See also: azoara

English edit

Etymology edit

From Medieval Latin azoara.

Noun edit

Azoara (plural Azoaras)

  1. (obsolete, Islam) sura (chapter of the Qurʾān)
    • 1626, Samuel Purchas, Purchas His Pilgrimage; Or, Relations of the World and the Religions [] , page 251:
      Now let us see the Doctrine contained in this booke [] naming the Chapter or Azoara, where the Reader may finde each sentence.
    • 1693, John Edwards, A Discourse concerning the Authority, Stile and Perfection of the Old and New Testament [] , pages 408–409:
      Lastly, as we have the joint assent of Jews and Gentiles, so of Mahomet himself, in the Azoara's of his Law, which give suffrage to the Evangelical Writings.
    • 1814, Hugo Grotius, translated by Spencer Madan, An English Translation of the Six Books of Hugo Grotius, on the Truth of Christianity [] , page 404:
      Mahomet frequently upbraids the Christians with these controversies; particularly in Azoara xxvi. xxxii.