The Cow 2:57Quranic text
وَظَلَّلْنَاعَلَيْكُمُٱلْغَمَامَوَأَنزَلْنَاعَلَيْكُمُٱلْمَنَّوَٱلسَّلْوَىٰكُلُوا۟مِنطَيِّبَٰتِمَارَزَقْنَٰكُمْوَمَاظَلَمُونَاوَلَٰكِنكَانُوٓا۟أَنفُسَهُمْيَظْلِمُونَ
Reference 2:57Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 2:57:16
كَانُوٓا۟
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- كَانُوٓا۟ Quranic text
- Simple
- كَانُوٓا
- Without tashkeel
- كانوا
- Normalised (searchable)
- كانوا
Position
Computed- Surah
- 2 · The Cow
- Verse
- 2:57
- Word in verse
- 16
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:2:57:16
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
- وٓا۟suffix · 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 2:57 — 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 We shaded you with clouds, and We sent down to you manna and quails: “Eat of the good things We have provided for you.” They did not wrong Us, but they used to wrong their own soulsAnd We caused the white cloud to overshadow you and sent down on you the manna and the quails, (saying): Eat of the good things wherewith We have provided you - they wronged Us not, but they did wrong themselvesAnd we caused the clouds to overshadow you, and we sent down manna and quails upon you; - "Eat of the good things we have give you for sustenance;" - and they injured not us but they injured themselvesAnd we overshadowed you with the cloud, and sent down the manna and the quails; 'Eat of the good things we have given you.' They did not wrong us, but it was themselves they were wrongingSame form · 19 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form كَانُوٓا۟ appears 19 times in the corpus.
- كَانُوٓا۟4:12:66
- كَانُوٓا۟4:176:34
- كَانُوٓا۟7:160:41
- كَانُوٓا۟8:34:12
- كَانُوٓا۟9:69:4
- كَانُوٓا۟9:70:24
- كَانُوٓا۟9:113:10
- كَانُوٓا۟15:8:7
- كَانُوٓا۟16:33:20
- كَانُوٓا۟16:118:13
- كَانُوٓا۟17:27:3
- كَانُوٓا۟28:63:16
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
- كَانُوا۟2:59:17
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