The Prophets 21:82Quranic text
وَمِنَٱلشَّيَٰطِينِمَنيَغُوصُونَلَهُۥوَيَعْمَلُونَعَمَلًادُونَذَٰلِكَوَكُنَّالَهُمْحَٰفِظِينَ
Reference 21:82Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 21:82:10
وَكُنَّا
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- وَكُنَّا Quranic text
- Simple
- وَكُنَّا
- Without tashkeel
- وكنا
- Normalised (searchable)
- وكنا
Position
Computed- Surah
- 21 · The Prophets
- Verse
- 21:82
- Word in verse
- 10
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:21:82:10
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- And We were
- Transliteration
- wakunnā
- Root
- ك و نk-w-n
- Lemma
- كانَ
- Part of speech
- Verb (V)
- Features
- tense: PERFperson: 1number: pluralverb_form: 1family: كَان
Sub-word segments
- وَprefix · CONJ
- كُstem · V · ك و ن
- 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 1.1How translators rendered it
Translation · 4 editionsThese translations render verse 21:82 — 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 of the devils were some that dived for him, and performed other, lesser tasks. But We kept them restrainedAnd of the evil ones (subdued We unto him) some who dived (for pearls) for him and did other work, and We were warders unto themAnd sundry Satans who should dive for him and perform other work beside: and we kept watch over themand some devils to dive for him, and to do other works beside that; and we kept guard over themSame form · 16 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form وَكُنَّا appears 16 times in the corpus.
- وَكُنَّا7:173:8
- وَكُنَّا21:51:7
- وَكُنَّا21:78:12
- وَكُنَّا21:79:13
- وَكُنَّا21:81:11
- وَكُنَّا23:82:4
- وَكُنَّا23:106:6
- وَكُنَّا27:42:13
- وَكُنَّا28:58:15
- وَكُنَّا37:16:3
- وَكُنَّا37:53:3
- وَكُنَّا50:3:3
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
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