The Cow 2:16Quranic text
أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَٱلَّذِينَٱشْتَرَوُا۟ٱلضَّلَٰلَةَبِٱلْهُدَىٰفَمَارَبِحَتتِّجَٰرَتُهُمْوَمَاكَانُوا۟مُهْتَدِينَ
Reference 2:16Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 2:16:10
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
- 2:16
- Word in verse
- 10
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:2:16:10
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- were they
- 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 2:16 — 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 →
Those are they who have bartered error for guidance; but their trade does not profit them, and they are not guidedThese are they who purchase error at the price of guidance, so their commerce doth not prosper, neither are they guidedThese are they who have purchased error at the price of guidance: but their traffic hath not been gainful, neither are they guided at allThose who buy error for guidance, their traffic profits not, and they are not guidedSame form · 210 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form كَانُوا۟ appears 210 times in the corpus.
- كَانُوا۟2:10:11
- كَانُوا۟2:59:17
- كَانُوا۟2:61:47
- كَانُوا۟2:102:73
- كَانُوا۟2:103:11
- 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
- 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
- كَانُوا۟2:59:17
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