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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 19:14:4

يَكُن

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
19:14
Word in verse
4
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:19:14:4

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
he was
Transliteration
yakun
Lemma
كانَ
Part of speech
Verb (V)
Features
tense: IMPFmood: JUSperson: 3gender: Mnumber: singularverb_form: 1family: كَان

Sub-word segments

  1. يَكُنstem · V · ك و ن

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 19:14 — 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 kind to his parents; and he was not a disobedient tyrant
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And dutiful toward his parents. And he was not arrogant, rebellious
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
and duteous to his parents; and not proud, rebellious
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
and righteous to his parents, and was not a rebellious tyrant
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 24 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form يَكُن appears 24 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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