kin~N * A place of retreat or concealment; such as a cave, and an excavated house or chamber: (Beyd, xvi. 83:) see bar~N . ― -b2- kin~N The shelter of a wall: see difo'N . ― -b3- A thing that serves for veiling, covering, or protecting. (S, * Msb, * K.) See Zil~N , where I have thus rendered it.
The corpus record — Arabic
كُنَّ
kunna
kin~N * A place of retreat or concealment; such as a cave, and an excavated house or chamber: (Beyd, xvi. 83:) see bar~N . ― -b2- kin~N The shelter of a wall: see difo'N . ― -b3- A thing that serves for veiling, covering, or protecting. (S, * Msb, * K.) See Zil~N , where I have thus rendered it.
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Where it lives
- The Quran 12 · 0.94/10k
What it meant — Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon
In the wild
- كُنَّ Quran 12:28 (Yusuf 28)
- كُنَّ Quran 12:28 (Yusuf 28)
- كُنَّ Quran 12:51 (Yusuf 51)
- كُنَّ Quran 33:28 (Al-Ahzab 28)
- كُنَّ Quran 33:28 (Al-Ahzab 28)
- كُنَّ Quran 33:29 (Al-Ahzab 29)
6 of 12 attestations shown.
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.