The Cow 2:103Quranic text
وَلَوْأَنَّهُمْءَامَنُوا۟وَٱتَّقَوْا۟لَمَثُوبَةٌمِّنْعِندِٱللَّهِخَيْرٌلَّوْكَانُوا۟يَعْلَمُونَ
Reference 2:103Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 2:103:11
كَانُوا۟
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- كَانُوا۟ Quranic text
- Simple
- كَانُوا
- Without tashkeel
- كانوا
- Normalised (searchable)
- كانوا
Position
Computed- Surah
- 2 · The Cow
- Verse
- 2:103
- Word in verse
- 11
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:2:103:11
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- they were
- Transliteration
- kānū
- Root
- ك و نk-w-n
- Lemma
- كانَ
- Part of speech
- Verb (V)
- Features
- tense: PERFperson: 3gender: Mnumber: pluralverb_form: 1family: كَان
Sub-word segments
- كَانُstem · V · ك و ن
- وا۟suffix · PRON
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 2:103 — 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 →
Had they believed and been righteous, the reward from God would have been better, if they only knewAnd if they had believed and kept from evil, a recompense from Allah would be better, if they only knewBut had they believed and feared God, better surely would have been the reward from God, - if they had but known itBut had they believed and feared, a reward from God were better, had they but knownSame form · 210 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form كَانُوا۟ appears 210 times in the corpus.
- كَانُوا۟2:10:11
- كَانُوا۟2:16:10
- كَانُوا۟2:59:17
- كَانُوا۟2:61:47
- كَانُوا۟2:102:73
- كَانُوا۟2:113:29
- كَانُوا۟2:134:14
- كَانُوا۟2:140:9
- كَانُوا۟2:141:14
- كَانُوا۟2:142:10
- كَانُوا۟3:24:14
- كَانُوا۟3:112:23
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
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