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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 41:20:11

كَانُوا۟

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
كَانُوا۟ Quranic text
Simple
كَانُوا
Without tashkeel
كانوا
Normalised (searchable)
كانوا

Position

Computed
Verse
41:20
Word in verse
11
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:41:20:11

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Transliteration
kānū
Lemma
كانَ
Part of speech
Verb (V)
Features
tense: PERFperson: 3gender: Mnumber: pluralverb_form: 1family: كَان

Sub-word segments

  1. كَانُstem · V · ك و ن
  2. وا۟suffix · 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 41:20 — 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 →

Until, when they have reached it, their hearing, and their sight, and their skins will testify against them regarding what they used to do
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Till, when they reach it, their ears and their eyes and their skins testify against them as to what they used to do
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Until when they reach it, their ears and their eyes and their skins shall bear witness against them of their deeds
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
until when they come to it, their hearing and their eyesight and their skins shall bear witness against them of that which they have done
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 210 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form كَانُوا۟ appears 210 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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