وَكَانَ

Uthmani (as written)

وَكَانَ Quranic text

Simple

وَكَانَ

Without tashkeel

وكان

Normalised (searchable)

وكان

Surah

27 · The Ant

Verse

27:48

Word in verse

1

Token id

quran:tanzil-uthmani:27:48:1

Gloss

And were

Transliteration

wakāna

Root

ك و نk-w-n

Lemma

كانَ

Part of speech

Verb (V)

Features

tense: PERFperson: 3gender: Mnumber: singularverb_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 27:48 — 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 وَكَانَ appears 84 times in the corpus.

• وَكَانَ2:34:11
• وَكَانَ4:17:17
• وَكَانَ4:30:9
• وَكَانَ4:39:12
• وَكَانَ4:47:25
• وَكَانَ4:85:17
• وَكَانَ4:92:57
• وَكَانَ4:96:5
• وَكَانَ4:99:7
• وَكَانَ4:100:28
• وَكَانَ4:104:19
• وَكَانَ4:108:17

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.