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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 21:77:8

كَانُوا۟

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
كَانُوا۟ Quranic text
Simple
كَانُوا
Without tashkeel
كانوا
Normalised (searchable)
كانوا

Position

Computed
Verse
21:77
Word in verse
8
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:21:77:8

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
were
Transliteration
kānū
Lemma
كانَ
Part of speech
Verb (V)
Features
tense: PERFperson: 3gender: Mnumber: pluralverb_form: 1family: كَان

Sub-word segments

  1. كَانُstem · V · ك و ن
  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 21:77 — 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 supported him against the people who rejected Our signs. They were an evil people, so We drowned them all
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And delivered him from the people who denied Our revelations. Lo! they were folk of evil, therefor did We drown them all
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
And we helped him against the people who treated our signs as impostures. An evil people verily were they, and we drowned them all
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
and we helped him against the people who said our signs were lies; verily, they were a bad people, so we drowned them all together
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 210 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form كَانُوا۟ appears 210 times in the corpus.

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Root ك و ن · 1390 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ك و ن occurs 1390 times across 121 distinct forms.

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