The Heights 7:5Quranic text
فَمَاكَانَدَعْوَىٰهُمْإِذْجَآءَهُمبَأْسُنَآإِلَّآأَنقَالُوٓا۟إِنَّاكُنَّاظَٰلِمِينَ
Reference 7:5Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 7:5:11
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
- 7 · The Heights
- Verse
- 7:5
- Word in verse
- 11
- Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:7:5:11
Morphology
Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)- Gloss
- 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 7:5 — 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 →
When Our might came upon them, their only cry was, “We were indeed wrongdoers.”No plea had they, when Our terror came unto them, save that they said: Lo! We were wrong-doersAnd what was their cry when our wrath reached them, but to say, "Verily, we have been impiouswas only to say, 'Verily, we were unjustSame form · 62 occurrences
ComputedThis exact written form كُنَّا appears 62 times in the corpus.
- كُنَّا4:97:11
- كُنَّا6:23:11
- كُنَّا6:156:11
- 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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