The letter Qaaf 50:36Quranic text
وَكَمْأَهْلَكْنَاقَبْلَهُممِّنقَرْنٍهُمْأَشَدُّمِنْهُمبَطْشًافَنَقَّبُوا۟فِىٱلْبِلَٰدِهَلْمِنمَّحِيصٍ
Reference 50:36Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 50:36:5
قَرْنٍ
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- قَرْنٍ Quranic text
- Simple
- قَرْنٍ
- Without tashkeel
- قرن
- Normalised (searchable)
- قرن
Position
Computed- Surah
- 50 · The letter Qaaf
- Verse
- 50:36
- Word in verse
- 5
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:50:36:5
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- a generation,
- Transliteration
- qarnin
- Root
- ق ر نq-r-n
- Lemma
- قَرْن
- Part of speech
- Noun (N)
- Features
- case: GENstate: indefinitegender: M
Sub-word segments
- قَرْنٍstem · N · ق ر 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 50:36 — 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 →
How many generations before them, who were more powerful than they, did We destroy? They explored the lands—was there any escapeAnd how many a generation We destroyed before them, who were mightier than these in prowess so that they overran the lands! Had they any place of refuge (when the judgment came)And how many generations have we destroyed ere the days of these (Meccans), mightier than they in strength! Search ye then the land. Is there any escapeHow many a generation have we destroyed before them, mightier than they in prowess! Pass through the land, is there any refugeSame form · 5 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form قَرْنٍ appears 5 times in the corpus.
Root ق ر ن · 36 occurrences
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)The root ق ر ن occurs 36 times across 17 distinct forms.
- قَرِينًا4:38:16
- قَرِينًا4:38:18
- قَرْنٍ6:6:8
- قَرْنًا6:6:30
- ٱلْقُرُونَ10:13:3
- ٱلْقُرُونِ11:116:4
- مُّقَرَّنِينَ14:49:4
- ٱلْقُرُونِ17:17:4
- ٱلْقَرْنَيْنِ18:83:4
- ٱلْقَرْنَيْنِ18:86:16
- ٱلْقَرْنَيْنِ18:94:3
- قَرْنٍ19:74:5
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