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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 7:39:5

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
7:39
Word in verse
5
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:7:39:5

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
is
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 · 4 editions

These translations render verse 7:39 — 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 →

The first of them will say to the last of them, “You have no advantage over us, so taste the torment for what you used to earn.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
And the first of them saith unto the last of them: Ye were no whit better than us, so taste the doom for what ye used to earn
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
And the former of them shall say to the latter, "What advantage have ye over us? Taste ye therefore the torment for that which ye have done
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
And the first of them will say unto the last, 'Ye have no preference over us, so taste ye the torment for that which ye have earned
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

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.

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