The Romans 30:42Quranic text
قُلْسِيرُوا۟فِىٱلْأَرْضِفَٱنظُرُوا۟كَيْفَكَانَعَٰقِبَةُٱلَّذِينَمِنقَبْلُكَانَأَكْثَرُهُممُّشْرِكِينَ
Reference 30:42Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 30:42:12
كَانَ
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- كَانَ Quranic text
- Simple
- كَانَ
- Without tashkeel
- كان
- Normalised (searchable)
- كان
Position
Computed- Surah
- 30 · The Romans
- Verse
- 30:42
- Word in verse
- 12
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:30:42:12
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- Were
- Transliteration
- kāna
- Root
- ك و نk-w-n
- Lemma
- كانَ
- Part of speech
- Verb (V)
- Features
- tense: PERFperson: 3gender: Mnumber: singularverb_form: 1family: كَان
Sub-word segments
- كَانَstem · V · ك و ن
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 30:42 — 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 →
Say, “Roam the earth, and observe the fate of those who came before. Most of them were idolaters.”Say (O Muhammad, to the disbelievers): Travel in the land, and see the nature of the consequence for those who were before you! Most of them were idolatersSAY: Journey through the land, and see what hath been the end of those who were before you! The greater part of them joined other gods with GodSay, 'Journey on in the land, and behold what was the end of those before you,- most of them were idolatersSame form · 323 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form كَانَ appears 323 times in the corpus.
- كَانَ2:75:6
- كَانَ2:97:3
- كَانَ2:98:2
- كَانَ2:111:7
- كَانَ2:114:16
- كَانَ2:135:13
- كَانَ2:143:37
- كَانَ2:170:16
- كَانَ2:184:4
- كَانَ2:185:19
- كَانَ2:196:19
- كَانَ2:213:1
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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