The Stories 28:58Quranic text
وَكَمْأَهْلَكْنَامِنقَرْيَةٍۭبَطِرَتْمَعِيشَتَهَافَتِلْكَمَسَٰكِنُهُمْلَمْتُسْكَنمِّنۢبَعْدِهِمْإِلَّاقَلِيلًاوَكُنَّانَحْنُٱلْوَٰرِثِينَ
Reference 28:58Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 28:58:15
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
- 28 · The Stories
- Verse
- 28:58
- Word in verse
- 15
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:28:58:15
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- And indeed, [We]
- 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 28:58 — 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 →
And how many a city did We destroy for turning unappreciative of its livelihood? Here are their homes, uninhabited after them, except for a few. And We became the InheritorsAnd how many a community have We destroyed that was thankless for its means of livelihood! And yonder are their dwellings, which have not been inhabited after them save a little. And We, even We, were the inheritorsAnd how many cities have we destroyed that flourished in wanton ease! And these their dwellings have not been inhabited since their time save by a few, and it is we who became their heirsHow many a city have we destroyed that exulted in its means of subsistence? These are their dwellings, never dwelt in after them, except a little; for we were the heirsSame 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
- وَكُنَّا27:42:13
- 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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