The Cave 18:34Quranic text
وَكَانَلَهُۥثَمَرٌفَقَالَلِصَٰحِبِهِۦوَهُوَيُحَاوِرُهُۥٓأَنَا۠أَكْثَرُمِنكَمَالًاوَأَعَزُّنَفَرًا
Reference 18:34Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 18:34:1
وَكَانَ
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- وَكَانَ Quranic text
- Simple
- وَكَانَ
- Without tashkeel
- وكان
- Normalised (searchable)
- وكان
Position
Computed- Surah
- 18 · The Cave
- Verse
- 18:34
- Word in verse
- 1
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:18:34:1
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- And was
- Transliteration
- wakāna
- 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
- وَprefix · CONJ
- 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 · 4 editionsThese translations render verse 18:34 — 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 →
And thus he had abundant fruits. He said to his friend, as he conversed with him, “I am wealthier than you, and greater in manpower.”And he had fruit. And he said unto his comrade, when he spake with him: I am more than thee in wealth, and stronger in respect of menAnd this man received his fruit, and said, disputing with him, to his companion, "More have I than thou of wealth, and my family is mightierand he had fruit, and said unto his fellow, who was his next-door neighbour, 'I am more wealthy than thee, and mightier of householdSame form · 84 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form وَكَانَ appears 84 times in the corpus.
- وَكَانَ2:34:11
- وَكَانَ4:17:17
- وَكَانَ4:30:9
- وَكَانَ4:39:12
- وَكَانَ4:47:25
- وَكَانَ4:85:17
- وَكَانَ4:92:57
- وَكَانَ4:96:5
- وَكَانَ4:99:7
- وَكَانَ4:100:28
- وَكَانَ4:104:19
- وَكَانَ4:108:17
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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