وَكَانُوا۟

Uthmani (as written)

وَكَانُوا۟ Quranic text

Simple

وَكَانُوا

Without tashkeel

وكانوا

Normalised (searchable)

وكانوا

Surah

12 · Joseph

Verse

12:57

Word in verse

6

Token id

quran:tanzil-uthmani:12:57:6

Gloss

and are

Transliteration

wakānū

Root

ك و نk-w-n

Lemma

كانَ

Part of speech

Verb (V)

Features

tense: PERFperson: 3gender: Mnumber: pluralverb_form: 1family: كَان

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.

These translations render verse 12:57 — 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 →

This 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
• وَكَانُوا۟12:20:6
• وَكَانُوا۟15:82:1

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

No published investigation cites this word yet. When one does, it appears here — the evidence links back to the argument.