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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 23:46:5

وَكَانُوا۟

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
وَكَانُوا۟ Quranic text
Simple
وَكَانُوا
Without tashkeel
وكانوا
Normalised (searchable)
وكانوا

Position

Computed
Verse
23:46
Word in verse
5
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:23:46:5

Morphology

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

Sub-word segments

  1. وَprefix · CONJ
  2. كَانُstem · V · ك و ن
  3. 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 23:46 — 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 →

To Pharaoh and his nobles, but they turned arrogant. They were oppressive people
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Unto Pharaoh and his chiefs, but they scorned (them) and they were despotic folk
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
To Pharaoh and his princes; but they behaved them proudly, for they were a haughty people
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
and with plain authority to Pharaoh and his chiefs, but they were too big with pride, and were a haughty people
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 30 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form وَكَانُوا۟ appears 30 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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