The Night Journey 17:78Quranic text
أَقِمِٱلصَّلَوٰةَلِدُلُوكِٱلشَّمْسِإِلَىٰغَسَقِٱلَّيْلِوَقُرْءَانَٱلْفَجْرِإِنَّقُرْءَانَٱلْفَجْرِكَانَمَشْهُودًا
Reference 17:78Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 17:78:13
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
- 17:78
- Word in verse
- 13
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:17:78:13
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- is
- Transliteration
- kāna
- Root
- ك و نk-w-n
- Lemma
- كانَ
- Part of speech
- Verb (V)
- Features
- tense: PERFperson: 3gender: Mnumber: singularverb_form: 1family: كَان
Sub-word segments
- كَانَstem · 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 1.1How translators rendered it
Translation · 5 editionsThese translations render verse 17:78 — 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 →
Perform the prayer at the decline of the sun, until the darkness of the night; and the Quran at dawn. The Quran at dawn is witnessedEstablish worship at the going down of the sun until the dark of night, and (the recital of) the Qur'an at dawn. Lo! (the recital of) the Qur'an at dawn is ever witnessedObserve prayer at sunset, till the first darkening of the night, and the daybreak reading - for the daybreak reading hath its witnessesBe thou steadfast in prayer from the declining of the sun until the dusk of the night, and the reading of the dawn; verily, the reading of the dawn is ever testified toestablish the salat for the declining of the sun to darkening of the night and Quran the dawn indeed Quran the dawn he was witnessedGenerated from a table of word-by-word decisions, not written as prose. Arabic word order is preserved, so it reads stiffly and is not a substitute for a translation written by a person. Every verse is rendered, but the whole remains under review: words marked as judgement rest on weaker evidence than the rest and are flagged in place. No tafsir, hadith or existing translation was consulted.
Same form · 323 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form كَانَ appears 323 times in the corpus.
- كَانَ2:75:6
- كَانَ2:97:3
- كَانَ2:98:2
- كَانَ2:111:7
- كَانَ2:114:16
- كَانَ2:135:13
- كَانَ2:143:37
- كَانَ2:170:16
- كَانَ2:184:4
- كَانَ2:185:19
- كَانَ2:196:19
- كَانَ2:213:1
Root ك و ن · 1390 occurrences
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)The root ك و ن occurs 1390 times across 121 distinct forms.
- كَانُوا۟2:10:11
- كَانُوا۟2:16:10
- كُنتُمْ2:23:2
- كُنتُمْ2:23:19
- وَكُنتُمْ2:28:4
- كُنتُمْ2:31:14
- كُنتُمْ2:33:21
- وَكَانَ2:34:11
- فَتَكُونَا2:35:16
- كَانَا2:36:6
- تَكُونُوٓا۟2:41:8
- كَانُوٓا۟2:57:16
Cited by 0 investigations
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