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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 16:124:15

كَانُوا۟

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
كَانُوا۟ Quranic text
Simple
كَانُوا
Without tashkeel
كانوا
Normalised (searchable)
كانوا

Position

Computed
Verse
16:124
Word in verse
15
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:16:124:15

Morphology

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

Sub-word segments

  1. كَانُstem · V · ك و ن
  2. وا۟suffix · 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 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 16:124 — 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 →

The Sabbath was decreed only for those who differed about it. Your Lord will judge between them on the Day of Resurrection regarding their differences
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
The Sabbath was appointed only for those who differed concerning it, and lo! thy Lord will judge between them on the Day of Resurrection concerning that wherein they used to differ
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
The Sabbath was only ordained for those who differed about it: and of a truth thy Lord will decide between them on the day of resurrection as to the subject of their disputes
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
The Sabbath was only made for those who dispute thereon; but, verily, thy Lord will judge between them on the resurrection day concerning that whereon they do dispute
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 210 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form كَانُوا۟ appears 210 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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