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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 56:90:3

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
56:90
Word in verse
3
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:56:90:3

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
he was
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 · 5 editions

These translations render verse 56:90 — 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 if he is one of those on the Right
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And if he is of those on the right hand
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Yea, for him who shall be of the people of the right hand
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Or, if he be of the fellows of the right
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain
and as for if he was from companionses of the right hand

Generated from a table of word-by-word decisions, not written as prose. Arabic word order is preserved, so it reads stiffly and is not a substitute for a translation written by a person. Every verse is rendered, but the whole remains under review: words marked as judgement rest on weaker evidence than the rest and are flagged in place. No tafsir, hadith or existing translation was consulted.

Translation · QuranBench (generated) — not a human translationCC BY-SA 4.0How this was produced

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.

See the full root page for ك و ن

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