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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 28:63:16

كَانُوٓا۟

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
كَانُوٓا۟ Quranic text
Simple
كَانُوٓا
Without tashkeel
كانوا
Normalised (searchable)
كانوا

Position

Computed
Verse
28:63
Word in verse
16
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:28:63:16

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Transliteration
kānū
Lemma
كانَ
Part of speech
Verb (V)
Features
tense: PERFperson: 3gender: Mnumber: pluralverb_form: 1family: كَان

Sub-word segments

  1. كَانُstem · V · ك و ن
  2. وٓا۟suffix · 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 28:63 — 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 →

Those against whom the sentence is justified will say, “Our Lord, these are they whom we misled. We misled them, as we were misled. We beg Your forgiveness; it was not us they used to worship.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Those concerning whom the Word will have come true will say: Our Lord! These are they whom we led astray. We led them astray even as we ourselves were astray. We declare our innocence before Thee: us they never worshipped
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
They on whom doom shall be justly pronounced will say, "O our Lord! these are they whom we led astray: we led them astray even as we had been led astray ourselves: Thou hast no cause of blame against us: It was not we whom they worshipped
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
And those against whom the sentence is due shall say, 'Our Lord! these are those whom we have seduced; we seduced them as we were seduced ourselves: but we clear ourselves to thee;- they ,did not worship us
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 19 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form كَانُوٓا۟ appears 19 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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