Joseph 12:82Quranic text
وَسْـَٔلِٱلْقَرْيَةَٱلَّتِىكُنَّافِيهَاوَٱلْعِيرَٱلَّتِىٓأَقْبَلْنَافِيهَاوَإِنَّالَصَٰدِقُونَ
Reference 12:82Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 12:82:4
كُنَّا
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- كُنَّا Quranic text
- Simple
- كُنَّا
- Without tashkeel
- كنا
- Normalised (searchable)
- كنا
Position
Computed- Surah
- 12 · Joseph
- Verse
- 12:82
- Word in verse
- 4
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:12:82:4
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- we were
- Transliteration
- kunnā
- Root
- ك و نk-w-n
- Lemma
- كانَ
- Part of speech
- Verb (V)
- Features
- tense: PERFperson: 1number: pluralverb_form: 1family: كَان
Sub-word segments
- كُstem · V · ك و ن
- نَّاsuffix · 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 12:82 — 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 →
“Ask the town where we were, and the caravan in which we came. We are being truthful.”Ask the township where we were, and the caravan with which we travelled hither. Lo! we speak the truthEnquire for thyself in the city where we have been, and of the caravan with which we have arrived; and we are surely speakers of the truthAsk then in the city where we were, and of the caravan in which we approached it, for, verily, we tell the truthSame form · 62 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form كُنَّا appears 62 times in the corpus.
- كُنَّا4:97:11
- كُنَّا6:23:11
- كُنَّا6:156:11
- كُنَّا7:5:11
- كُنَّا7:7:5
- كُنَّا7:43:18
- كُنَّا7:53:29
- كُنَّا7:88:20
- كُنَّا7:113:9
- كُنَّا7:172:23
- كُنَّا9:65:5
- كُنَّا10:29:7
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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