The Cattle 6:156Quranic text
أَنتَقُولُوٓا۟إِنَّمَآأُنزِلَٱلْكِتَٰبُعَلَىٰطَآئِفَتَيْنِمِنقَبْلِنَاوَإِنكُنَّاعَندِرَاسَتِهِمْلَغَٰفِلِينَ
Reference 6:156Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 6:156:11
كُنَّا
Forms
Computed · derived from the Uthmani text- Uthmani (as written)
- كُنَّا Quranic text
- Simple
- كُنَّا
- Without tashkeel
- كنا
- Normalised (searchable)
- كنا
Position
Computed- Surah
- 6 · The Cattle
- Verse
- 6:156
- Word in verse
- 11
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:6:156:11
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- we were
- Transliteration
- kunnā
- Root
- ك و نk-w-n
- Lemma
- كانَ
- Part of speech
- Verb (V)
- Features
- tense: PERFperson: 1number: pluralverb_form: 1family: كَان
Sub-word segments
- كُstem · V · ك و ن
- نَّاsuffix · 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 6:156 — 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 →
Lest you say, “The Scripture was revealed to two parties before us, and we were unaware of their teachings.”Lest ye should say: The Scripture was revealed only to two sects before us, and we in sooth were unaware of what they readLest ye should say, "The Scriptures were indeed sent down only unto two peoples before us, but we were not able to go deep into their studiesLest ye say, 'The Book was only sent down to two sects before us; verily, we, for what they read, care naughtSame form · 62 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form كُنَّا appears 62 times in the corpus.
- كُنَّا4:97:11
- كُنَّا6:23:11
- كُنَّا7:5:11
- كُنَّا7:7:5
- كُنَّا7:43:18
- كُنَّا7:53:29
- كُنَّا7:88:20
- كُنَّا7:113:9
- كُنَّا7:172:23
- كُنَّا9:65:5
- كُنَّا10:29:7
- كُنَّا10:61:15
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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