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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 24:24:8

كَانُوا۟

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
كَانُوا۟ Quranic text
Simple
كَانُوا
Without tashkeel
كانوا
Normalised (searchable)
كانوا

Position

Computed
Verse
24:24
Word in verse
8
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:24:24:8

Morphology

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

Sub-word segments

  1. كَانُstem · V · ك و ن
  2. 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 24:24 — 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 →

On the Day when their tongues, and their hands, and their feet will testify against them regarding what they used to do
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
On the day when their tongues and their hands and their feet testify against them as to what they used to do
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Their own tongues, and hands, and feet, shall one day bear witness against them of their own doings
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
The day when their tongues and hands and feet shall bear witness against them of what they did
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 210 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form كَانُوا۟ appears 210 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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