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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 21:81:11

وَكُنَّا

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
وَكُنَّا Quranic text
Simple
وَكُنَّا
Without tashkeel
وكنا
Normalised (searchable)
وكنا

Position

Computed
Verse
21:81
Word in verse
11
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:21:81:11

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Transliteration
wakunnā
Lemma
كانَ
Part of speech
Verb (V)
Features
tense: PERFperson: 1number: pluralverb_form: 1family: كَان

Sub-word segments

  1. وَprefix · CONJ
  2. كُstem · V · ك و ن
  3. نَّاsuffix · 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 21:81 — 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 to Solomon the stormy wind, blowing at His command towards the land that We have blessed. We are aware of everything
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And unto Solomon (We subdued) the wind in its raging. It set by his command toward the land which We had blessed. And of everything We are Aware
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
And to Solomon we subjected we subjected the strongly blowing wind; it sped at his bidding to the land we had blessed; for we know all things
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
And to Solomon (we subjected) the wind blowing stormily, to run on at his bidding to the land which Ave have blessed, - for all things did we know
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 16 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form وَكُنَّا appears 16 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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