Quran glossary · draft

كن

feminine-plural deictic address

A bound demonstrative element orienting the deictic expression toward a feminine-plural addressee group without filling a participant slot.

Lexical scope

Scope: semantic unit · Occurrences: 1

Forms: كُنَّ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

12:32

قَالَتْ فَذَٰلِكُنَّ ٱلَّذِى لُمْتُنَّنِى فِيهِ وَلَقَدْ رَٰوَدتُّهُۥ عَن نَّفْسِهِۦ فَٱسْتَعْصَمَ وَلَئِن لَّمْ يَفْعَلْ مَآ ءَامُرُهُۥ لَيُسْجَنَنَّ وَلَيَكُونًا مِّنَ ٱلصَّٰغِرِينَ

Where other meanings fail

second-person feminine plural referent

12:32

قَالَتْ فَذَٰلِكُنَّ ٱلَّذِى لُمْتُنَّنِى فِيهِ وَلَقَدْ رَٰوَدتُّهُۥ عَن نَّفْسِهِۦ فَٱسْتَعْصَمَ وَلَئِن لَّمْ يَفْعَلْ مَآ ءَامُرُهُۥ لَيُسْجَنَنَّ وَلَيَكُونًا مِّنَ ٱلصَّٰغِرِينَ

Alternative: second-person feminine plural referent

Research rendering: feminine-plural deictic address

Substitution fails here: second-person feminine plural referent would impose the first unit's predicate on a segment whose frozen form and Quran-internal construction require feminine-plural deictic address. This is the concrete contradiction supporting the lexeme partition.