The Clans 33:15Quranic text
وَلَقَدْكَانُوا۟عَٰهَدُوا۟ٱللَّهَمِنقَبْلُلَايُوَلُّونَٱلْأَدْبَٰرَوَكَانَعَهْدُٱللَّهِمَسْـُٔولًا
Reference 33:15Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 33:15:2
كَانُوا۟
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- كَانُوا۟ Quranic text
- Simple
- كَانُوا
- Without tashkeel
- كانوا
- Normalised (searchable)
- كانوا
Position
Computed- Surah
- 33 · The Clans
- Verse
- 33:15
- Word in verse
- 2
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:33:15:2
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- they had
- Transliteration
- kānū
- Root
- ك و نk-w-n
- Lemma
- كانَ
- Part of speech
- Verb (V)
- Features
- tense: PERFperson: 3gender: Mnumber: pluralverb_form: 1family: كَان
Sub-word segments
- كَانُstem · V · ك و ن
- وا۟suffix · 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 1.1How translators rendered it
Translation · 4 editionsThese translations render verse 33:15 — 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 →
Although they had made a pledged to God, in the past, that they will not turn their backs. A pledge to God is a responsibilityAnd verily they had already sworn unto Allah that they would not turn their backs (to the foe). An oath to Allah must be answered forThey had before pledged themselves to God that they would not turn their backs; and a pledge given to God must be enquired ofThey had covenanted with God before, that they would not turn their backs; and God's covenant shall be enquired ofSame form · 210 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form كَانُوا۟ appears 210 times in the corpus.
- كَانُوا۟2:10:11
- كَانُوا۟2:16:10
- كَانُوا۟2:59:17
- كَانُوا۟2:61:47
- كَانُوا۟2:102:73
- كَانُوا۟2:103:11
- كَانُوا۟2:113:29
- كَانُوا۟2:134:14
- كَانُوا۟2:140:9
- كَانُوا۟2:141:14
- كَانُوا۟2:142:10
- كَانُوا۟3:24:14
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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