The Stories 28:59Quranic text
وَمَاكَانَرَبُّكَمُهْلِكَٱلْقُرَىٰحَتَّىٰيَبْعَثَفِىٓأُمِّهَارَسُولًايَتْلُوا۟عَلَيْهِمْءَايَٰتِنَاوَمَاكُنَّامُهْلِكِىٱلْقُرَىٰٓإِلَّاوَأَهْلُهَاظَٰلِمُونَ
Reference 28:59Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 28:59:15
كُنَّا
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- كُنَّا Quranic text
- Simple
- كُنَّا
- Without tashkeel
- كنا
- Normalised (searchable)
- كنا
Position
Computed- Surah
- 28 · The Stories
- Verse
- 28:59
- Word in verse
- 15
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:28:59:15
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- We would be
- Transliteration
- kunnā
- Root
- ك و نk-w-n
- Lemma
- كانَ
- Part of speech
- Verb (V)
- Features
- tense: PERFperson: 1number: pluralverb_form: 1family: كَان
Sub-word segments
- 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 28:59 — 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 →
Your Lord never destroys cities without first sending a messenger in their midst, reciting to them Our revelations. And We never destroy the cities, unless their people are wrongdoersAnd never did thy Lord destroy the townships, till He had raised up in their mother(-town) a messenger reciting unto them Our revelations. And never did We destroy the townships unless the folk thereof were evil-doersBut thy Lord did not destroy the cities till He had sent an apostle to their mother-city to rehearse our signs to its people: nor did we destroy the cities unless its people were unjustBut thy Lord would never destroy cities until He sent to the metropolis thereof an apostle, to recite to them our signs; nor would we destroy cities unless their people were unjustSame form · 62 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form كُنَّا appears 62 times in the corpus.
- كُنَّا4:97:11
- كُنَّا6:23:11
- كُنَّا6:156:11
- كُنَّا7:5:11
- كُنَّا7:7:5
- كُنَّا7:43:18
- كُنَّا7:53:29
- كُنَّا7:88:20
- كُنَّا7:113:9
- كُنَّا7:172:23
- كُنَّا9:65:5
- كُنَّا10:29:7
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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