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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 16:120:9

يَكُ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
16:120
Word in verse
9
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:16:120:9

Morphology

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

Sub-word segments

  1. يَكُstem · 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 16:120 — 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 →

Abraham was an exemplary leader, devoted to God, a monotheist, and was not of the polytheists
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Lo! Abraham was a nation obedient to Allah, by nature upright, and he was not of the idolaters
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Verily, Abraham was a leader in religion: obedient to God, sound in faith: he was not of those who join gods with God
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Verily, Abraham was a high priest, a 'Hanif, and was not of the idolaters
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 8 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form يَكُ appears 8 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.

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