Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 28:8:4

لِيَكُونَ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text

Uthmani (as written): لِيَكُونَ Quranic text
Simple: لِيَكُونَ
Without tashkeel: ليكون
Normalised (searchable): ليكون

Position

Computed

Surah: 28 · The Stories
Verse: 28:8
Word in verse: 4
Token id: quran:tanzil-uthmani:28:8:4

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

Gloss: so that he might become
Transliteration: liyakūna

Root: ك و نk-w-n
Lemma: كانَ
Part of speech: Verb (V)
Features: tense: IMPFmood: SUBJperson: 3gender: Mnumber: singularverb_form: 1family: كَان

Sub-word segments

لِprefix · PRP
يَكُونَstem · V · ك و ن

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

The Stories 28:8Quranic text

فَٱلْتَقَطَهُۥٓ ءَالُ فِرْعَوْنَ لِيَكُونَ لَهُمْ عَدُوًّا وَحَزَنًا إِنَّ فِرْعَوْنَ وَهَٰمَٰنَ وَجُنُودَهُمَا كَانُوا۟خَٰطِـِٔينَ

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How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 28:8 — 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 →

Pharaoh’s household picked him up, to be an opponent and a sorrow for them. Pharaoh, Hamaan, and their troops were sinners

Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

And the family of Pharaoh took him up, that he might become for them an enemy and a sorrow, Lo! Pharaoh and Haman and their hosts were ever sinning

Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain

And Pharaoh's family took him up to be a foe and a sorrow to them, for sinners were Pharaoh and Haman and their hosts

Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain

And Pharaoh's family picked him up that he might be for them a foe and a grief; verily, Pharaoh and Haman and their hosts were sinners

Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 3 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form لِيَكُونَ appears 3 times in the corpus.

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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