Kaf-Waw-Nun
1 word from this root family
Kaf-Waw-Nun (ك-و-ن) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: kāna (to be / was).
In the Quran, words built on this root occur 1,390 times in 1,176 verses, across 86 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:10. The form كَانَ (to be / was) accounts for 1,358 of them.
| Word | Meaning | Type | In the Quran | Taught in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
كَانَ kāna | to be / was | verb, A1 | 1,358× | Action Verbs - Movement & Travel |
“In the Quran” counts every occurrence of that dictionary form, in any of its senses.
فِى قُلُوبِهِم مَّرَضٌ فَزَادَهُمُ ٱللَّهُ مَرَضًا ۖ وَلَهُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌۢ بِمَا كَانُوا۟ يَكْذِبُونَIn their hearts is a disease, and Allah increaseth their disease. A painful doom is theirs because they lie.
وَإِنْ أَرَدتُّمُ ٱسْتِبْدَالَ زَوْجٍ مَّكَانَ زَوْجٍ وَءَاتَيْتُمْ إِحْدَىٰهُنَّ قِنطَارًا فَلَا تَأْخُذُوا۟ مِنْهُ شَيْـًٔا ۚ أَتَأْخُذُونَهُۥ بُهْتَـٰنًا وَإِثْمًا مُّبِينًاAnd if ye wish to exchange one wife for another and ye have given unto one of them a sum of money (however great), take nothing from it. Would ye take it by the way of calumny and open wrong?
قُلْ يَـٰقَوْمِ ٱعْمَلُوا۟ عَلَىٰ مَكَانَتِكُمْ إِنِّى عَامِلٌ ۖ فَسَوْفَ تَعْلَمُونَ مَن تَكُونُ لَهُۥ عَـٰقِبَةُ ٱلدَّارِ ۗ إِنَّهُۥ لَا يُفْلِحُ ٱلظَّـٰلِمُونَSay (O Muhammad): O my people! Work according to your power. Lo! I too am working. Thus ye will come to know for which of us will be the happy sequel. Lo! the wrong-doers will not be successful.
Arabic text: Tanzil Quran Text (Uthmani 1.1), CC BY 3.0, tanzil.net. English: Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930), public domain, via Project Gutenberg. Counts and verse choice: Quranic Arabic Corpus morphology data (corpus.quran.com).
Hollow verb (Form I). Past: kāna, Present: yakūnu. One of the most important verbs in Arabic; used for past tense of 'to be' and in compound tenses.