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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 17:50:2

كُونُوا۟

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
كُونُوا۟ Quranic text
Simple
كُونُوا
Without tashkeel
كونوا
Normalised (searchable)
كونوا

Position

Computed
Verse
17:50
Word in verse
2
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:17:50:2

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
"Be
Transliteration
kūnū
Lemma
كانَ
Part of speech
Verb (V)
Features
tense: IMPVperson: 2gender: Mnumber: pluralverb_form: 1family: كَان

Sub-word segments

  1. كُونُstem · V · ك و ن
  2. وا۟suffix · PRON

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 17:50 — 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 →

Say, “Even if you become rocks or iron
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Say: Be ye stones or iron
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
SAY: "Yes, though ye were stones, or iron
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Say, 'Be ye stones, or iron
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 8 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form كُونُوا۟ 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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