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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 18:80:3

فَكَانَ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
18:80
Word in verse
3
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:18:80:3

Morphology

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

Sub-word segments

  1. فَprefix · REM
  2. 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 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 18:80 — 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 →

As for the boy, his parents were believers, and we feared he would overwhelm them with oppression and disbelief
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And as for the lad, his parents were believers and we feared lest he should oppress them by rebellion and disbelief
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
As to the youth his parents were believers, and we feared lest he should trouble them by error and infidelity
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
And as for the youth, his parents were believers, and we feared lest he should impose upon them rebellion and misbelief
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 8 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form فَكَانَ 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.

See the full root page for ك و ن

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