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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 26:41:10

كُنَّا

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
كُنَّا Quranic text
Simple
كُنَّا
Without tashkeel
كنا
Normalised (searchable)
كنا

Position

Computed
Verse
26:41
Word in verse
10
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:26:41:10

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
are
Transliteration
kunnā
Lemma
كانَ
Part of speech
Verb (V)
Features
tense: PERFperson: 1number: pluralverb_form: 1family: كَان

Sub-word segments

  1. كُstem · V · ك و ن
  2. 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 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 26:41 — 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 →

When the magicians arrived, they said to Pharaoh, “Is there a reward for us, if we are the winners?”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And when the wizards came they said unto Pharaoh: Will there surely be a reward for us if we are the winners
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
And when the magicians were arrived they said to Pharaoh, "Shall we have a reward if we gain the day
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
And when the sorcerers came they said to Pharaoh, 'Shall we, verily, have a hire if we gain the upper hand
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 62 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form كُنَّا appears 62 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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