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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 2:71:23

كَادُوا۟

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
كَادُوا۟ Quranic text
Simple
كَادُوا
Without tashkeel
كادوا
Normalised (searchable)
كادوا

Position

Computed
Surah
2 · The Cow
Verse
2:71
Word in verse
23
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:2:71:23

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
they were near
Transliteration
kādū
Root
ك و دk-w-d
Lemma
كادَ
Part of speech
Verb (V)
Features
tense: PERFperson: 3gender: Mnumber: pluralverb_form: 1family: كَاد

Sub-word segments

  1. كَادُstem · V · ك و د
  2. 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 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 2:71 — 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, “He says she is a heifer, neither yoked to plow the earth, nor to irrigate the field; sound without blemish.” They said, “Now you have brought the truth.” So they slew her; though they almost did not
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
(Moses) answered: Lo! He saith: Verily she is a cow unyoked; she plougheth not the soil nor watereth the tilth; whole and without mark. They said: Now thou bringest the truth. So they sacrificed her, though almost they did not
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
He said, "God saith, 'She is a cow not worn by ploughing the earth or watering the field, sound, no blemish in her.' " They said, "Now hast thou brought the truth:" Then they sacrificed her; Yet nearly had they done it not
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
He answered, 'He saith, it is a cow, not broken in to plough the earth or irrigate the tilth, a sound one with no blemish on her.' They said, 'Now hast thou brought the truth.' And they slaughtered her, though they came near leaving it undone
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 4 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form كَادُوا۟ appears 4 times in the corpus.

Root ك و د · 24 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ك و د occurs 24 times across 10 distinct forms.

See the full root page for ك و د →

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