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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 15:33:3

أَكُن

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
أَكُن Quranic text
Simple
أَكُن
Without tashkeel
أكن
Normalised (searchable)
اكن

Position

Computed
Surah
15 · The Rock
Verse
15:33
Word in verse
3
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:15:33:3

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
am I
Transliteration
akun
Root
ك و نk-w-n
Lemma
كانَ
Part of speech
Verb (V)
Features
tense: IMPFmood: JUSperson: 1number: singularverb_form: 1family: كَان

Sub-word segments

  1. أَكُنstem · 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 15:33 — 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, “I am not about to prostrate myself before a human being, whom You created from clay, from molded mud.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
He said: I am not one to prostrate myself unto a mortal whom Thou hast created out of potter's clay of black mud altered
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
He said, "It beseemeth not me to bow in worship to man whom thou hast created of clay, of moulded loam
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Said he, 'I would not adore a mortal whom Thou hast created from crackling clay of black mud wrought into form
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 3 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form أَكُن appears 3 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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