The Prophets 21:11Quranic text
وَكَمْقَصَمْنَامِنقَرْيَةٍكَانَتْظَالِمَةًوَأَنشَأْنَابَعْدَهَاقَوْمًاءَاخَرِينَ
Reference 21:11Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 21:11:5
كَانَتْ
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- كَانَتْ Quranic text
- Simple
- كَانَتْ
- Without tashkeel
- كانت
- Normalised (searchable)
- كانت
Position
Computed- Surah
- 21 · The Prophets
- Verse
- 21:11
- Word in verse
- 5
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:21:11:5
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- (that) was
- Transliteration
- kānat
- Root
- ك و نk-w-n
- Lemma
- كانَ
- Part of speech
- Verb (V)
- Features
- tense: PERFperson: 3gender: Fnumber: singularverb_form: 1family: كَان
Sub-word segments
- كَانَتْstem · V · ك و ن
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 21:11 — 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 →
How many a guilty town have We crushed, and established thereafter another peopleHow many a community that dealt unjustly have We shattered, and raised up after them another folkAnd how many a guilty city have we broken down, and raised up after it other peoplesHow many a city which had done wrong have we broken up, and raised up after it another peopleSame form · 23 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form كَانَتْ appears 23 times in the corpus.
- كَانَتْ2:94:3
- كَانَتْ2:143:29
- كَانَتْ4:11:19
- كَانَتْ4:103:16
- كَانَتْ7:83:5
- كَانَتْ7:157:29
- كَانَتْ7:163:5
- كَانَتْ10:98:2
- كَانَتْ16:112:5
- كَانَتْ18:101:2
- كَانَتْ18:107:6
- كَانَتْ19:28:9
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
Cited by 0 investigations
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