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The corpus record — Arabic

كَانَ

kaana

1 kaAna * He or it was. A verb of the class called incomplete, ( naAqiSN ) because, with the agent which it comprises, or to which it relates, it cannot constitute a complete proposition; i. e., non-attributive. The other verbs of this class are, Zal~a A^aDoHaY A^amosaY A^aSobaHa SaAra , maA daAma m

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1 kaAna * He or it was. A verb of the class called incomplete, ( naAqiSN ) because, with the agent which it comprises, or to which it relates, it cannot constitute a complete proposition; i. e., non-attributive. The other verbs of this class are, Zal~a A^aDoHaY A^amosaY A^aSobaHa SaAra , maA daAma m

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Quran text from Tanzil (tanzil.net), distributed verbatim per its license. Morphological facts derived from the Quranic Arabic Corpus (corpus.quran.com, Kais Dukes), stated as facts with source credit. Dictionary senses from Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon (1863-93, public domain), via the Perseus Digital Library.