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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 13:32:12

كَانَ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
كَانَ Quranic text
Simple
كَانَ
Without tashkeel
كان
Normalised (searchable)
كان

Position

Computed
Verse
13:32
Word in verse
12
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:13:32:12

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
was
Transliteration
kāna
Lemma
كانَ
Part of speech
Verb (V)
Features
tense: PERFperson: 3gender: Mnumber: singularverb_form: 1family: كَان

Sub-word segments

  1. كَانَstem · V · ك و ن

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 13:32 — 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 →

Messengers before you were ridiculed, but I granted the disbelievers respite, and then I seized them. What a punishment it was
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And verily messengers (of Allah) were mocked before thee, but long I bore with those who disbelieved. At length I seized them, and how (awful) was My punishment
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Before thee indeed have apostles been mocked at; but though I bore long with the unbelievers, at last I seized upon them; - and how severe was my punishment
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Before thee have apostles been mocked at; and those who misbelieved have I allowed to range at large; and then it caught them up! How then was my punishment
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 323 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form كَانَ appears 323 times in the corpus.

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Root ك و ن · 1390 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

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

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