كُنَّا

Uthmani (as written)

كُنَّا Quranic text

Simple

كُنَّا

Without tashkeel

كنا

Normalised (searchable)

كنا

Surah

23 · The Believers

Verse

23:17

Word in verse

7

Token id

quran:tanzil-uthmani:23:17:7

Gloss

We are

Transliteration

kunnā

Root

ك و نk-w-n

Lemma

كانَ

Part of speech

Verb (V)

Features

tense: PERFperson: 1number: pluralverb_form: 1family: كَان

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.

These translations render verse 23:17 — 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 →

This exact written form كُنَّا appears 62 times in the corpus.

• كُنَّا4:97:11
• كُنَّا6:23:11
• كُنَّا6:156:11
• كُنَّا7:5:11
• كُنَّا7:7:5
• كُنَّا7:43:18
• كُنَّا7:53:29
• كُنَّا7:88:20
• كُنَّا7:113:9
• كُنَّا7:172:23
• كُنَّا9:65:5
• كُنَّا10:29:7

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

No published investigation cites this word yet. When one does, it appears here — the evidence links back to the argument.