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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 4:134:2

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
4:134
Word in verse
2
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:4:134:2

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

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 4:134 — 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 →

Whoever desires the reward of this world—with God is the reward of this world and the next. God is All-Hearing, All-Seeing
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Whoso desireth the reward of the world, (let him know that) with Allah is the reward of the world and the Hereafter. Allah is ever Hearer, Seer
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
If any one desire the reward of this world, yet with God is the reward of this world and of the next! And God Heareth, Beholdeth
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
He who wishes for a reward in this world,- with God is the reward of this world and of the next, and God both hears and sees
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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