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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 3:67:12

كَانَ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
3:67
Word in verse
12
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:3:67:12

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
he was
Transliteration
kāna
Lemma
كانَ
Part of speech
Verb (V)
Features
tense: PERFperson: 3gender: Mnumber: singularverb_form: 1family: كَان

Sub-word segments

  1. كَانَstem · V · ك و ن

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 3:67 — 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 →

Abraham was neither a Jew nor a Christian, but he was a Monotheist, a Muslim. And he was not of the Polytheists
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Abraham was not a Jew, nor yet a Christian; but he was an upright man who had surrendered (to Allah), and he was not of the idolaters
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Abraham was neither Jew nor Christian; but he was sound in the faith, a Muslim; and not of those who add gods to God
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Abraham was not a Jew, nor yet a Christian, but he was a `Hanif resigned, and not of the idolaters
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 323 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form كَانَ appears 323 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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