The Prophets 21:99Quranic text
لَوْكَانَهَٰٓؤُلَآءِءَالِهَةًمَّاوَرَدُوهَاوَكُلٌّفِيهَاخَٰلِدُونَ
Reference 21:99Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 21:99:2
كَانَ
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- كَانَ Quranic text
- Simple
- كَانَ
- Without tashkeel
- كان
- Normalised (searchable)
- كان
Position
Computed- Surah
- 21 · The Prophets
- Verse
- 21:99
- Word in verse
- 2
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:21:99:2
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- were
- Transliteration
- kāna
- Root
- ك و نk-w-n
- Lemma
- كانَ
- Part of speech
- Verb (V)
- Features
- tense: PERFperson: 3gender: Mnumber: singularverb_form: 1family: كَان
Sub-word segments
- كَانَstem · 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 21:99 — 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 →
Had these been gods, they would not have descended into it. All will abide in itIf these had been gods they would not have come thither, but all will abide thereinWere these gods, they would not go down into it; but they shall all abide in it for everHad these been God's they would not have gone down thereto: but all shall dwell therein for ayeSame form · 323 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form كَانَ appears 323 times in the corpus.
- كَانَ2:75:6
- كَانَ2:97:3
- كَانَ2:98:2
- كَانَ2:111:7
- كَانَ2:114:16
- كَانَ2:135:13
- كَانَ2:143:37
- كَانَ2:170:16
- كَانَ2:184:4
- كَانَ2:185:19
- كَانَ2:196:19
- كَانَ2:213:1
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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