The Ant 27:42Quranic text
فَلَمَّاجَآءَتْقِيلَأَهَٰكَذَاعَرْشُكِقَالَتْكَأَنَّهُۥهُوَوَأُوتِينَاٱلْعِلْمَمِنقَبْلِهَاوَكُنَّامُسْلِمِينَ
Reference 27:42Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 27:42:13
وَكُنَّا
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- وَكُنَّا Quranic text
- Simple
- وَكُنَّا
- Without tashkeel
- وكنا
- Normalised (searchable)
- وكنا
Position
Computed- Surah
- 27 · The Ant
- Verse
- 27:42
- Word in verse
- 13
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:27:42:13
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- and we have been
- Transliteration
- wakunnā
- Root
- ك و نk-w-n
- Lemma
- كانَ
- Part of speech
- Verb (V)
- Features
- tense: PERFperson: 1number: pluralverb_form: 1family: كَان
Sub-word segments
- وَprefix · CONJ
- كُstem · V · ك و ن
- 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 1.1How translators rendered it
Translation · 4 editionsThese translations render verse 27:42 — 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 she arrived, it was said, “Is your throne like this?” She said, “As if this is it.” “We were given knowledge before her, and we were submissive.”So, when she came, it was said (unto her): Is thy throne like this? She said: (It is) as though it were the very one. And (Solomon said): We were given the knowledge before her and we had surrendered (to Allah)And when she came he said, "Is thy throne like this?" She said, "As though it were the same." "And we," said he, "have had knowledge given us before her, and have been MuslimsAnd when she came it was said, 'Was thy throne like this?' She said, 'It might be it;' and we were given knowledge before her, but we were resignedSame form · 16 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form وَكُنَّا appears 16 times in the corpus.
- وَكُنَّا7:173:8
- وَكُنَّا21:51:7
- وَكُنَّا21:78:12
- وَكُنَّا21:79:13
- وَكُنَّا21:81:11
- وَكُنَّا21:82:10
- وَكُنَّا23:82:4
- وَكُنَّا23:106:6
- وَكُنَّا28:58:15
- وَكُنَّا37:16:3
- وَكُنَّا37:53:3
- وَكُنَّا50:3:3
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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