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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 41:52:4

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
41:52
Word in verse
4
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:41:52:4

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
it 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 41:52 — 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 →

Say, “Have you considered? If it is from God and you reject it—who is further astray than he who is cutoff and alienated?”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Bethink you: If it is from Allah and ye reject it - Who is further astray than one who is at open feud (with Allah)
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
SAY: What think ye? If this Book be from God and ye believe it not, who will have gone further astray than he who is at a distance from it
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Say, 'Let us see now! if it be from God and ye disbelieve in it, who is more in error than he who is in a remote schism
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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