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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 18:98:12

وَكَانَ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
18:98
Word in verse
12
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:18:98:12

Morphology

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

Sub-word segments

  1. وَprefix · CONJ
  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 18:98 — 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 →

He said, “This is a mercy from my Lord. But when the promise of my Lord comes true, He will turn it into rubble, and the promise of my Lord is always true.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
He said: This is a mercy from my Lord; but when the promise of my Lord cometh to pass, He will lay it low, for the promise of my Lord is true
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
This," said he, "is a mercy from my Lord: But when the promise of my Lord shall come to pass, he will turn it to dust; and the promise of my Lord is true
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Said he, 'This is a mercy from my Lord; but when the promise of my Lord comes to pass, He will make it as dust, for the promise of my Lord is true
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 84 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form وَكَانَ appears 84 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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