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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 33:21:10

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
33:21
Word in verse
10
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:33:21:10

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
has
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

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 33:21 — 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 have an excellent example in the Messenger of God; for anyone who seeks God and the Last Day, and remembers God frequently
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Verily in the messenger of Allah ye have a good example for him who looketh unto Allah and the Last Day, and remembereth Allah much
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
A noble pattern had ye in God's Apostle, for all who hope in God, and in the latter day, and oft remember God
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Ye had in the Apostle of God a good example for him who hopes for God and the last day, and who remembers God much
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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