The Star 53:52Quranic text
وَقَوْمَنُوحٍمِّنقَبْلُإِنَّهُمْكَانُوا۟هُمْأَظْلَمَوَأَطْغَىٰ
Reference 53:52Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 53:52:6
كَانُوا۟
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- كَانُوا۟ Quranic text
- Simple
- كَانُوا
- Without tashkeel
- كانوا
- Normalised (searchable)
- كانوا
Position
Computed- Surah
- 53 · The Star
- Verse
- 53:52
- Word in verse
- 6
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:53:52:6
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- were
- Transliteration
- kānū
- Root
- ك و نk-w-n
- Lemma
- كانَ
- Part of speech
- Verb (V)
- Features
- tense: PERFperson: 3gender: Mnumber: pluralverb_form: 1family: كَان
Sub-word segments
- كَانُstem · V · ك و ن
- 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 1.1How translators rendered it
Translation · 4 editionsThese translations render verse 53:52 — 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 →
And the people of Noah before that; for they were most unjust and most oppressiveAnd the folk of Noah aforetime, Lo! they were more unjust and more rebelliousAnd before them the people of Noah who were most wicked and most perverseand the people of Noah before them,- verily, they were most unjust and outrageousSame form · 210 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form كَانُوا۟ appears 210 times in the corpus.
- كَانُوا۟2:10:11
- كَانُوا۟2:16:10
- كَانُوا۟2:59:17
- كَانُوا۟2:61:47
- كَانُوا۟2:102:73
- كَانُوا۟2:103:11
- كَانُوا۟2:113:29
- كَانُوا۟2:134:14
- كَانُوا۟2:140:9
- كَانُوا۟2:141:14
- كَانُوا۟2:142:10
- كَانُوا۟3:24:14
Root ك و ن · 1390 occurrences
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)The root ك و ن occurs 1390 times across 121 distinct forms.
- كَانُوا۟2:10:11
- كَانُوا۟2:16:10
- كُنتُمْ2:23:2
- كُنتُمْ2:23:19
- وَكُنتُمْ2:28:4
- كُنتُمْ2:31:14
- كُنتُمْ2:33:21
- وَكَانَ2:34:11
- فَتَكُونَا2:35:16
- كَانَا2:36:6
- تَكُونُوٓا۟2:41:8
- كَانُوٓا۟2:57:16
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