The Forgiver 40:74Quranic text
مِندُونِٱللَّهِقَالُوا۟ضَلُّوا۟عَنَّابَللَّمْنَكُننَّدْعُوا۟مِنقَبْلُشَيْـًٔاكَذَٰلِكَيُضِلُّٱللَّهُٱلْكَٰفِرِينَ
Reference 40:74Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 40:74:9
نَكُن
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- نَكُن Quranic text
- Simple
- نَكُن
- Without tashkeel
- نكن
- Normalised (searchable)
- نكن
Position
Computed- Surah
- 40 · The Forgiver
- Verse
- 40:74
- Word in verse
- 9
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:40:74:9
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- we used to
- Transliteration
- nakun
- Root
- ك و نk-w-n
- Lemma
- كانَ
- Part of speech
- Verb (V)
- Features
- tense: IMPFmood: JUSperson: 1number: pluralverb_form: 1family: كَان
Sub-word segments
- نَكُنstem · 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 40:74 — 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 →
Instead of God?” They will say, “They have abandoned us. In fact, we were praying to nothing before.” Thus God sends the disbelievers astrayBeside Allah? They say: They have failed us; but we used not to pray to anything before. Thus doth Allah send astray the disbelievers (in His guidance)They shall say, "They have vanished away from us. Yea, it was nought on which we called heretofore." Thus God leadeth the unbelievers astraybeside God?' They shall say, 'They have strayed away from us; nay, we did not call before upon anything!' - thus does God lead the misbelievers astraySame form · 4 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form نَكُن appears 4 times in the corpus.
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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