20:6
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- and they were
- Transliteration
- wakānū
- Root
- ك و نk-w-n
- Lemma
- كانَ
- Part of speech
- Verb (V)
- Features
- tense: PERFperson: 3gender: Mnumber: pluralverb_form: 1family: كَان
Sub-word segments
- وَprefix · CONJ
- كَانُstem · V · ك و ن
- وا۟suffix · PRON
Morphology is an external annotation from the Leeds Quranic Arabic Corpus, licensed GPL-2.0-or-later. It is not Quranic text and never alters the token.
In context
Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1How translators rendered it
Translation · 4 editionsThese translations render verse 12:20 — the whole verse this word appears in — not this word alone. The correspondence is verse-level: no word-level alignment of translations exists for these editions, so we do not claim which English word renders this Arabic word. Compare the editions →
And they sold him for a cheap price—a few coins—they considered him to be of little valueAnd they sold him for a low price, a number of silver coins; and they attached no value to himAnd they sold him for a paltry price - for some dirhems counted down, and at no high rate did they value himAnd they sold him for a mean price,- drachmae counted out,- and they parted with him cheaplySame form · 30 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form وَكَانُوا۟ appears 30 times in the corpus.
- وَكَانُوا۟2:89:10
- وَكَانُوا۟5:44:21
- وَكَانُوا۟6:159:5
- وَكَانُوا۟7:133:11
- وَكَانُوا۟7:136:9
- وَكَانُوا۟7:146:34
- وَكَانُوا۟7:148:21
- وَكَانُوا۟10:63:3
- وَكَانُوا۟10:75:12
- وَكَانُوا۟11:116:25
- وَكَانُوا۟12:57:6
- وَكَانُوا۟15:82:1
Root ك و ن · 1390 occurrences
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)The root ك و ن occurs 1390 times across 121 distinct forms.
- كَانُوا۟2:10:11
- كَانُوا۟2:16:10
- كُنتُمْ2:23:2
- كُنتُمْ2:23:19
- وَكُنتُمْ2:28:4
- كُنتُمْ2:31:14
- كُنتُمْ2:33:21
- وَكَانَ2:34:11
- فَتَكُونَا2:35:16
- كَانَا2:36:6
- تَكُونُوٓا۟2:41:8
- كَانُوٓا۟2:57:16
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