كَانَ

Uthmani (as written)

كَانَ Quranic text

Simple

كَانَ

Without tashkeel

كان

Normalised (searchable)

كان

Surah

54 · The Moon

Verse

54:16

Word in verse

2

Token id

quran:tanzil-uthmani:54:16:2

Gloss

was

Transliteration

kāna

Root

ك و نk-w-n

Lemma

كانَ

Part of speech

Verb (V)

Features

tense: PERFperson: 3gender: Mnumber: singularverb_form: 1family: كَان

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.

These translations render verse 54:16 — 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 →

This exact written form كَانَ appears 323 times in the corpus.

• كَانَ2:75:6
• كَانَ2:97:3
• كَانَ2:98:2
• كَانَ2:111:7
• كَانَ2:114:16
• كَانَ2:135:13
• كَانَ2:143:37
• كَانَ2:170:16
• كَانَ2:184:4
• كَانَ2:185:19
• كَانَ2:196:19
• كَانَ2:213:1

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

No published investigation cites this word yet. When one does, it appears here — the evidence links back to the argument.