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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 29:48:2

كُنتَ

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
كُنتَ Quranic text
Simple
كُنتَ
Without tashkeel
كنت
Normalised (searchable)
كنت

Position

Computed
Verse
29:48
Word in verse
2
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:29:48:2

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Transliteration
kunta
Lemma
كانَ
Part of speech
Verb (V)
Features
tense: PERFperson: 2gender: Mnumber: singularverb_form: 1family: كَان

Sub-word segments

  1. كُنstem · V · ك و ن
  2. تَsuffix · 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 29:48 — 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 →

You did not read any scripture before this, nor did you write it down with your right hand; otherwise the falsifiers would have doubted
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And thou (O Muhammad) wast not a reader of any scripture before it, nor didst thou write it with thy right hand, for then might those have doubted, who follow falsehood
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Thou didst not recite any book (of revelation) before it: with that right hand of thine thou didst not transcribe one: else might they who treat it as a vain thing have justly doubted
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Thou couldst not recite before this any book, nor write it with thy right hand, for in that case those who deem it vain would have doubted
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 35 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form كُنتَ appears 35 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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