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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 49:5:7

لَكَانَ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
49:5
Word in verse
7
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:49:5:7

Morphology

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

Sub-word segments

  1. لَprefix · EMPH
  2. كَانَstem · 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 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 49:5 — 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 →

Had they remained patient until you came out to them, it would have been better for them. But God is Forgiving and Merciful
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And if they had had patience till thou camest forth unto them, it had been better for them. And Allah is Forgiving, Merciful
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
But if they wait patiently till thou come forth to them, it were far better for them. But God is Indulgent, Merciful
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
but did they wait until thou come out to them, it were better for them;- but God is forgiving, merciful
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 6 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form لَكَانَ appears 6 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.

See the full root page for ك و ن

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