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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 33:54:8

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
33:54
Word in verse
8
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:33:54:8

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
is
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 33:54 — 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 →

Whether you declare a thing, or hide it, God is Aware of all things
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Whether ye divulge a thing or keep it hidden, lo! Allah is ever Knower of all things
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Whether ye bring a matter to the light or hide it, God truly hath knowledge of all things
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
If ye display a thing or conceal it, verily, God all things doth know
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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