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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 12:33:15

وَأَكُن

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
وَأَكُن Quranic text
Simple
وَأَكُن
Without tashkeel
وأكن
Normalised (searchable)
واكن

Position

Computed
Verse
12:33
Word in verse
15
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:12:33:15

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Transliteration
wa-akun
Lemma
كانَ
Part of speech
Verb (V)
Features
tense: IMPFmood: JUSperson: 1number: singularverb_form: 1family: كَان

Sub-word segments

  1. وَprefix · CONJ
  2. أَكُنstem · V · ك و ن

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 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 12:33 — 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 →

He said, “My Lord, prison is more desirable to me than what they call me to. Unless You turn their scheming away from me, I may yield to them, and become one of the ignorant.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
He said: O my Lord! Prison is more dear than that unto which they urge me, and if Thou fend not off their wiles from me I shall incline unto them and become of the foolish
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
He said, "O my Lord! I prefer the prison to compliance with their bidding: but unless thou turn away their snares from me, I shall play the youth with them, and become one of the unwise
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Said he, 'My Lord! Prison is dearer to me than what they call on me to do; and unless Thou turn from me their craftiness I shall feel a passion for them and shall be among the ignorant
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 2 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form وَأَكُن appears 2 times in the corpus.

Root ك و ن · 1390 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ك و ن occurs 1390 times across 121 distinct forms.

See the full root page for ك و ن

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