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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 40:84:10

كُنَّا

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
كُنَّا Quranic text
Simple
كُنَّا
Without tashkeel
كنا
Normalised (searchable)
كنا

Position

Computed
Verse
40:84
Word in verse
10
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:40:84:10

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Transliteration
kunnā
Lemma
كانَ
Part of speech
Verb (V)
Features
tense: PERFperson: 1number: pluralverb_form: 1family: كَان

Sub-word segments

  1. كُstem · V · ك و ن
  2. نَّاsuffix · 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 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 40:84 — 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 →

Then, when they witnessed Our might, they said, “We believe in God alone, and we reject what we used to associate with Him.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Then, when they saw Our doom, they said: We believe in Allah only and reject (all) that we used to associate (with Him)
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
And when they beheld our vengeance they said, "We believe in God alone, and we disbelieve in the deities we once associated with Him
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
And when they saw our violence they said, 'We believe in God alone, and we disbelieve in what we once associated with Him
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 62 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form كُنَّا appears 62 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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